Example sentences of "[noun pl] hold out [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Her call came after the surrender of the last group of rebels holding out at a military air base at Mactan in the central Philippines .
2 With Amstrad shares edging ahead to 29p , just 1p below the offer price , analysts were expecting shareholders to hold out for a better offer .
3 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 .
4 A handful of snipers held out to the last , and received no quarter .
5 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 .
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