Example sentences of "[noun sg] stuck to [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nuclear industry stuck to its claims that cancer clusters near their plants were ‘ coincidence . ’ |
| 2 | I calls her Beattie she ought to have the bleeding phone stuck to her earhole . |
| 3 | Resource investigator resource investigator got a phone stuck to his ear . |
| 4 | Despite these developments , the Labour Party leadership stuck to its public position that the SDLP is a ‘ sister party ’ . |
| 5 | Spilt drink stuck to my bare toes , and when I tried to wipe it off , it changed into blood . |
| 6 | Barring the nightly message of encouragement captain Kardar stuck to his bathroom mirror , there were no instructions from the skipper . |
| 7 | ‘ I ca n't believe — ’ She bit back the words and took a breath and moved forward smoothly , a sort of professional smile stuck to her face . |
| 8 | The icy metal of the stirrup stuck to my fingers and the sour breath of the horse was hot upon my face . |
| 9 | Far from moderating his condemnation of Mansell 's start-line performance in Estoril the previous week , the world champion stuck to his allegation that Mansell had deliberately tried to push him off the track . |
| 10 | This book ought to have a free razor-blade stuck to its front cover . |
| 11 | You sometimes got bits of cat fur stuck to your toffee-apple . |
| 12 | A crumb of chocolate stuck to her lip , where Coffin watched it slowly melt as he spoke to her . |
| 13 | Had the National Government stuck to its professed intentions and dissolved , after about six weeks , into its component parts , with the ensuing general election bring fought by the parties , the political landscape might not have been changed as much as in fact it was . |
| 14 | THE minibus ferrying the Cambridge Boat Race crew around has a message stuck to its windscreen , probably more for the benefit of its occupants than as an exhortation to other motorists . |
| 15 | The following were among the findings reported at a conference in Anchorage , Alaska : — brain damage in seals similar to that found in people who die from solvent abuse ; this would have disoriented the animals and affected basic physiological functions like breathing ; it is suspected that many seals drowned , but because dead seals sink an accurate assessment of deaths has not been possible ; — the disappearance of a group of killer whales that had lived in the sound , possibly also due to the " solvent abuse effect " ; — deaths among sea otters not only from hypothermia ( because oil stuck to their fur destroyed its insulating properties ) but from emphysema caused by breathing in toxic fumes and from liver and kidney damage caused by ingesting oil ; — failure to breed among many species of birds since the accident , either because of the death rate within colonies at the time ( in the case of guillemots ) or because continued exposure to oil-polluted food sources is preventing reproduction ; — death tolls of up to 40 per cent for eggs laid by salmon , herring and other fish , and deformities and withered muscles among fish that did hatch . |
| 16 | It was already empty , apart from the odd slice of orange stuck to its sides , and she decided to try the kitchen . |
| 17 | There was a moment later when I found a willow leaf stuck to her still-moist haunches . |