Example sentences of "[vb mod] hold the [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They must hold the spoon by the handle . |
| 2 | But he might hold the rest at the Earn until our fifteen hundred come up from the south . ’ |
| 3 | She might hold the solution to the MacQuillan mystery . ’ |
| 4 | Nor was the thought that he alone might hold the key to the mystery the sole component in his strangely elated state . |
| 5 | A Health and Safety team were on site this afternoon trying to find out what happened.Meanwhile nearby lay the visor and welding kit that could hold the key to the tragedy . |
| 6 | For some time before that election , it had been recognised that , in the event of a close overall United Kingdom result , the Ulster MPs could hold the balance in the House of Commons . |
| 7 | Thus , given that there might come a time when forces were available for deployment in the Middle East , it made sense for American diplomats to encourage what friends and allies they could to hold the line in the interval . |
| 8 | This would not matter , were it not for the apparent demise of the Liberals , who used to hold the balance in the Bundestag and whose defection brought down Helmut Schmidt 's government in October . |
| 9 | Even when not evident it is always worth looking for , since it may hold the clue to the whole case . |
| 10 | This method of progression is unsettling enough to make some riders seasick , but it may hold the key to the beast 's endurance . |
| 11 | She would hold the end of the twine while he walked away from her backwards across the freshly dug earth , unwinding the ball of twine slowly and deliberately , crouching at the other end to peg it into the earth , then coming back to stake her end too . |
| 12 | In the alternative , however , they contended that the payments by Woolwich had been made pursuant to an implied agreement between Woolwich and the revenue whereby it was agreed that the revenue would hold the sums pending the outcome of proceedings to determine the validity of the relevant regulations , and that any entitlement of Woolwich to repayment arose on the date of the first judgment of Nolan J. with the effect that interest ran only from that date . |
| 13 | After we reduced the parts to three , it became clear that we had to remove the work from the centre and reduce it to two elements , which would hold the volumes of the north and the south galleries and make a linkage across the Octagon activating the entire space . |
| 14 | If the purchaser has actual knowledge that the asset sale carried out by the directors is in breach of their fiduciary duty , the transaction is voidable at the instance of the vendor and the purchaser will hold the proceeds of the sale as a constructive trustee . |
| 15 | The Coroner who will hold the inquest into the deaths , has agreed to sit with a jury … which relatives and their lawyers claim is vital . |
| 16 | Upon a bequest to a trustee upon trust for a beneficiary who predeceases the testator , the trustee will hold the property for the benefit of the testator 's representatives . |
| 17 | Although I can not go into too much detail , I would like to look at players between the ages of 15 to 17 , as they will hold the key to the future , but I do n't think too many of them would be ready in time for the 1995 European championships in Dublin . |
| 18 | Mr McLaughlin believes Sinn Fein will hold the seat in the by-election , which is likely to be held on Thursday October 21 . |