Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] hold " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Always put a knowledgeable and reliable person at the tail , and remind them only to hold the tail down if that is necessary to move the glider easily . ) |
| 2 | Of course , apocryphal stories only proliferate about someone widely held in great affection ; and in Runcorn 's case the reason for the affection is not hard to find . |
| 3 | But this is not surprising , since I basically held an a priori ethical position . |
| 4 | To expect SARFU to squeeze first-world profits from the new third-world South Africans , when the 1991 World Cup did n't achieve the expected profits — even from first-world venues — would , in my long held view , not only be unrealistic but immoral . |
| 5 | God I do love you , Pippa , I just hold on to that . |
| 6 | Could I just hold it there ? |
| 7 | I did n't know what to say , so I just held out my hand and she heaved me up . |
| 8 | Anyway , I just held her , and it felt like she 'd broken , could n't take any more , then she kissed me . |
| 9 | I just held her quietly until she calmed down . |
| 10 | I was n't really afraid , I just held onto my Mum 's hand . |
| 11 | ‘ Prince Philip was interested to her that I already held the bronze and silver awards and asked me whether I had enjoyed myself going for gold , ’ said Christine . |
| 12 | ‘ The truth is , it tears you apart to think of me being with Marianne night after night , making love to her , holding her in my arms the way I once held you . ’ |
| 13 | I always hold it , hold it , pick it up , turn it and then nail it . ’ |
| 14 | I always held that view and did all I could to press for an election before Christmas in order that we might get a majority large enough to stand the racket . " |
| 15 | It scares me a bit , but I still hold onto her hands . |
| 16 | We never came to any agreement , but I can say for my part that I developed fairly firm ideas of my own on the matter during the course of such discussions , and they are by and large the beliefs I still hold today . |
| 17 | One Harvard client is on record as saying : " I still hold 10000 shares in the Harvard quoted company BURAD Holdings , and , since I have lost all confidence in the dealing room at Harvard , I am still puzzling over how to dispose of the shares without an inordinate amount of emotional effort . " |
| 18 | Despite my negative attitude towards the direct anthropological study of one 's own society , I still hold that all the anthropologist 's most important insights stem from introspection . |
| 19 | Immediately the hon. Gentleman and I entered the House — on the same day — I formed the view that he was a jerk , and I still hold that view . |
| 20 | Although I still held my card of the Transport and General Workers . |
| 21 | ‘ But as I still held the same views it seemed pointless . ’ |
| 22 | In the previous chapter I deliberately held open the question whether Zande witchcraft should be classified as ‘ religion ’ or as something different . |
| 23 | It was tempting to ask , in view of his once held political ambitions , whether he had ever regretted staying in business . |
| 24 | I console myself by reflecting that not only do I have a higher lifetime-best break than he does ( 34–30 ) , I also hold several other table records . |
| 25 | For the moment , I also hold my peace . |
| 26 | ‘ My husband and I both held Firearms Certificates . |
| 27 | A proper understanding of the electron and other spin-1/2 particles did not come until 1928 , when a theory was proposed by Paul Dirac , who later was elected to the Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics at Cambridge ( the same professorship that Newton had once held and that I now hold ) . |
| 28 | I have sent round a briefing paper , and rather than go right through that , what I 'd just like to do is to highlight two or three things about myself and about the post that I now hold , and I would be pleased to answer any questions that you might have during the next two or three minutes . |
| 29 | What has all this grand talk about moral universals got to do with the micro-scale empirical sociology which I originally held up as the characteristic of my kind of social anthropology ? |
| 30 | In my love-making I simply held him close and let the rest take over , rounded off with a simple kiss . |