Example sentences of "[adv] hold [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when you first see it , it can be rather frightening , so hold on to small children 's hands . |
| 2 | He said Libya was not being ‘ stubborn ’ , but merely holding out for an honourable solution to the crisis . |
| 3 | If they have never let their son or daughter go but are still jealously holding on to them , they may resent the marriage partner and therefore look for every possible fault . |
| 4 | But they admit that these babies had not achieved complete and independent toileting as they could only hold on to their eliminations for a few minutes and needed help to undress and get on the potty . |
| 5 | And as everything slipped away she could only hold on to the thought that somehow her murderer knew who she was . |
| 6 | Exactly that , although God knows confidence is difficult enough to hold on to . |
| 7 | Mr Eyadéma can not long hold on to power . |
| 8 | Better to hold on to power for a few days or hours longer . |
| 9 | A potential consignment was purportedly held back in the hope of a higher price . |
| 10 | Hodgskin failed to break into the charmed circle of the Edinburgh reviewers , and was constantly held back by his painful self-abnegation and the growing radicalism of his opinions . |
| 11 | It was clear then that Noriega only held on to power by two threads — popular apathy and the loyalty of the Panama Defence Force . |
| 12 | They found , however , that this relationship only held up for workers in small-town settings . |
| 13 | He supposed it was somewhere under the rug , perhaps held on to by old Josh as some sort of comforter . |
| 14 | But the odds were weighted against reason , and other parts of the mind , like some Resistance movement long held down in an oppressed country , came out into the open . |
| 15 | A recent academic study compared the training available to young people in this country and that available to young people in Germany — for so long held out as the model that all other countries should follow in this regard . |
| 16 | He merely held on to it , while Bruce pulled him , and with a gurgle of laughter the boy found the apple was in his hand . |
| 17 | God I do love you , Pippa , I just hold on to that . |
| 18 | Just hold on to your seat belt I 've got somebody right up our backside ! |
| 19 | Parnell was in jail , and the British authorities are desperately holding on to power as support for the Land League accelerates . |
| 20 | I eased down , just holding on for the silver medal , but it was the end of my Commonwealth Games . |
| 21 | There are some cases where I am just holding on to them and not cashing them in . ’ |
| 22 | I did n't know they were coming from She never said she sai just said I 'm just holding out for some |
| 23 | Annie thought , Ruthie , you liar , you do know , you 're just holding back in case we think you 're being heavy , theoretical male for godsake . |
| 24 | We watched her sway away holding on to the rails , her high curls shining , her figure neat , her intense musky scent lingering like a memory in the air after she herself had gone . |
| 25 | I say this with scorn , because the leader of the Labour party can no longer hold out to his people the prospect that they may change the law through this place . |
| 26 | Against the implacable opposition of its lord , Aylesbury failed utterly to hold on to the corporate status granted it in 1554 . |
| 27 | Because of this , we surrender to God our self-knowledge and our self-significance , all the things we struggle so desperately to hold on to in our egoism . |
| 28 | Unable to cope with her displacement , she tries desperately to hold on to her Frenchness . |
| 29 | If you could just hold on to them my son wid pick them up when he 's hame . |
| 30 | If his , his mum was n't there he 'd just hold on to her and that would be it would n't it ? |