Example sentences of "[vb mod] hold [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may find that the writer was completely biased in his views and that he falsified his evidence , in which case he is a perjurer and we should hold him in contempt . |
| 2 | In the circumstances , it was reasonable he should hold me like this . |
| 3 | The demands made by the rebels provide the clearest guide to their grievances , and according to the Anonimalle Chronicle those put forward by the Essex men at Mile End on 14 June were that they should be allowed to seize and punish traitors , and that no man should be made a serf nor do homage or any type of service to a lord in return for land ; instead they should hold it at a rent of 4d. an acre . |
| 4 | It should hold us in suspense and give us a sense of waiting and expectation for the more important message which is to follow . |
| 5 | So I 'll hold him to his word . ’ |
| 6 | " I 'll hold you to it . " |
| 7 | I 'll hold you to that . |
| 8 | So by Christmas Mickey , we 'll hold you to that one . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll hold it for you , ’ Nutty said to Gary . |
| 10 | I 'll hold it for you . ’ |
| 11 | Here , I 'll hold it for you . |
| 12 | I 'll hold it for you . |
| 13 | ‘ We 'll hold it at Luke 's place , of course . |
| 14 | Put the cheque in the mail today with that date on it and I 'll hold it until then before banking it . ’ |
| 15 | But driver safety was far from being Jackie 's only hobby horse and the first thing I noticed about Jackie — and I do n't think he 'll hold it against me to say so — was his incredible garrulity . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , I know I 've been a trial to you ever since Mother died , and running away with Garry was n't the smartest thing I 've ever done , but at least I met Roman because I was foolish and I do n't think he 'll hold it against me , will he ? ’ |
| 17 | As I looked at her , I thought of her shrinking , like someone in a fairytale , and how one day I might hold her in the palm of my hand with her little voice squeaking commands at me as if she was a mouse I 'd picked up in the garden . |
| 18 | ( With an inattentive , hyperactive child you might hold him in front of you and ask him to repeat your request as a check that he has ‘ taken it in ’ . ) |
| 19 | Herluin might hold it against the boy that he had disgraced Ramsey not so much by attempting theft , but by making a botch of it , but Herluin had also been of the abbot 's party . |
| 20 | ‘ Sounds like it , ’ she mumbled , realising that he could hold her in his arms , yet be unaware of her presence because his mind was full of the stream and the bridge . |
| 21 | and this is why military strategies have always said we were gon na get we could hold them for a year , two years maybe three , but in the preventional warfare we would start loosing and military strategy have always said along that it would probably be somebody like France or us that would first use the nuclear weapon |
| 22 | Do n't know if we could hold them to , to it . |
| 23 | Mr Gotobed could hold it in his two hands . |
| 24 | The society of Raasay was so self-contained that he could hold it in his palm and turn it this way and that . |
| 25 | ‘ We 've had to chop and change on a regular basis this season , but it could hold us in good stead because when everyone is fit again , we 'll know we have people who can operate well in different positions . ’ |
| 26 | Scepticism and an attitude of indifference to the prospect of final extinction have proved , as a matter of practical experience , no adequate substitute for the doctrine of immortality , however illusory one may hold it to be . |
| 27 | Dutch chiaroscuro , dark and sombre , would hold him for a while yet , until he freed himself from Rembrandt , Millet , and Israëls and turned to Delacroix 's symphonies of colour . |
| 28 | Even if the Treaty had been signed , the Court would hold it to be unreviewable . |
| 29 | The closed doors would hold it for him and he would smoke it on the way back as he had smoked that earlier one on the way down from Finchley Road . |
| 30 | Lighting the gas , she secured the kettle within the rails which would hold it in place , then snatched up the dishcloth . |