Example sentences of "[noun pl] hold [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The longer that socialist parties held on to the old orthodoxies , the worse they have suffered . |
| 2 | Nuremberg will forever be associated with the trials held here after the last war , which is a shame . |
| 3 | The dog refused to budge , so , instructing the two older girls to hold tight to the younger , I heaved up the 196lb of stubborn fur and staggered to the railing I went down to extricate my struggling son and carried him upwards followed by shrieking pleas of , ‘ Daddy , do n't leave us ’ and ‘ I want a carry ’ , from the frantic tadpole in charge of two red-faced little girls who were now starting to show signs of stain and filling tear-ducts . |
| 4 | A ghostly pale grey shape rises from the woodland edge , fingered wings held typically in the shallow V : a male hen harrier . |
| 5 | When they saw Frick , whom they had been told to expect , the Sturmabteilungen snapped to attention , their arms held out in the traditional Nazi salute . |
| 6 | and only occasional services held there by the various members of the Presbytery . |
| 7 | But he would not let her , her stubborn sailor , he held on to her as the walls held on to the moving air within her house . |
| 8 | A handful of snipers held out to the last , and received no quarter . |
| 9 | Coates ( 1985 , pp. 27 , 77 ) , for example , argues that in recent decades narrative has broken down to be replaced by a cinema of ‘ isolated heterogeneous events held together by the ramshackle constructions of Victorian melodrama ’ , and that from the mid-1960s we have seen the dissolution of the distinction between realist and non-realist film . |
| 10 | Charles swept the land twice with his armies , burning and killing wherever he could find victims , but the Saxons held out in the impenetrable forests and marshes , closing in behind the Frankish military movements . |