Example sentences of "will hold [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most commonly , mura-muras are asked to send rain , for it is well known that if one is offended he will hold up a huge bark dish to the heavens and catch all the rain on its way to earth , out of spite . |
| 2 | Then five seconds from ‘ blast off ’ the starter will hold up a five second board . |
| 3 | Teachers should be aware , particularly of that aspect , I think , because phonic method is very often used in schools , by which I mean that the teacher wil hold up a flash card , and on it would be a pair of letters , say , suppose for example sh the teacher will hold up a large card with sh on it and will say to the class ‘ this is shuss ’ and the children will all say shuss whenever this card is held up — that 's fine , but the dyslexic pupil may not be seeing sh in the same way that the other children are . |
| 4 | Because this Journal is already full we will hold over a full report until the next issue . |
| 5 | A £16.1m dam will hold back a 2.6-mile-long artificial lake to be known as the Roadford Reservoir . |