Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] hold [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , I got held Up at the office . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I got held up at the office . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I got held up at the last minute . ’ |
| 4 | I was going on with it , all the bumps were okay but when I was actually inside the building again I hung on to GrandPat to get to the steps but my hand slipped so I was going round with the current so I tried to hold on to the orange thing that they had put there but I slipped off that and I kept on going round and the lifeguard gave erm me and somebody else a hoop and we both grabbed onto it |
| 5 | But I want to hold on to the role . ’ |
| 6 | At my first event in Fort Worth , I had held on to the few people I knew as though for dear life , terrified at the thought of being stranded in this great wilderness . |
| 7 | They can hardly design a Mulberry harbour and tented village for Iona which has held out against the ravages of the Atlantic , the Viking , the climate , and the disinterest of the Scot in his religious heritage . |
| 8 | She tried to hold on to the heady rapture that was sweeping her along like a river in flood . |
| 9 | Tanzania 's President Ali Hassan Mwinyi was elected on Aug. 16 as chair of the ruling Chama cha Mapinduzi ( CCM ) party , with 1,846 out of 1,851 votes cast , in succession to the " elder statesman " leader Julius Nyerere , who had held on to the party chairmanship for five years since stepping down as state President in 1985 . |
| 10 | ‘ Saving our skins , ’ she said holding fast to the plans that begged to be told , because there still was n't enough time . |
| 11 | As Tim said you have to hold on to the fact that these are real characters and their in a kind of confrontational situation here are n't they ? |
| 12 | I was told I could see him for an hour but they got held up on the way and I was rushed through the visit . |
| 13 | Here 's an imag-inary line-up Leeds might be fielding now if they 'd held on to the stars they rejected . |
| 14 | The police explained why they 'd held on to the vehicles which were being kept near Malvern , not at Worcester . |
| 15 | If this state of affairs continues the state will be denied an important source of legitimation for its own authority — namely the promise ( which it has held out in the past ) of a steady increase in the level of material well-being enjoyed by the population as a whole ( Poggi , 1978 ; Winkler , 1975 ; Poulantzas , 1978 ; Habermas , 1971 , 1976 ) . |