Example sentences of "hold [adv prt] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sat down heavily and while holding on firmly to the still struggling fish , put his head between his knees , panting loudly for a full minute . |
| 2 | He held on desperately to the dead weight fish , but try as he might , he was unable to regain his feet . |
| 3 | And , having held off longer in the vain hope that the negative economic signals would prove false , IBM 's European and Japanese customers will be obligated to make more drastic cutbacks in mainframe expenditures than will their American counterparts . |
| 4 | For one thing it seems that Ho 's reply , via Saigon , was held up deliberately by the French authorities so that it was not received in Paris until after the war had begun . |
| 5 | However , with Peter Daynes and Andy Berry doing their work well in the centre of defence , ‘ Mill held out well in the tense opening stages . |