Example sentences of "[coord] hold [pers pn] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a while he opens his case , takes out a glass vial and holds it up to the light . |
| 2 | A teenage girl gets on the bus , then , as if she 's just remembered , takes out a comic story magazine and holds it out of the window . |
| 3 | He was wearing an apron which made him look like a housewife , and tinkering with glass eyes , taking them out of a box and holding them up to the empty sockets of the dead bird , trying to find a matching pair that fitted . |
| 4 | Taking the bag and holding it up towards the window , Bodie peered at the two slugs . |
| 5 | ‘ The cow is there ’ , said Ansell , lighting a match and holding it out over the carpet . |
| 6 | Traditionally , it was usual to take the upwind wing-tip and to hold it slightly below the horizontal . |
| 7 | As though humouring her , he put out his arms and held her loosely round the waist , smiling at her in a sympathetic way , as one does to an invalid . |
| 8 | Some days Ariel carried the hooped Sycorax on her back ( she would not ride on anyone else ) down to the shore and into the water , and held her up under the arms so that she could let her contorted frame float free ; small currents spun in the water as if to ease her , and the sky 's blue height seemed to catch them up into its soft vastness and give them fins and wings to fly and swoop , so that they both felt airier and brighter than they had since their freedom had come to an end , and the memory of their former peace returned for a space . |
| 9 | The younger man had hauled his older opponent from the ground and held him up against the wall with one hand while he pummelled his face with the other , and the blood covered his fist . |
| 10 | Frantically Shannon tried to wriggle away , but he was too fast for her , his large body effectively pinning her to the mattress , and when she tried to slap him he caught her flailing wrists and held them fast on the pillow above her head . |
| 11 | I pretended to find a smudge on the glasses , rinsed them , dried them and held them up to the light . |
| 12 | SCRIBBLED swear words on pillows and held them up to the cabin crew members demonstrating emergency procedures . |
| 13 | He took the Deep Space discod from his jerkin and held it meaningfully towards the light source . |
| 14 | He drew out a sturdy transparent plastic inner bag and held it up to the light to show me the contents . |
| 15 | Miss Harker looked at it with distaste as if it were a species of repellent insect wriggling on a pin , then took it carefully between her finger and thumb and held it up to the light of the candle . |
| 16 | The photographer pulled his roll of film from the camera and held it up to the light . |
| 17 | The white-robed man took the torch from the girl and held it up to the people . |
| 18 | He picked up one of the envelopes and held it up to the light : the watermark showed the heraldic hybrid with which he was becoming familiar , with the wings of an eagle and the body of a lion . |
| 19 | He stepped over , pierced one of the raw chunks with his dagger and held it up before the mastiff . |
| 20 | The police-sergeant took the envelope and held it carefully by the edges between his fingers and thumb . |
| 21 | Once , he licked his finger and held it aloft in the airstream before lowering it to point decisively along a corridor that appeared to Bernice no different from the other two that also ran from the junction . |
| 22 | He plucked a heavy silver ring from the middle finger of his left hand , tugging it over the knuckle impetuously , and held it out across the table in his palm . |
| 23 | Then from his own pocket he drew another , rather the same but very much shinier , and held it out in the palm of his hand . |
| 24 | Carefully she drew it out through the folds of the eiderdown and held it close to the flame of the nightlight . |