Example sentences of "to hang on [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't indulge in the verbosity of the amateur , or try to hang on to an inappropriate bit of writing just because you wrote it . |
| 2 | Both Civic Forum and Solidarity want to hang on to the one-nation sense of anti-communism ( and anti-Sovietism ) . |
| 3 | Though Lowe tried to hang on to the original concept , RSGB 's figures finally killed off the ‘ Sunday Guardian ’ approach . |
| 4 | Eventually she found that apart from keeping up with friends , the answer was not to hang on to the old life but to start new involvements of her own , by finding first part-time paid work and later a voluntary job doing book-keeping and accounting . |
| 5 | Bevin and the Foreign Office were on occasion more sensitive to this issue — but in Bevin 's case this produced the bizarre proposal to hang on in the Middle East from a base in inhospitable ( but British ) territory 2,000 miles from the Suez Canal , Even Bullock is forced to concede that Bevin was ‘ obsessed ’ with the Middle East , an obsession he never seems to have lost . |