Example sentences of "[pers pn] be hold [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , this morning Beth Christie was brighter than usual ; she planned to shop for the dinner party she was holding later in the week . |
| 2 | When she recovered she was holding on to the edge of the table for balance . |
| 3 | And then she was holding on to the branches , feeling where the Robemaker had hacked and sawn at them , knowing she must be hurting the Larch even more , and trying to be as gentle as possible . |
| 4 | He was giving her orders : she was to hold on to the edge of the pool and breathe deeply in and out . |
| 5 | She was most welcoming and wanted their children to have their friends in , she was a neighbourly woman , but if those children were still what she called ‘ hanging around ’ by the time dinner was ready and she was held up in the business of getting the evening meal dealt with , it put her out . |
| 6 | She was held down on the bed whilst a variety of sexual acts were performed on her . |
| 7 | We are held briefly at the runway apron , and then we are off . |
| 8 | He said we were holding on to the ball , but we wanted it to come out . |
| 9 | If they were held on to the animal or plant would die . |
| 10 | In the old days , with casein , it used to be said of some of the aircraft in the tropics that they were held together by the assembly brads . |
| 11 | Each activity has a main subject focus , though ( i ) it is held together by the history theme of the project , and ( ii ) it will not be exclusively mono-subject based . |
| 12 | It was holding on to the tree but I pulled it off . |
| 13 | It was held in with the present public excluded but now we seem to have a completely different situation . |
| 14 | He was holding on to the hand of one of the passengers who was bleeding rather badly . |
| 15 | When I changed buses there was just time to get the sweets and bananas — the bananas were very good today ; and on the other bus there was a nice driver who said that if I sat near the front he would let me off at the crossing if he was held up in the traffic , instead of my going on to the bus stop and having to walk back ; because of the rain . ’ |
| 16 | Robert Crehan claims he was held down as the body building star repeatedly kicked him . |
| 17 | Although she had never read any of his books , she was well aware of the high regard he was held in in the literary world . |