Example sentences of "held [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | N may be too large for there to be room for that number of add instructions to be held economically in the store , or the value of N may not be known when the program is being prepared ( for example it might be read in as a piece of data ) . |
| 2 | Far Eastern reports of imminent bid terms from Hongkong & Shanghai Bank caused some early excitement in Midland Bank and , despite a denial , the stock held on to a 10 point rise to 345p . |
| 3 | East Midlands Electricity jumped from 237p to 305p before settling at 276p , while London Electricity held on to a 53-point rise to 306p . |
| 4 | Three wickets had done down in four balls with the score 277 , and had Kapil Dev at backward square leg held on to a straightforward catch offered by Healy off Tendulkar , India might have taken charge . |
| 5 | The reserve goalkeeper held on to the place for four months , and was selected for several weeks after Grobbelaar returned to action with the reserves . |
| 6 | The reserve goalkeeper held on to the place for four months , and was selected for several weeks after Grobbelaar returned to action with the reserves . |
| 7 | I tugged and lugged the dinghy until it was sliding backwards down the bank , and then held on to the painter , digging my heels in , leaning back to prevent too fast and splashy a launch . |
| 8 | None of the earlier owners seem to have held on to the property for very long , for in 1647 , it was acquired by the Earl of Pembroke , then shortly afterwards , it was sold to Lord Pawlet , who is reported to have entertained General Fairfax at Chiswick House , on a number of occasions . |
| 9 | In use , the pack is held on to the tool by a single metal strap , but the pack is recessed so far into the machine that this was perfectly stable . |
| 10 | But he would not let her , her stubborn sailor , he held on to her as the walls held on to the moving air within her house . |
| 11 | The way in which fireplace surrounds are held on to the wall of the chimney breast varies according to the type of surround . |
| 12 | The longer that socialist parties held on to the old orthodoxies , the worse they have suffered . |
| 13 | The field is led by Miró with a rise of 1090% one of the few artists to have held on to the gains of the 1988–90 period . |
| 14 | Whereas in the past teachers held on to the professionalism of hearing children read as their specialist preserve , they have now realised that perhaps their professionalism lies elsewhere . |
| 15 | One man held on to the lawyer 's sleeve . |
| 16 | The merchants had the cash , but the weakening aristocracy held on to the reins of government . |
| 17 | If they were held on to the animal or plant would die . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Here 's an imag-inary line-up Leeds might be fielding now if they 'd held on to the stars they rejected . |
| 20 | ‘ The Renegades ’ from Dundalk certainly held on to the very end . |
| 21 | Tanzania 's President Ali Hassan Mwinyi was elected on Aug. 16 as chair of the ruling Chama cha Mapinduzi ( CCM ) party , with 1,846 out of 1,851 votes cast , in succession to the " elder statesman " leader Julius Nyerere , who had held on to the party chairmanship for five years since stepping down as state President in 1985 . |
| 22 | The juggernaut bucked and the poet held on to the side to prevent himself being thrown around . |
| 23 | The police explained why they 'd held on to the vehicles which were being kept near Malvern , not at Worcester . |
| 24 | Most types of glider should be showing a very small amount of rudder being held on into the turn . |
| 25 | That day he had held on in a photo from Forever Diamonds , on similar ground to that he will encounter tomorrow . |
| 26 | His theme is memory , a faculty with which he has been prodigiously blessed , though his origins as ‘ the child of Russian Jews from New Jersey ’ are held rather as a noble refusal to forget . |
| 27 | In the wild , the Green Chromides creche their young , a shoal being held together under the protection of the whole adult group , led by one dominant pair . |
| 28 | His on-stage father would unsnap the child 's clothes , which were held together at the back by a clasp , pack them with toothbrush , pyjamas , and reading matter , and throw the patient luggage at an assistant stage manager dressed as a railway porter . |
| 29 | Shaking a match out involves a lot of rattling and scratching about , before he lights the turd using two matches held together for a brighter flare . |
| 30 | It is held together with a cryptic seal showing a human eye , a large X with peck marks round it and the words ‘ a return ’ written underneath . |