Example sentences of "[vb past] hold [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried to hold on to the heady rapture that was sweeping her along like a river in flood . |
| 2 | I was going on with it , all the bumps were okay but when I was actually inside the building again I hung on to GrandPat to get to the steps but my hand slipped so I was going round with the current so I tried to hold on to the orange thing that they had put there but I slipped off that and I kept on going round and the lifeguard gave erm me and somebody else a hoop and we both grabbed onto it |
| 3 | With a mother who was active in B'nai B'rith , Anne Barth was offered a place on one of the early Kindertransporte , but her parents decided to hold back in the faint hope that conditions would improve . |
| 4 | At my first event in Fort Worth , I had held on to the few people I knew as though for dear life , terrified at the thought of being stranded in this great wilderness . |
| 5 | It was true , she said — Sir Gregory Roscarrock was indeed her grandfather , and that was why her father had held fast to the Old Faith . |
| 6 | The commandos , who belong to a 55-strong group of US military advisers in El Salvador , had held out on the sixth floor of the annexe during the siege .. |
| 7 | ‘ I got held up at the last minute . ’ |