Example sentences of "have [verb] to hold back " in BNC.
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| 1 | No organization likes being told that it has got to hold back its expansion or abandon some pet project . |
| 2 | And he 'd have had to hold back on some of the madder racist stuff in.public . |
| 3 | The hotel 's owners want to replace it with old people 's homes , but they 've agreed to hold back the bulldozers while the building 's inspected by an official from English Heritage . |
| 4 | Pitt had refused to hold back a single soldier intended for service overseas or to recall any vessels serving on distant stations , but he ordered a further 34 sail of the line to be commissioned and , during that dangerous summer , increased the number of seamen serving in home waters from 18,000 to 35,000 . |
| 5 | In the immediate post-war years there was an attempt to absolve the bureaucracy of responsibility for externally aggressive and internally repressive policies , by pointing out the ways in which bureaucrats had tried to hold back military excesses . |
| 6 | Most users of fast modems have had to hold back from using maximum line speeds plus data compression because of the risk of data loss resulting from unbuffered serial ports . |