Example sentences of "hold [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He holds it the way elderly Greeks hold worry beads , a certain anxiety about the dwindling supplies of life remaining , kept at bay by this endless fiddling . |
| 2 | Well it was like the two soldiers and the one person just holds it the other person just tried and knock the head off . |
| 3 | Okay , so there you are you see , you 're , you 're a first aider and you come up to the person and you hold it the way you did last time and you think ah , now that 's the wrong way round of course , there 's my elbow point , there 's my injured elbow , so I have to be that way round , mm , so you turn it round the other way , right , your elbow shape goes to the injured elbow and your long line goes straight up and down the line of the body , you arrange it so that you only just covering the forearm there , with just enough above the hand to tie your reef knot that would be too little and that would be too much just enough above the hands to tie your reef knot , the first thing you do is to tuck nice , big bit of material right under the hand and anchor it into position , just keep that resting there and all the rest of this goes under the arm up between the shoulder blades there and you tie your first half of the reef knot just above the fingers in the hollow of the neck here , now that 's important because round the back here if you press on that bit of muscle there , there 's a big band of muscle , if you 've got a knot on that it gives a great deal of discomfort very quickly so you want to get the knots round in the hollow here that does n't hurt your casualty , there , draw it up half the knot , is that tight enough ? |
| 4 | In its original meaning çift referred to the smallest unit of land which could support a family , and in the early days of the timar system the çift was the core holding which the timarli farmed himself for the benefit of his own family . |
| 5 | As she stood there holding it the memories came flooding back — and not all of them pleasant . |
| 6 | Right , cos , it 's like everything , it 's like your weight it either goes up and up and up or it goes down and down and down , you 'll never hold it the same |
| 7 | you know , but , you , not only have you got to get the right colour and everything , you 've got to hold it the correct distance away from the metal |
| 8 | A meeting is held which the teacher attends in role as a railway engineer . |
| 9 | He held none the less , in the light of the medical evidence , that her refusal to undergo treatment at the London specialist centre should be overruled . |
| 10 | And the longer he held her the weaker she felt . |