Example sentences of "[pron] hold [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hold thee by too many bands : |
| 2 | do you wan na little bit more table , that 's gon na be alright because you 've erm , if I move them if you put on that , if I hold them on my lap and then they wo n't get , you wo n't want to ask me , do you want another one ? |
| 3 | I hold him with me for as long as I can before my leg goes dead . |
| 4 | ‘ I hold you in some affection , child , ’ came the reply . |
| 5 | I hold you in the greatest esteem for the peerless courage you displayed in all you undertook . |
| 6 | In his Life he made William X of Aquitaine protest against Louis 's meddling in the Auvergne , with the words : ‘ If the count of Auvergne has committed any fault , it is my duty to present him at your court on your order , because he holds the Auvergne of me as I hold it of you . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Development ’ may appear in any one writer 's successful novels ; in successful stories , I hold it to be a myth . ’ |
| 8 | If Tom wanted her she would go to Tom , just to be with someone , to have someone to hold her in the night . |
| 9 | ‘ Shall I hold it for you , ma'am ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ In the end I held them against my side under my arm with the suspenders dangling down and some woman said , ‘ Eh , girl them suspenders look as if you should be milking them . ’ |
| 11 | TWICE IN MY LIFE I have consciously avoided meeting someone , because I held them in such awe . |
| 12 | I held her to me as we fell across the bed , feeling her lithe life-force twitching against me as beautiful as a rainbow trout , leaping from a mill race into my outstretched arms . |
| 13 | I held her by her wrists to keep her delicate fingers out of my pockets . |
| 14 | I was so relieved it was all over and my baby was alright and I held him for the first time . |
| 15 | With my own nose barely above water I held him with his head just higher than mine , but he still was n't breathing . |
| 16 | I held him with one arm and the other lay between him and the small bump that was the baby . |
| 17 | I held him against my shoulder . |
| 18 | I held him in my arms . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'd promised I would never fall for the obvious attractions of another beautiful woman , but from the moment I held you in my arms my instinct told me that you were as different from Lotta as wine is from vinegar . ’ |
| 20 | I held you in my arms last night . |
| 21 | I held it between my own , uncovered it to see the fingers lying on mine : a square hand , fine-boned , fine-textured , not large . |
| 22 | She passed it across and I held it on my knees without opening it . |
| 23 | I held it at that . |
| 24 | As I held it in my hand it all came back to me . |
| 25 | Recently , I picked up a young bird which one of my cats had caught ; I held it in my hands in the hope that it might survive . |
| 26 | I am praised because I held it by the tail . ’ |
| 27 | to me hold them against their will ? '' ’ |
| 28 | The water soaks into the ground and becomes sucked in to a sandstone strata , which holds it like a sponge under the city . |
| 29 | They then wheeled in unison into a shaft of light which held them for a second or so before they soared over the car and away . |
| 30 | The Black Prince supposedly granted the ferry rights in 1364 to his porter William Lenche who had lost an eye at Poitiers and later that century they passed to the borough , which held them until the opening of the Tamar Bridge . |