Example sentences of "[vb past] hold [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I realised this was unusual for an owl , because in the wild they tend to swallow their prey whole , so I simply stopped holding on to the chick and soon she was gobbling it up in one . |
| 2 | Boxing Day morning was grey and overcast but the rain promised to hold off at least until the evening . |
| 3 | Her senses were in a whirl but she tried to hold on to her sanity . |
| 4 | She tried to hold on to the heady rapture that was sweeping her along like a river in flood . |
| 5 | Not that he tried to hold on to her and not that Travis appeared to think there was anything out of the way in the two of them embracing — she gathered she had their engagement to thank for that . |
| 6 | When that happened , the others , those whose canoes sank , tried to hold on to the canoes that were still afloat . |
| 7 | I was going on with it , all the bumps were okay but when I was actually inside the building again I hung on to GrandPat to get to the steps but my hand slipped so I was going round with the current so I tried to hold on to the orange thing that they had put there but I slipped off that and I kept on going round and the lifeguard gave erm me and somebody else a hoop and we both grabbed onto it |
| 8 | Yet Gloria herself never seemed to hold on to more than the bare essentials that they had in their two paper carriers . |
| 9 | We all lived on top of each other and at any time one of us was probably irritated in some way by one of the others , but Tom seemed to hold on to it for a long time , never expressing his resentment until he just flipped into despising somebody . |
| 10 | The entire vast enterprise lurched into uneasy motion at last , in the first days of September , in the strange , ominous hush of the end of that disastrous summer , while France sat mute and made no sign , and the Scots , for all their gadfly raids , seemed to hold off from testing the defences of the north . |
| 11 | Here 's an imag-inary line-up Leeds might be fielding now if they 'd held on to the stars they rejected . |
| 12 | It was difficult to deny the belief she 'd held on to for so long . |
| 13 | The police explained why they 'd held on to the vehicles which were being kept near Malvern , not at Worcester . |
| 14 | I married Melanie , if I 'm honest , because she was the only one who 'd held out for a wedding-ring . ’ |
| 15 | With a mother who was active in B'nai B'rith , Anne Barth was offered a place on one of the early Kindertransporte , but her parents decided to hold back in the faint hope that conditions would improve . |
| 16 | Rangers keeper Tony Roberts failed to hold on to a corner from Alfons Groenendijk . |
| 17 | Frantically , in the last half of the fight , he sought to hold on to his title . |
| 18 | Becky kept holding on to the picture . |
| 19 | That Iraq never once even nibbled at the goodies has convinced the administration that diplomacy was always doomed , because Mr Hussein meant to hold on to Kuwait no matter what . |
| 20 | HTV 's advertising revenue rose 11.8 per cent to £101.8m , and the group managed to hold on to a creditable market share of 6.4 per cent as advertising has been sucked to South-east England . |
| 21 | The so- called middle class leaders of the P.N.M. have , up until now , managed to hold on to power , which is extraordinary considering they were ‘ so completely without ideas of any kind ’ . |
| 22 | David Plange added another try for the home side but Widnes fought back with further scores from Bobby Goulding and Stuart Spruce but the Eagles managed to hold on for victory . |
| 23 | She struggled to hold on to her composure , closing her eyes against the tears . |
| 24 | Underlining the British government 's commitment to link aid and democratic practices , he made a strong statement in favour of multiparty democracy , but appeared to hold back from criticism of Kenya 's human rights record , saying at a press conference that " when you look at other countries in Africa , Kenya 's record is good " . |
| 25 | Ann said hold on to the pattern , she said I do n't know what to do , erm knit them |
| 26 | Hitler 's extraordinary popular standing , built up in the peacetime years on the foundations of his perceived personal achievement in overcoming economic and political crisis , ridding Germany of unemployment , and making the nation great again through an astonishing series of diplomatic coups , was maintained in the first phase of the war ; it was then even further elevated through the scarcely conceivable run of military victories attained with minimal loss and sacrifice and , not least , through the prospect he continued to hold up of an imminent glorious end to the war . |
| 27 | For a minute she continued to hold on to me . |
| 28 | Despite the military superiority of the government forces , the rebels continued to hold on to territory in the south . |
| 29 | To begin with Charlie was not quite sure what was happening , but he liked the sensation so much that he just continued to hold on to her , and after a time even began to press his tongue against hers . |
| 30 | Surkov always had to hold on to his temper . |