Example sentences of "have be clinging to " in BNC.

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1 The girl , who had been clinging to a third-floor window ledge , fell just as firemen were about to grab her .
2 The vote of no confidence was a final humiliation for a government that had been clinging to office .
3 But suddenly all that rational thinking that she had been clinging to all night was gone , gone in a puff of smoke , gone in one long and loud roll of thunder .
4 ‘ So that 's why you 've been clinging to me like a leech all these months .
5 " She 'll part with one of those diamonds she 's been clinging to . "
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