Example sentences of "[noun pl] hold [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her eyes hold me like magnets . |
| 2 | Even before he got to her she was mesmerised , the dark eyes holding her with complete ease , and she had to bring herself quickly back to the present to do what she had planned and set matters on an even footing straight away . |
| 3 | For a long moment all she could do was stare back at him , his dark fathomless eyes holding her in thrall . |
| 4 | ‘ No , ’ he agreed , his glittering black eyes holding hers with their remorseless stare . |
| 5 | His eyes holding hers in an almost hypnotic stare , he asked softly , ‘ What 's so terrible about a kiss ? ’ |
| 6 | These are the leather straps you put round the bird 's legs to hold it on the glove that you have to wear when you handle birds of prey . |
| 7 | His eyes held hers with a thoughtful appraisal . |
| 8 | His eyes held hers with a kind of taunting amusement . |
| 9 | Shamlou 's dark eyes held him in a contemptuous gaze . |
| 10 | UK Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd echoed the argument that there was an " option for peace " and that " the Iraqis hold it in their hands " . |
| 11 | As Pound confessed in another letter in 1933 : ‘ Most Cantos have in them ‘ binding matter ’ , i.e. lines holding them into the whole poem and these passages do n't much help the reader of an isolated fragment … |
| 12 | The strong-smelling ‘ stewed ’ strips of blanket were hot , and as I wrung out the excess water , I needed tongs to hold them for the first few minutes . |
| 13 | His thumbs explored her ears as his fingertips soothed the back of her neck and as Jenna moulded herself closer his hands moved to her body , tracing her spine and then sliding down to her hips to hold her against him . |
| 14 | The villagers hold them in awe and think of them as men of the world . |
| 15 | I 've left it with two screws holding it at the moment . |
| 16 | This is only as good as the screws holding it in place in your front door . |
| 17 | All ways to hold him for a while . |
| 18 | The locks the Minoans fitted to their doors were little more than wooden bolts with pegs to hold them in place . |
| 19 | If India 's government is persuaded that warming will produce better and more reliable monsoons , then it might decide that the interests of its burgeoning population would be better served by global warming than by attempts to hold it in check . |
| 20 | To , to make contingency plans to hold it on a day when we do n't need the cooperation of the employers in terms of time off |
| 21 | Meanwhile SunSelect continues to be skittish on any questions about WABI 's list price , packaging , availability or anything else substantive , ostensibly because of the gala rollout it has planned for May 5 at the 500-seat Great American Music Hall in San Francisco , having ditched plans to hold it at the giant Paramount Theater in Oakland , California . |
| 22 | The findings of the male researchers , she claims , are dogged by what she calls the problem of women ‘ whose sexuality remains more diffuse , whose perception of self is so much more tenaciously embedded in relationships with others and whose moral dilemmas hold them in a mode of judgment that is insistently contextual ’ . |
| 23 | Or was it ? she wondered , her memory reaching out to the feel of Silas 's arms holding her against him , and to his lips resting upon her own . |
| 24 | Surely any minute she would wake up and find Marc lying beside her , his arms holding her in the loving way of barely twelve hours ago ? |
| 25 | 1979 , 1982 ) , not only do stags that hold large harems hold them for longer within particular breeding seasons than those which hold smaller harems ( Fig. 23. 1a ) , but individuals that are consistently successful in securing large harems throughout their lives tend to live longer than their less successful competitors ( Fig. 23.1b ) . |
| 26 | The inductor L2 should not ‘ sing ’ , if it does you may need a fraction more tightness on the studding nuts holding it in place , but do this with extreme care . |
| 27 | His hands held her to him and their bodies moved together in the most intimate way with no thought of denial . |
| 28 | Other times it was dinner ; twice he took her dancing , the smoochy old-fashioned sort of dancing , not a disco , the sort where she was right up against him and his hands held her in a strong , commanding kind of way . |
| 29 | Some of them try to dissociate themselves from their group and ‘ fondly imagine ’ their identity to be ‘ different from what others hold it to be ’ . |
| 30 | Blood , for instance , decides in the case of certain army posts , whose incumbents hold them by virtue of family connections , nepotism or favouritism ; but gold gets its due through the circumstance that all army commissions can be bought and sold for coin of the realm ’ ( Marx 1953 ) . |