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 . |