Example sentences of "to hold [adv prt] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for all his troubles Stephen , an amiable and gallant king , had managed to hold on to England and it took three strange twists of fortune to transform the situation . |
| 2 | In this way , protected by a structure created by a skilled therapist , we can cower in fear , howl with anger , weep with panic , rend our clothes in guilt and let go any need to hold on to feelings which belong to our past rather than our present lives . |
| 3 | Gloria was always telling Dot she should try to hold on to things so she 'd have them as keepsakes for ever . |
| 4 | Well by the time she 's finished this course she should be confident to hold on to things in the water , you know |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Despite the military superiority of the government forces , the rebels continued to hold on to territory in the south . |
| 7 | HOWARD KENDALL last night admitted he faces a battle to hold on to Everton 's £2m-rated defender Martin Keown . |
| 8 | Not content with damning Churchill for causing the Dardanelles disaster , attempting to stifle Bolshevism at birth , returning to the Gold Standard and trying to hold on to India , John Charmley faults him for opposing appeasement . |
| 9 | It may help your child to hold on to memories of the past and to begin to think about changes in the future by painting pictures , making a tape recording or keeping a scrapbook of family events . |
| 10 | If some measure of upright posture is possible the hand , originally evolved to hold on to trees , can also be used to hold on to sticks , stones , tools and artefacts . |
| 11 | So do not be afraid to hold on to impressions that logically seem to cancel one another out . |
| 12 | That Iraq never once even nibbled at the goodies has convinced the administration that diplomacy was always doomed , because Mr Hussein meant to hold on to Kuwait no matter what . |
| 13 | If some measure of upright posture is possible the hand , originally evolved to hold on to trees , can also be used to hold on to sticks , stones , tools and artefacts . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Better to hold on to power for a few days or hours longer . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | Laziness , a desire to hold on to salaries and to stay with families , accounts for much afrancesado collaboration . |
| 18 | That was when France was trying to hold on to Vietnam . |
| 19 | Robbie , leaning against the cushions of a high-backed wooden settle , fought hard to hold on to reality . |
| 20 | Newcastle , however , may be unable to afford to hold on to Scott , the only player still at the club from the team which won the FA Youth Cup in 1985 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |