Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] hold [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Becky kept holding on to the picture .
2 Ann said hold on to the pattern , she said I do n't know what to do , erm knit them
3 But he conceded that Tokyo had held back in the aftermarket of British Gas .
4 But he conceded that Tokyo had held back in the aftermarket of British Gas .
5 Chris had to hold on to the grab handle of the jeep or she would have been flung out .
6 Just after Manning had come the agnostic Tyndall , talking about the identity of radiant heat and light ; and just before Stanley , the militant anti-christian W. K. Clifford had held forth on the education of the people , and especially on the importance of technical drawing .
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