Example sentences of "to hold [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know nothing of the circumstances of his illness , but he was dying angrily and his procrastinations could be sufficiently explained by a need to hold on to life , to defer events into the future . |
| 2 | Despite the military superiority of the government forces , the rebels continued to hold on to territory in the south . |
| 3 | It still has a minority government determined to hold on to power and interfering with the process of change by its illegal financial ( and other ) support of Inkatha . |
| 4 | Better to hold on to power for a few days or hours longer . |
| 5 | The so- called middle class leaders of the P.N.M. have , up until now , managed to hold on to power , which is extraordinary considering they were ‘ so completely without ideas of any kind ’ . |
| 6 | Robbie , leaning against the cushions of a high-backed wooden settle , fought hard to hold on to reality . |
| 7 | A director would instruct dealers to tell their clients that an announcement was pending " in order to persuade them to buy more or to hold on to stock they wished to sell . |
| 8 | And whether they 're coming or not , that city is going to hold out to starvation point and beyond , so long as it believes in a rescue . ’ |
| 9 | Then , his expression quite impassive , he dug a hand into a trouser pocket and carefully , as if trying to hold fast to quick-silver , brought up a fistful of small change . |
| 10 | Difficult to hold fast to time . |
| 11 | Separate national autonomies had appeal for those with some stake in society , the lower-middle classes , craft and some skilled workers ; the right wing gravitated towards peaceful reform and nationalism , while the left endeavoured to hold hard to revolution and a working-class unity that would cut horizontally across the empire . |