Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] hold on [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 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
2 But I want to hold on to the role . ’
3 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 .
4 She tried to hold on to the heady rapture that was sweeping her along like a river in flood .
5 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 .
6 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 ?
7 Here 's an imag-inary line-up Leeds might be fielding now if they 'd held on to the stars they rejected .
8 The police explained why they 'd held on to the vehicles which were being kept near Malvern , not at Worcester .
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