Example sentences of "[verb] hold off the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles 's cavalry rallied to hold off the 500 enemy horse which broke through into the rear of his lines and formed a protective corridor down which he , and those of his men still able to fight , slowly withdrew , fiercely resisting . |
| 2 | Behind the scrum — where Ian Hunter will have to prove he is fully recovered after a spate of leg injuries — Rob Andrew , as suspected , has held off the late challenge of Ellwood , though coach Ian McGeechan will certainly want him to do more to compromise the enemy back row . |
| 3 | The decline of the West Indian sugar economy , and the near-complete ability of the US cotton economy to supply its own black labour through the reproduction of its gender-balanced slave population , lessened the vested interest which might otherwise have held off the evangelical/humanitarian reformers rather longer . |
| 4 | Three thousand members of the Sealed Knot have been re-staging the civil war battle in which the city managed to hold off the royalist seige for twenty six days . |
| 5 | He never really reached top form last night , but had enough fight to hold off the mentally tough , but physically drained Hlasek . |