Example sentences of "[noun sg] hold on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember my father giving me specific advice on just how he climbed the crux section of the corner crack above ; ‘ When you get to the steep bit — you 'll know it when you get there — just face right and use the square cut holds on the edge . |
| 2 | In order to keep a safe distance , one waits while the light holds on red . |
| 3 | As recorded in the minutes of the meeting of the Heads of Department held on the 11th March 1981 , reaction to this document was anxious and ambivalent , with several threads of concern emerging . |
| 4 | T The Queen 's only daughter married for the second time in a low-key ceremony held on the Balmoral estate this month . |
| 5 | At a torch-lit ceremony held on the regimental parade ground two nights later , we were given our képis . |
| 6 | The idea was they were after the records which the college held on all students . |
| 7 | I ended up lying in the scrubby grass at the bottom of the hill , my knuckles white as I throttled the rabbit , swinging it in front of my face with its neck held on the thin black line of rubber tubing , now tied like a knot on a black string . |
| 8 | In the Virginia caucus held on April 11-13 , he won 52 per cent of the delegates , while 36 per cent were uncommitted and 12 per cent went to Brown . |
| 9 | A number of measures were agreed a meeting of Council held on 14th March 1992 as a comprehensive strategy to increase CPRW 's overall membership to 4,000 ( 0.14% of the population of Wales ) . |
| 10 | A number of measures were agreed a meeting of Council held on 14th March 1992 as a comprehensive strategy to increase CPRW 's overall membership to 4,000 ( 0.14% of the population of Wales ) . |
| 11 | At the meeting of the Regional Council held on 4 August 1993 , the undernoted motion was approved : — |
| 12 | Thank you for your letter dated 13 September 1992 concerning items raised at the meeting of Kirknewton Community Council held on 9 September 1992 . |
| 13 | The PUP won the local elections to the Belize City Council held on Dec. 7 , 1989 , securing all nine seats . |
| 14 | I move the minutes of the meeting of the Council held on the twenty first of May 1991 be signed as a correct record . |
| 15 | I move that the minutes of the meeting of the Council held on the sixteenth of July be signed as a correct record . |
| 16 | A charity dance held on the night of the theft was attended by over 300 people . |
| 17 | Gen. Dao Dinh Luyen , 64 , Deputy Defence Minister , was appointed Chief of General Staff of the Vietnam People 's Army , according to a communiqué on the Council of State session held on Sept. 9-10 . |
| 18 | Thank you Next item , Right agenda item three , notes of the Joint Consultative Committee held on the twenty-first of October , nineteen ninety-three , paper B. If I could just say a few words . |
| 19 | What follows is a meeting of the Wiltshire County Council 's Policy and Resources Committee held on Tuesday twenty-fifth January 1994 . |
| 20 | Despite being very close to an agreement with NALGO it was disappointing for the Special Finance Committee held on the 7 October 1992 to learn that the latest package offer had been rejected and to find that a number of employees had taken industrial action to lobby the meeting . |
| 21 | Deng did not make a public appearance at the congress itself , but attended the first plenum of the new central committee held on Oct. 19 . |
| 22 | Gen. Khamtay Siphandon , the Premier , was elected as chair of the LPRP at a special meeting of the party 's central committee held on Nov. 24 . |
| 23 | Notes on the Meeting of the N.A.F.D. International Committee held on 5th May 1993 |
| 24 | His tall figure , spear held on his shoulder , strides back across the savannah until the moonlight gives out and he is consumed by the landscape . |
| 25 | Agriculture minister John Gummer revealed his intentions in a meeting held on Tuesday with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds . |
| 26 | However , I was disappointed at the reply she gave to my questions at a public open meeting held on April 7th , when I suggested that following many and varied discussions in different regions of the country , there was extreme concern in the non-action by the government in the matter of the vast difference in the value of imports from different countries , in particular Japan , as against the value of the imports they take from this country . |
| 27 | Good evidence of the use and meaning of the term is contained in a report , in the second issue of The Veterinarian , of a meeting held on 22 July 1829 to consider the method of examination adopted at the College . |
| 28 | Both Ian Allan , chairman of AIR , and I have felt for some time that this division was not helpful to the railway movement and it was agreed at the ARPS Council meeting held on 25th April ( which I missed due to the pleasure of attending my secretary 's wedding ) and the AIR Board meeting two days later that we adopt a proposal put forward by David Madden , a member of ARPS Council and director of operations on the North Norfolk Railway , to set up a joint committee to handle affairs of mutual interest , which we agreed should be called in good railway tradition : ‘ The Railway Clearing House ’ . |
| 29 | At a general meeting held on the evening of 13 February , it was reported that there were 475 non-union journeymen at work in Edinburgh and that " additional hands were daily arriving " . |
| 30 | Condition 2 above is itself some evidence of this , but , in particular , the minutes of a meeting held on 13 January 1983 between representatives of Kent County Council , Gillingham Borough Council and the ports authority record that an estimate of three to four hundred lorries per day was given . |