Example sentences of "[prep] hold [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | However , despite holding on to the Senate for a total of six years and securing further landslides in the 1984 and 1988 presidential elections , the Republicans have not been able to bring about a real realignment — a fundamental reordering of political loyalties extending down through all levels of the political system . |
| 3 | First you dug a shallow grave capable of holding up to seven corpses at a time . |
| 4 | Other Commissariats were accused of holding on to rolling-stock that should be handed back now the war was over . |
| 5 | The snow hook is actually on the end of the tow line so that in the unlikely event of the karabiner unhooking — as it did once on me — — the hook stays close to you giving you an outside chance of holding on to the team . |
| 6 | In the 1980s older workers experienced great insecurity both in terms of holding on to their jobs and when searching for new work if unemployed . |
| 7 | It was never , as we have seen , the Labour government 's intention that the independence of India should be the prelude to a general nunc dimittis , and this disposes of the plausible notion that once India was gone the pointlessness of holding on to the rest of the dependent empire , supposedly acquired to protect the sea routes to Bombay , was immediately perceived . |
| 8 | LAST October The Economist published a study of John Major 's chances of holding on to his majority for a full five-year parliament . |
| 9 | She would speak of the necessity of holding on to a framework of belief , a reasonable percentage of belie |
| 10 | They offered no alternative strategies , but all believed that encouraging children to enjoy good books freely was the soundest way of holding on to readers and of creating a new generation of them . |
| 11 | To take advantage of the high rate of return on securities , people buy them now instead of holding on to their money . |
| 12 | A world champion confident of holding on to his crown . |
| 13 | If instead of holding on to the property X had given the property to Y no inheritance tax will be in point provided Y farmed the property ( or X survived the gift by seven years ) but in that case there would have been no capital gains tax uplift on the death of X. |
| 14 | In saying that go over , erm obviously I 'm all for that , but in terms of sort of holding on to what they 're doing I just had written down to mention that you know , we did n't have some sort of mechanism to , to share you know |
| 15 | Furthermore , because of the concentration of the Communist vote in certain traditional strongholds , they have high hopes of holding on to some 20 of their present 26 parliamentary seats , whereas the National Front and the Greens may not win any , or at best only a handful . |
| 16 | The idea of holding on to goods for four or five weeks is rather surprising . |
| 17 | It is contended that , at least where the interpretation of " the term " includes not only the contractual term but also any period of holding over or extension of the contractual term , this could result in the landlord being entitled to review the rent on the day of the commencement of any period of holding over under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 . |
| 18 | A Goebbels article in Das Reich at the beginning of March , in which he had emphasized ‘ the great honour of the victims and of holding out for the new Europe ’ , for which it was worthwhile ‘ fighting to the last man in order to go down in history ’ , met with heavy criticism . |
| 19 | The reason I joined the G M B and I 'm sure most of you was , in good times the G M B looks for improvements in pay and conditions , in bad times we look for holding on to what we have got . |
| 20 | they are caught , often , in a conflict between holding on to the security of their childhood dependence and striking out for independence . |
| 21 | The rest are too busy worrying about holding on to what they have or getting more . ’ |
| 22 | He told the French people that Algeria cost France too much and was not worth holding on to . |
| 23 | The shares took a bit of a knock due to profit-taking but are well worth holding ahead of major expansions . |
| 24 | And the thing about Fingers was always black now with holding on to the thingummy and then putting in drifts , and hammering , your fingers was get er drift was always on a in a a pan a wee pan with oil in it , drift was always full of oil and you stuck it in the hole . |
| 25 | The most important thing to remember about juggling is that , if you throw the ball well , the catch will look after itself , except for those one in ten people who have great difficulty in holding on to the ball . |
| 26 | Although Crawford had two safety wires attached to him , he succeeded in holding on to the car during all the filming . |
| 27 | ‘ Nevertheless , we believe that many farmers will decide there is no point in holding on to cattle if prices hold current levels . |
| 28 | This represented 1.34 off-farm workers per holding together with 0 . |
| 29 | Now that I 'd drawn the incident out from my unconscious , in much the same manner as Doctor Keylock or any of the so-called psychotherapists might have done , now that I 'd faced it , admitted it to myself , thought it all through without holding back from any of the horror of what happened that sunny afternoon seven years ago , I could see that , whoever 's fault the accident might have been , it certainly was n't mine . |
| 30 | Wicketkeeper Adam Parore delayed Sri Lanka 's victory bid by holding on for 223 minutes for a Test-best 60 . |