Example sentences of "hold [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most people in the territories feared the PLO was in danger of rushing into some unsatisfactory settlement rather than holding out for the right conditions . |
| 2 | Mahdi Mohammed loyalists were holding out in the northern fringes of the capital . |
| 3 | British Coal insists that is main aim is to hold on to the three-year contracts with the two electricity generators , which will be renegotiated in March next year . |
| 4 | The longer that socialist parties held on to the old orthodoxies , the worse they have suffered . |
| 5 | In the end , they held on for the vital points , having gained five in their last three games to ensure safety . |
| 6 | What is important to highlight at this juncture is the attraction that such a possibility held out for the intellectual workers of the time . |
| 7 | Charles swept the land twice with his armies , burning and killing wherever he could find victims , but the Saxons held out in the impenetrable forests and marshes , closing in behind the Frankish military movements . |