Example sentences of "[pron] hold the [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I held the leg to the can and took the lid away , sliding the leg over the hole as I did so . |
| 2 | Er previously I 've had , held the license of Three Fishes at Lyddon er , for three years er , previous to that I held the license of the Mason 's Arms , with for three years previous to that and before I 've been connected with the catering and licensed trade from be fifteen . |
| 3 | Er previous to that I held the licence at The Three Fishes at er for three years . |
| 4 | Er previous to that I held the licence for The Mason 's Arms at for three years previous to that and before that I 've been connected with the catering and licence trade from being fifteen . |
| 5 | BBC BASIC does this for you automatically and provides a pointer PTR# ( a pseudo-variable ) which holds the position of the NEXT character ( byte ) to be written/read . |
| 6 | There is also a 16-bit stack pointer register , which holds the address of the top of a stack or last-in-first-out list of store locations ( see Chapter 3 ) . |
| 7 | It pays to drill holes in the battens , for the nails which hold the panel to the posts , to avoid splitting . |
| 8 | Government in the New Style consists in gambling with the interests of the nation to propitiate the various mutinous factions which hold the balance in the House of Commons . " |
| 9 | Simultaneously the men of the bank support section tugged and pulled their steel wire ropes and tirfor winches into place , to provide anchorages from which to hold the ends of the bridge in the correct depth of water for loading . |
| 10 | Yemen , which held the presidency of the UN Security Council in December [ see pp. 37870-71 ] , had proposed on Dec. 2 , through its UN permanent representative Abdallah Saleh al-Ashtal , that attempts should be made to " clarify the positive consequences " , including the lifting of economic sanctions and the withdrawal of all foreign troops from the Gulf . |
| 11 | The Luxembourg government , which held the presidency of the Council of Ministers for the first half of 1991 , presented a redrafted draft union treaty on June 20 . |
| 12 | The Commission had pressed for a 35 per cent reduction , while the latest compromise proposal by the Portuguese government ( which held the presidency of the EC Council of Ministers for the first half of 1992 ) argued for a reduction of 27 per cent . |
| 13 | John Major , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom , which held the presidency of the EC Council of Ministers for the second half of 1992 , declared that Edinburgh would " be remembered as the summit that put the Community back together " . |
| 14 | The first gerrymander of the city occurred in 1896 , with the Londonderry improvement Bill ; this created five electoral wards , one of which held the bulk of the city 's Catholics , and enabled the Unionists to have a majority in the others . |
| 15 | Indeed the covenant is important but it is Christ who holds the key to the understanding of baptism and I thought that you would like to hear how your work has helped us to see our way in this respect . |
| 16 | Ian Wright has become a player who holds the key for the two Grahams , George and Taylor . |
| 17 | You hold the middle of the buggy like that . |
| 18 | You hold the machine on the surface and gradually tilt the blade downwards to saw through . |
| 19 | You hold the end of the string and the muscles in the hand cause the ‘ bob ’ to gyrate or swing in pendulum fashion . |
| 20 | She held the bird by the ring at the top of the cage and it had started to trill again . |
| 21 | She held the curl over the fire . |
| 22 | She held the letter over the basket , ready to consign it to being thrown away , and then at the last minute snatched it back and put in in her desk . |
| 23 | Sighing , she held the pan under the tap and rinsed it out . |
| 24 | With great care , she held the box over the neck of the jug and pulled the lid fully open and tipped the newt in . |
| 25 | She held the envelope to the light , squinting at it with one eye while she tried to read the first paragraph . |
| 26 | But it was Arsenal , where Chapman had spent his longest period as manager , who held the limelight in the last years of peace . |
| 27 | Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu , EC Commission President Jacques Delors and Ruud Lubbers , the Netherlands Prime Minister who held the presidency of the EC Council of Ministers for the second half of 1991 , held their first formal EC-Japanese summit in The Hague on July 18 immediately after the London G-7 summit [ see pp. 38321-22 ] . |
| 28 | Hewett , who gave a very difficult chance to Briggs , who ran from cover point , fell to a wonderful catch at mid-on by Mold , who held the ball at the second attempt . |
| 29 | Up at the bar he saw Everett Maltby and , beyond him , Tibbet the Highwayman and beyond him Cicely de Vaulles , who held the fief of the manor house , 250 yards from where he and Donald were drinking . |
| 30 | He was the man who held the drawstrings to the Shah 's own private fortune , amassed at home and abroad since the Shah had found himself penniless in his first exile in 1953 . |