Example sentences of "[pers pn] hold [pron] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I held you firmly by the hand , |
| 2 | if you hold them up to the light then you see them |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't give a fig , ’ Cranston replied , ‘ if you hold it direct from the Holy Father ! |
| 4 | I think you hold it right at the end . |
| 5 | in the bottom of the cup , it just when you hold the cup up to the light , the picture comes through , you know it 's , the shape and the colours come through when you hold it up to the light |
| 6 | So remember you hold it down for the right length and quickly take your hand off , as soon as you 've done it . |
| 7 | When she held it up to the light she saw that a small circle of skin was inflamed . |
| 8 | You held her down for the other one . |
| 9 | Her earliest memory was of him holding her tightly by the hand , when she was just a toddler , in case she strayed too near the rushing river . |
| 10 | Not nine months out of the convent , and she was behaving like a trollop , encouraging him to hold her tightly round the waist , tossing back her head to laugh , looking into his face with a silly , fatuous smile . |
| 11 | They held her up to the window , and she was crying and banging on the glass as we drove away . ’ |
| 12 | He was polishing glasses and he held them up to the light to check them and thereby seemed to be ignoring Maidstone completely . |
| 13 | Each touch of each finger seemed to burn through her sweat-shirt , and her insides gave the most awful lurch as he held her easily above the floor , his eyes fixed steadily on hers . |
| 14 | He held her hard against the door , his dark face very close . |
| 15 | He pulled her into his arms , giving her no chance to try to evade him as he held her tightly against the solid strength of his body . |
| 16 | He held her tightly against the length of him , and there was no space between their bodies . |
| 17 | Once the glass was full he held it up to the lantern that hung from the awning 's strut and toasted whichever patient had paid for that afternoon 's bonefishing . |
| 18 | He held it up to the light to give a clearer view . |
| 19 | He held it up for the others to see and then threw it at the thin man contemptuously who automatically caught it in both hands . |
| 20 | He held it out in the servant 's direction and let it go . |