Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] hold [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this juncture I merely want to hold on to the notion that workers are pressed , for a variety of reasons , into a dependent position of an infantile-like nature , which is felt to be unalterable , in many industrial enterprises . |
| 2 | NORTHANTS might just struggle to hold on to the NatWest trophy they won on Sunday . |
| 3 | She just had to hold on to the thought that , although he believed he knew who , he did n't know where . |
| 4 | A couple of miles down the road at London Irish they still want to hold on to the Irish connection , even if that leads to qualification by reading The Irish Times . |
| 5 | Swindon insist there 's been no formal approach by Cheslea and still hope to hold on to the architect of Monday 's triumph . |
| 6 | Then I realised this was unusual for an owl , because in the wild they tend to swallow their prey whole , so I simply stopped holding on to the chick and soon she was gobbling it up in one . |