Example sentences of "[verb] hold [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Then I realised this was unusual for an owl , because in the wild they tend to swallow their prey whole , so I simply stopped holding on to the chick and soon she was gobbling it up in one . |
| 2 | Boxing Day morning was grey and overcast but the rain promised to hold off at least until the evening . |
| 3 | But he added : ‘ Everybody recognises that the Government has to hold on to an existing policy until the replacement is ready to put in place , and clearly the Secretary of State has to hold to his policy until an alternative has been agreed . ’ |
| 4 | One no longer has to hold on to any specifically human end , because the circumstances allow only a single and pre-human end , survival . |
| 5 | Knowing as he does that his uncle has to hold down by discipline a crew with an unusual number of criminals and malcontents , he is still disturbed by the flogging of Jesse Broad and Joyce and the masthead punishment of Thomas Fox . |
| 6 | After the Ebro , Catalonia could not be expected to hold on for long , and if Catalonia fell the rest of Republican Spain was likely to follow . |
| 7 | A couple of miles down the road at London Irish they still want to hold on to the Irish connection , even if that leads to qualification by reading The Irish Times . |
| 8 | Many vicars or pastors want to hold on to their colleagues for dear life and cause them to be tied to two works rather than releasing them fully to one . |
| 9 | At this juncture I merely want to hold on to the notion that workers are pressed , for a variety of reasons , into a dependent position of an infantile-like nature , which is felt to be unalterable , in many industrial enterprises . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've won twice already this year but I want to hold on to my record of winning in Europe at least once each year since turning professional in 1985 , ’ said the former British and US Open champion . |
| 11 | But I want to hold on to the role . ’ |
| 12 | Her senses were in a whirl but she tried to hold on to her sanity . |
| 13 | She tried to hold on to the heady rapture that was sweeping her along like a river in flood . |
| 14 | Not that he tried to hold on to her and not that Travis appeared to think there was anything out of the way in the two of them embracing — she gathered she had their engagement to thank for that . |
| 15 | When that happened , the others , those whose canoes sank , tried to hold on to the canoes that were still afloat . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | When at the top he was disappointed to find no flag , but with some cautious experimentation discovered that he did not need to hold on to the pole — he could float . |
| 18 | Well there 's no question but which therapists and people of medical profession have come across cases of people who have indeed been scarred for their whole lives and and found it very difficult to maintain trust and relationships and and be able to achieve their potential as a result of the sorts of situations that they endured , and perhaps we 're more understanding about those sorts of areas of the human need to be able to express anxiety and to feel that to express fears is is not something that 's going to overwhelm people that are around us , so that adults who are in the care of children , be they teachers , or parents , or child care workers , can allow children to express their feelings so that they do n't need to hold on to them and thereby increase the fears that they have . |
| 19 | Office Cleaning has held on to its portfolio in the face of the fiercest price-competition I have known , and as the year has progressed our strengthening sales team has begun to make good headway . |
| 20 | The following factors are among those which are taken into account : ( 1 ) the length of the previous tenancy or tenancies ( Betty 's Cafes Ltd v Phillips Furnishing Stores Ltd [ 1957 ] 1 Ch 67 at 88 ) ; ( 2 ) any period during which the tenant has held over pending resolution of his application ( London and Provincial Millinery Stores Ltd v Barclays Bank Ltd [ 1962 ] 1 WLR 510 ) ; ( 3 ) the landlord 's intentions as regards his own occupation of the property ( Wig Creations Ltd v Colour Film Services Ltd ( 1969 ) 113 SJ 688 where it was held that the new tenancy should expire shortly after the landlord would become entitled to rely upon s30(1) ( g ) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 ) ; ( 4 ) the prospects of redevelopment of the property ( Reohorn v Barry Corporation [ 1956 ] 2 All ER 742 ; London and Provincial Millinery Stores Ltd v Barclays Bank Ltd ) ; ( 5 ) the balance of hardship , and the relative bargaining positions of the parties ( Upsons Ltd v Robins ( E ) Ltd [ 1956 ] 1 QB 131 ; Amika Motors Ltd v Colebrook Holdings Ltd ( 1981 ) 259 EG 243 ) ; ( 6 ) the tenant 's business needs ( CBS ( United Kingdom ) Ltd v London Scottish Properties Ltd ( 1985 ) 275 EG 718 ) . |
| 21 | If this state of affairs continues the state will be denied an important source of legitimation for its own authority — namely the promise ( which it has held out in the past ) of a steady increase in the level of material well-being enjoyed by the population as a whole ( Poggi , 1978 ; Winkler , 1975 ; Poulantzas , 1978 ; Habermas , 1971 , 1976 ) . |
| 22 | They can hardly design a Mulberry harbour and tented village for Iona which has held out against the ravages of the Atlantic , the Viking , the climate , and the disinterest of the Scot in his religious heritage . |
| 23 | Stop holding on to the wall like that ! ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Stop holding out on me . |
| 25 | Together they rode along in the dark , Tess holding on to Alec . |
| 26 | With the scent of him dizzying her senses it was all she could do to hold on to her common sense once more . |
| 27 | Authorship is identity in the textual sphere , and hence gay people , like all marginal groups , have , at present , a political stake in wanting to hold on to the Author despite her/his expulsion from prevailing postmodernist theories . |
| 28 | And so it goes on through life ; always a struggle between wanting to hold on to what we have at the same time as we are reaching out for new joys and satisfactions ; always the dilemma of making choices , of greedily wanting everything , of resenting having to let anything go . |
| 29 | Yet Gloria herself never seemed to hold on to more than the bare essentials that they had in their two paper carriers . |
| 30 | We all lived on top of each other and at any time one of us was probably irritated in some way by one of the others , but Tom seemed to hold on to it for a long time , never expressing his resentment until he just flipped into despising somebody . |