Example sentences of "hold [pers pn] [art] " 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 | Hold me a little bit . |
| 4 | Pump Court Chambers started putting on the seminars only last year and they now hold them every three or four months . |
| 5 | Hold them a sec please Ca n't you lot afford food ? |
| 6 | ‘ Now hold it a minute , ’ I said , holding my hands up . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Matey encouragingly , ‘ we hold it every year , and we usually make quite a large sum to give to the various charities connected with the Church . ’ |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | Yesterday a court agreed to police holding them a further 36 hours . |
| 10 | I know what you want , and as sure as hell , ’ he said savagely , his merciless hands holding her a prisoner , ‘ I 'll stop you from getting it . ’ |
| 11 | That shoulder obviously still him a problem he seems to be holding it a little bit awkwardly as it comes in to Speedy now . |
| 12 | As she stood there holding it the memories came flooding back — and not all of them pleasant . |
| 13 | The numbers were reduced to nine the following year , as it was generally felt that it would be better to hold them every other year and quite a few indicated they would be prepared to take part on a biennial basis . |
| 14 | It 's sharp as a razor , a real hunting knife , but if you keep the sheath on you can hold it a bit . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | Dorothy Best , secretary of Durham County Schools AA , said : ‘ Cumbria and ourselves are staging the county championships on the recommended date but unfortunately Cleveland and Northumberland have held theirs a week earlier . |
| 18 | Fen held her a little away from him , his hand going under her chin so that she could not hide her tear-streaked face . |
| 19 | And the longer he held her the weaker she felt . |
| 20 | Winnie held him a five pound note . |
| 21 | She held him a little closer . |