Example sentences of "tried to hold on to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her senses were in a whirl but she tried to hold on to her sanity . |
| 2 | She tried to hold on to the heady rapture that was sweeping her along like a river in flood . |
| 3 | Not that he tried to hold on to her and not that Travis appeared to think there was anything out of the way in the two of them embracing — she gathered she had their engagement to thank for that . |
| 4 | When that happened , the others , those whose canoes sank , tried to hold on to the canoes that were still afloat . |
| 5 | I was going on with it , all the bumps were okay but when I was actually inside the building again I hung on to GrandPat to get to the steps but my hand slipped so I was going round with the current so I tried to hold on to the orange thing that they had put there but I slipped off that and I kept on going round and the lifeguard gave erm me and somebody else a hoop and we both grabbed onto it |