Example sentences of "[prep] hold [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time of King William 's visit in 1861 , Prussian policy had been simply that of holding to the treaties of 1815 with no thought of altering the status quo . |
| 2 | A proper budding knife will be required — a penknife is no good at all — which is like a planting trowel in that both ends are used and the handle is not just for holding in the hand . |
| 3 | Hold on hold on the are |
| 4 | Dunedin charges £15 per holding for the sale , but for larger sums this can work out at less than a front-end trust fee . |
| 5 | Remember how your baby , after weeks of aimless standing around holding onto the fireguard , suddenly took five steps across the room when nobody was looking ? |
| 6 | After some months , the baby learns to walk along branches by holding onto the hairs of its mother 's rump . |
| 7 | Nationalists organized in " Citizens ' Committees " attempted to pre-empt the Estonian Supreme Soviet elections by holding at the end of February and in early March privately organized elections to a rival " Congress of Estonia " , intended as a revival of the parliament of the independent pre-war republic . |
| 8 | a game played by holding in the closed hand one or two items , the other player having to guess at the number . |