Example sentences of "[verb] hold the [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The parish church is dedicated to St John the Baptist , whose feast is the 24th June , and it was decided to hold the event on the nearest Saturday . |
| 2 | She caused a few titters when she said she 'd held the court in the church for the convenience of all parties . |
| 3 | Here he was increasingly concerned with the chemistry of the brain , which he believed held the key to the treatment of mental illness . |
| 4 | ‘ We were initially going to hold the meeting in the boardroom here , ’ Prue says , ‘ but when the numbers got up to 40 , we thought ‘ help ’ . |
| 5 | In 1538 the Earl of Sussex claimed to hold the reversion of the Lord Stewardship . |
| 6 | Figure 2.4 has been drawn to show that , as the partial remainder is shifted left , the vacated positions can be used to hold the bits of the quotient . |
| 7 | These pins are used to hold the coils on the board ; snip off the odd pin on that side of the bobbin which has three pins . |
| 8 | He should haev held the children at the scene and called the police . |
| 9 | ‘ Concerning censorship in normal times , Cameroun appears to hold the record in the details of its application . |
| 10 | He seems to hold the writings of the ‘ popes ’ of postmodernism , Baudrillard and Lyotard , in ill-disguised contempt . |
| 11 | In the light of this fact it seems possible to suggest that those authors who subscribe to the former view do so because in later times it would have been only in the rarest of circumstances that one would have held the kadilik after the kazaskerlik . |
| 12 | The Collector and half a dozen Sikhs were still managing to hold the door into the drawing-room , but only just . |
| 13 | Grains of sand stick to this fluid which helps to hold the skin to the soil , thereby helping the pupating worm-lion to extricate itself . |
| 14 | However , if players then attempt to hold the ball within the maul , the whistle will be blown . |
| 15 | He managed to hold the ball on the putting surface and , two putts later , the last one from six feet , he was on his knees in triumph , or was it supplication ? |
| 16 | On only one point is there evidence which would seem to give some basis for dating the competition , namely a marginal note in Mecdi 's article on Hocazade which states that the latter was kadi of Edirne the position to which he went alter holding the professorship of the Zeyrek medrese — in 871/1466–7 , " a few documents written by him " having been seen . |
| 17 | Forces of the rebel Sudanese People 's Liberation Army ( SPLA ) which remained under the command of Col. John Garang continued to hold the area around the towns of Torit and Kapoeta , in the south of Equatoria state . |
| 18 | She had to hold the frame of the door . |
| 19 | I only had to hold the end of the string , while my friend went round the circle , so I thought I 'd have a rest , and so … |
| 20 | I remember trying to hold the umbrella against the rain and the wind was gusting over 40 miles per hour . |
| 21 | The French 95th Regiment which had held the village on the disastrous day of February 25th was withdrawn , decimated , from the battle . |
| 22 | We had held the reception at the melin , and I had conceived the pretty idea of decorating it throughout with wild flowers . |
| 23 | Moran stood holding the edge of the door until the headlights disappeared and he closed the door without shutting the iron gate at the road or the small wooden gate leaning against the boxwood . |
| 24 | Moldavia refused to hold the referendum on the grounds that it would worsen ethnic tensions in the republic . |
| 25 | While state-owned and foreign businesses have held the centre of the stage for three decades , tens of thousands of informal sector artisans have been producing a range of goods for use in households , agriculture , transport and construction . |
| 26 | There has been a kind of stalemate in the class struggle which has placed governments in the position of tackling deep-rooted problems with technocratic instruments of strictly limited effectiveness : they have held the line on the balance of payments by means of periodic deflation , which has not really solved anything ; they have periodically checked inflation and attempted to rebuild industrial profitability by means of ad hoc incomes policy but have been unable either to maintain popular support for such policies or to push forward to a comprehensive planning of prices and incomes , investment and consumption . |