Example sentences of "[verb] hold [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the time I 'm working and eating and chatting to my mates , I just want to feel you next to me , just want to hold you in my arms and forget about everything else . |
| 2 | ‘ I want to hold you in my arms and kiss you till we 're both half crazy with it . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I want to make love to you , Claudia , ’ he says , ‘ I want to hold you in my arms all night tru ’ , I want to tell you what it 's been like for me without you , just missing you , missing you so bad like one of us had passed on . |
| 4 | We are not advocates of the ‘ prosperity gospel ’ , but we do recognise that the people God definitely seems to entrust with finances are those whom he can trust to hold them with an open hand . |
| 5 | He could feel his thoughts beginning to stampede and furiously tried to hold them in check . |
| 6 | Tried to hold it to it . |
| 7 | Unemployment has also played a part as a recruiting sergeant for the underclass , both in the way it has selected its membership , and in the way it has held them in place . |
| 8 | He told him of the goal that has held him through three years in the University of the North — a campus from which student riots have spread through the country . |
| 9 | Roy Jenkins , chancellor from 1968 to 1970 , acknowledged the strain when he said : ‘ I think it is the most back-breaking job in government and indeed it has broken the back of nearly everyone who has held it since the war . ’ |
| 10 | The eyes that burned through her seemed to hold her like rivets . |
| 11 | And now , despite the fact that he 'd held her in his arms , it needed little imagination to guess that he did n't quite trust her . |
| 12 | On the way down on that stretch of road from death one to death two I call them , the roundabouts I suddenly realised if we were going to have a rehearsal we needed to have a bouquet of flowers did n't we so I leapt out of the car picked some weeds tied them up with a piece of strong so that the chap of our staff who was going to be in front of me was going to hold them during the rehearsal whilst I dashed up to play first of all the Lord Provost and then the Queen or the Lady Provost as she then was . |
| 13 | Right , we 're going to hold you to this . |
| 14 | The message from brokers is apply for shares , but do not look to hold them for the long term . |
| 15 | Special covering profiles are available for corner joints and for joining planks , and special edging strips are used to hold it in place . |
| 16 | I would like to hold you to your bargain , Miranda . ’ |
| 17 | Well we got er Mrs that was in she 's like , when she comes on phone you 've got to hold it like that . |
| 18 | I 'm looking for a nut erm , for this , so you know hold it in position , found one , while I 'll looking I found this and it 's just the job |
| 19 | The other type is the roll-all , which opens out to allow you to slot the rods and other items into small pockets stitched along the bottom with tape ties to hold them in place . |
| 20 | What was he to do to hold her to him ? |
| 21 | Bank CDs are negotiable pieces of paper ; you do not have to hold them to maturity ; you can sell them instead . |
| 22 | Was it his own action of having held her against him ? |
| 23 | If you 'd come out on the gig with me you could have held it for me . |
| 24 | It was love , so real that she could have held it in her hand . |
| 25 | The Bradys would have to agree to hold it in their house or not at all . |
| 26 | He may be taught to hold it with the crook of the handle turned away from him , and his thumb over the top of the handle , so that he does not grip the stick too hard . |
| 27 | They were floundering chest-deep , and Riven went to Madra 's head , helping to hold it above the water . |
| 28 | He kept holding it at me throat and threatening me … . ’ |
| 29 | We never did persuade them , but for six valuable hours we managed to hold them on that course far out into the Flores Sea , until finally they came to their senses , noticed the distant and almost invisible shore , and hurriedly tacked towards it again . |
| 30 | I keep remembering how it felt to hold you in my arms — like this , ’ he murmured as he slid his arms round her . |