Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] hold the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bend from the waist until the torso is horizontal , the arms are hanging out straight below , and you holding the barbell with hands shoulder width apart . |
| 2 | OPHELIA has been sewing and she holds the garment . |
| 3 | Taken neat the spirit burned her throat and she held the glass cupped between her hands , staring into space . |
| 4 | Then he was gone and she held the receiver for a moment feeling unexpectedly bereft . |
| 5 | It is quieter here , and we hold the shot for a time to allow it to make its impact … |
| 6 | Long ago it was stolen from us , and we hold the memory of it dear ; now that the powers of darkness have grown so strong , Andernesse is the one safe place for it . |
| 7 | Expect them to be hammered and they hold the eventual World Cup winners to a point : expect them to see off a side which had not won in the Championship for three years and they submit weakly . |
| 8 | This does not seem to affect his boxing , however , for he won the title for which he challenges tonight twice , and he held the light flyweight championship through three defences . |
| 9 | And he held the elements of mental propositions to be ideas , just as those of verbal propositions are words . |
| 10 | T'zin 's gold-sheathed talons were only half retracted , and he held the goblet delicately between them . |
| 11 | In 1880 he was elected Liberal MP for Montgomeryshire and he held the seat for the next fourteen years . |
| 12 | And he held the wages of the afternoon of him . |
| 13 | So I said well if I go up me being light , I 'll go up and he holds the ladder |
| 14 | As well as its management of the floating debt , it had increasingly taken over the handling of the service payments on the funded debt , and it held the balances of many departments of state as well as of provincial tax gatherers . |
| 15 | The cliffs are the highest in Britain , it is our most remote inhabited island and it holds the biggest gannet colony in the world . |
| 16 | but I held the wobbly head of a boy |
| 17 | Geoff Link 's smile was not quite right , it had a certain relief , of course , but it held the promise of something more . |