Example sentences of "[conj] hold [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under this pressure , all ordinary human ambivalence and doubt is outlawed : adopters become guilty or angry when the relationship does not proceed according to the fantasy or reality of ordinary parenting ; children suppress their fantasies of an alternative life with birth parents — or hold on to that fantasy all the more tenaciously — and birth mothers , in particular , are pushed into a denial of their own experience and feelings . |
| 2 | At the same time , for those who have not arrived at , or hold back from such a step of faith , the Kingdom is not yet . |
| 3 | So it will tend to pull and it almost definitely is either reaching or pulling or holding something or holding on for your life , |
| 4 | A director would instruct dealers to tell their clients that an announcement was pending " in order to persuade them to buy more or to hold on to stock they wished to sell . |
| 5 | The capacity of the brain to conceive or hold on to any information . |
| 6 | This is Michael Wayland , who appears on television a lot , and who as a consequence can never remember anything unless it 's written on the Autocue , or held up beside the lens in front of him . |
| 7 | In addition to the above payments an RFL who is a partner in or held out as a partner in an MNP is required to produce evidence of payment of the appropriate contribution to the Solicitors ' Indemnity Fund . |
| 8 | This meant that it could not be used if it was the result of a ‘ fear of prejudice or hope of advantage , exercised or held out by a person in authority ’ or if it was occasioned by ‘ oppression ’ . |
| 9 | This is perhaps believed by practitioners rather than being a view that holds up to epistemological scrutiny . |
| 10 | But it is not a model that holds up for the twentieth century , when liberalization of the divorce law was not a matter of last resort but was rather always proposed as a means of strengthening the institution of marriage ( by permitting those ‘ living in sin ’ to remarry ) ; when opinion shifted with dramatic speed , for example between the conservative recommendations of the 1956 Royal Commission on Divorce and the endorsement of profound liberalization given a mere ten years later by both the Law Commission and the Church of England ; and when the change in views of key institutions such as the Church of England were as important as those of lawyers . |
| 11 | Most people in the territories feared the PLO was in danger of rushing into some unsatisfactory settlement rather than holding out for the right conditions . |
| 12 | It recommends that developing countries seek " advance payments and relatively small royalties rather than holding out for higher royalties that may never materialise " . |
| 13 | The involuntary expansions and contractions have the consequence that to hold on to the most aware response it may be a practical necessity to numb oneself to a local awareness which distracts from it . |
| 14 | He saw how she relaxed — or tried to , for there was still a part of her that held out against him — and smiled inwardly . |
| 15 | So my suggestion and this is only a suggestion , the beards which in the past have been interpreted as a kind of erm epigrammatic signal , in other words a kind of erm sign on the face of the male as they 're deceived , my guess is that , th that beards may actually have evolved to protect the throat because erm the critical thing in , in killing somebody is to block the , the windpipe and that 's and in fact even , even lions do this , you saw in the film when a lion kills an antelope or something , he does n't go to all the trouble of making horrible gashes , he grabs the , the windpipe and holds on until the antelope or whatever it is is just er |
| 16 | It shows something of the best that human beings are capable of , and hints too of their tragic failure to grasp that best and hold on to it . |
| 17 | The crosser is required to tight-rope walk on the single strand below and hold on to the two other lines for balance . |
| 18 | Instead , look for a protein based product that is acid balanced to keep the cuticle tight and hold on to the colour . |
| 19 | Curve the body to one side and hold on to a part of your leg that you can reach easily , stretching the other arm straight up . |
| 20 | Daisy had brought her sketch pad , but found it difficult to capture the action and hold on to a straining Ethel . |
| 21 | And hold on to the bundles ! ’ |
| 22 | Mary , you come and hold on to her . |
| 23 | Now they wear little except shorts and light rubber-soled pumps and hold on to vertical cliff walls like flies with a combination of sticky powder on their fingers , the faith of an Indian fakir , and tons of hardware in the shape of bolts , runners and slings hammered into the rocks . |
| 24 | Come and hold on to me . ’ |
| 25 | I 'll stay with you and hold on to the guns . |
| 26 | You sit on the saddle and try and keep your balance and hold on to the handlebars . |
| 27 | So the first number , listen to this the first number and try and hold on to it . |
| 28 | Try and hold on to twelve numbers , here we go . |
| 29 | Take your bag and hold on to me . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ OK , now try and relax and hold on to me . |