Example sentences of "hold on to [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Tranmere Rovers verses Swindon Town.Now all it needs is for the Swindon players to hold their nerve and hold on to their two goal advantage .
2 The Italians lost in the league on Sunday but they 're still confident of progressing to the quarter finals of the Cup winners ' cup by holding on to their one goal advantage .
3 ‘ It will be devastating if the Milk Race is not here next year , ’ said Lillywhite after holding on to his 20 seconds lead over Norway 's Ole Simensen .
4 The next step is to work out why you are still holding on to your old belief .
5 Of its 450 members , 162 last month signed a letter arguing that for the time being Ukraine should hold on to its nuclear weapons .
6 Far from being a challenger for power , it could not even hold on to its old citadels .
7 The offensive has slowed , and there are doubts whether the guerrillas can hold on to their recent gains for long .
8 No longer will I hold on to my lifelong belief that events in the world around me threaten my personal identity .
9 After their loss of Normandy in 1204 the king-dukes were all the more concerned to hold on to their southern lands .
10 Dolphins that feed mainly on squid usually have fewer teeth and have developed other adaptations to hold on to their slippery-bodied meals .
11 It is the particular genius of British politics that the major parties have always managed to hold on to their respective extremists and so to draw their teeth .
12 With the scent of him dizzying her senses it was all she could do to hold on to her common sense once more .
13 Robyn ground out , forcing herself to hold on to what little composure she had left .
14 They tell the listener that the speaker wishes to hold on to his conversational turn , but at the same time asks for assistance .
15 Francis Bacon advised King James to hold on to his royal wastes and hunting forests for exactly this potential ; and , as if to confirm the good sense of such drainage enterprises , a series of bad winters between 1607 and 1613 created some of the worst floods in living memory .
16 The huge " club fender " of early Edwardian times should have held on to its proper suggestions of Christmas , when a group of laughing guests sat there , full glasses in their hands , while child actors performed in a glittering pantomime , entrances and exits from behind the Christmas tree .
17 Despite joint ventures in Europe with Philips and Olivetti , and in Spain , AT&T did not successfully achieve the same status as the existing ‘ foreign legion ’ telecoms equipment suppliers ; Siemens of Germany and Ericsson continued their traditional success as equipment suppliers in many countries , and ITT largely held on to its foreign markets both under its US ownership and when it came under majority French ( Alcatel ) control in 1986 .
18 Perhaps Mr Dlouhy should have held on to his official Audi after all .
19 Byas held on to his third catch in the slips to gain Carrick the wicket of Harvey Trump , and after Robinson had returned to account for Andrew Cottam , Carrick rounded off the innings by getting the stubborn Andrew Caddick caught at extra cover for 37 .
20 To Marquand , MacDonald 's real fault was that he held on to his nineteenth-century principles for too long .
21 Sole contender to get over the 23rd fence at the first attempt in a huge pile-up in 1967 , the moderate , blinkered Foinavon held on to his unexpected lead all the way to the winning post , seven lonely fences later , to beat Honey End with Red Alligator , who won it next year , third .
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