Example sentences of "i [verb] hold [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
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| 1 | ‘ No , I got held Up at the office . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I got held up at the office . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I got held up at the last minute . ’ |
| 4 | I was going on with it , all the bumps were okay but when I was actually inside the building again I hung on to GrandPat to get to the steps but my hand slipped so I was going round with the current so I tried to hold on to the orange thing that they had put there but I slipped off that and I kept on going round and the lifeguard gave erm me and somebody else a hoop and we both grabbed onto it |
| 5 | But I want to hold on to the role . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |