Example sentences of "[pers pn] hold the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet I hold the town close to my heart , for it is the birthplace of many a dream and memory : it is winter , it was always winter and cold , I am alone on the beach building a secret world , a sand landscape of hills , mountains , ravines with bridges , towns and harbours . |
| 2 | Mr Straw stated quite unambiguously that ‘ I hold the view that citizenship should be taught in every school , to every child , in a systematic way . ’ |
| 3 | I hold the rod parallel to the ground over my right shoulder , with the butt pointing at the target , glance at my rod-tip and tackle to make sure everything is free , then look at the target and keep my eye on it while I push with my right hand and pull with my left . |
| 4 | Nothing happens for quite a while , then the rod-tip trembles , so I hold the rod in one hand and the line in the other . |
| 5 | ‘ If I feel the tension building up behind my temples , I hold the crystal tightly in my right hand and I can feel the pain slowly seeping away . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I hold the instrument , ’ he added , when the driver made as if to grasp it . |
| 7 | I hold the book |
| 8 | He 's so good , I hold the mares when he mates with them . |
| 9 | ( Because I do n't tie the yarn to the machine , I hold the end instead , beneath the machine , for the first few rows , while maintaining enough tension to help the edge stitch ( knit . ) |
| 10 | So long as I hold the office of Home Secretary , I shall give no countenance to the view that they should not be prevented from being such a danger . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The Nordic Final is being held in Finland on a track where I hold the track record , ’ said Rickardsson . |
| 12 | I hold the view very strongly — and I know I have been criticised for it — that when a government has not got great experience , is a minority government , it is essential if you can possibly support it that it should be able to speak with a strong voice to the countries of the world . |
| 13 | Before Ma left me to collect my new sister from Maternity I would not have been able to execute this upward stretch unaided , now I hold the pose perfectly , without touching the chair back . |
| 14 | I hold the splendid daylight in my hands Inwardly grateful for a lovely day . |
| 15 | He runs the match beneath while I hold the tube in my mouth , in the light of the desert green neon , with Billie Holiday oozing from the stereo . |
| 16 | It explains in part why I hold the political philosophies I do . |
| 17 | I hold the little white bottle . |
| 18 | The only powers that control fate are the Gods , and so when Tamburlaine mentions in a conversation which he has with Theridamas that he controls his own fate , this implies that he believes he is a God : ‘ I hold the fates bound fast in iron chains , and with mine hand turn fortune 's wheel about ’ . |
| 19 | I hold the bunch stiff as a tennis racket waiting for a serve . |
| 20 | I hold the police responsible for my son 's death |
| 21 | I hold the lead . |
| 22 | May I hold the offer over until to-morrow morning ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Shall I hold the horse ? ’ she asked . |
| 24 | Shall I hold the cup . |
| 25 | A fortnight later from Bradford , another set of solicitors rang up , explained that they understood the circumstances , said Look c could I hold the stuff there and what was I going to charge for the storage etcetera , er and they would be going to have to get an affidavit from this lady in Australia at some stage in order to give er him the chance to have the stuff back . |
| 26 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 27 | I held the door open for him . |
| 28 | Fox red , moonbeam silver , I held the precious strands like a pilgrim sips water from a miraculous spring . |
| 29 | Before I visited Small 's farm , I held the view that shooting foxes was always both odious and wrong . |
| 30 | Suddenly amused , I held the stiff door open for him and bowed languidly from the waist with an exquisite fin-de-siècle sarcasm , a little flourish of an unquenched spirit . |