Example sentences of "[vb mod] hold [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this is done it is probable that this will have the effect of releasing any original tenant or surety from liability in the event that the tenant should hold over under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 after the expiry of the break-notice ( cf Junction Estates Ltd v Cope ( 1974 ) 27 P & CR 482 ; City of London Corporation v Fell ( 1993 ) 04 EG 115 ) . |
| 2 | Carol Salmon , who runs the inn with her husband Richard , said : ‘ We had the planning permission last year but with the recession we thought we should hold on to our money . ’ |
| 3 | Of its 450 members , 162 last month signed a letter arguing that for the time being Ukraine should hold on to its nuclear weapons . |
| 4 | His conclusion , probably acceptable to most parliamentarians , is that Ukraine should ratify START 1 now , but should hold on to the 46 missiles which that treaty does not cover ( though the Lisbon protocol does ) , and delay accession to the NPT . |
| 5 | Red-brick universities , inner-city polytechnics and the Open University have dented that assumption ; but perhaps there are still features of the student experience which we should hold on to if higher education is to offer a cultural enlargement ? |
| 6 | What the wife back home should hold on to is that , provided their relationship was good enough — and that does n't have to be perfect — in the first place , then the marriage has a good chance of survival . |
| 7 | Well while we were all delighted about the tremendous increase in income two years ago we were also a little concerned about how we should hold on to it , but we have . |
| 8 | Having realised how crucial START 1 and NPT ratification are to the West , many Ukrainians — 90% , according to the latest opinion polls — believe their country should hold out for financial compensation ; the current price tag , described as covering the costs of dismantling the warheads , is $1 billion . |
| 9 | You must hold on to the hurt . |
| 10 | The under sheriff must hold on to the balance for 14 days in case any steps should be taken to make the defendant bankrupt , in which case he would have to pay the money he has recovered to the receiver . |
| 11 | Yet we must hold on to the basic idea that science discovers the truth of how the world works . |
| 12 | This is the issue which occupies Anne Phillips , Sylvia Walby and Michèle Barrett in particular , with a certain consensus that , after all , we must hold out for a version of modernism ( against post-modernism ) , and what Phillips calls a ‘ middle route ’ which retains its aspiration to universalism . |
| 13 | Among the speakers who had convinced the Bosnian Serbs that they must hold out against the world was a guest of honour , a painter called Milic Od Macve . |
| 14 | I 'll hold on to mine . |
| 15 | I 'll hold on to you dear . |
| 16 | I 'll hold on to this . |
| 17 | But I doubt he 'll hold out for the money . |
| 18 | Pike was curled up into a ball , like a hedgehog , clutching his wig to him the way a kid might hold on to its teddy before going to sleep . |
| 19 | When he found himself in front his main concern was not whether he might hold on to win but whether he would follow the right course . |
| 20 | The announcement came as no great surprise ; except in as much as it had been thought the family might hold back in the lifetime of Sir John . |
| 21 | And I 'd hold on to his ears and yell with terror and excitement . |
| 22 | ‘ She 'd hold out for a while but it would always be made up after he came back with the roses . |
| 23 | She glanced nervously at the windows , wondering how they 'd hold out against fiercer gusts than those already battering the house . |
| 24 | This nesting store could hold up to sixteen operands , and is illustrated in Figure 3.9 . |
| 25 | The Ashleys decorated it plainly in white and left it as bare as possible , apart from two rails which could hold up to 500 garments . |
| 26 | The second question was whether an increasingly beleaguered Gerry Adams could hold on to West Belfast . |
| 27 | This apparent advantage over a predominantly rural rebel zone would only be maintained , however , if the Republic could hold on to its territory , overcome the isolation of the north coast from the rest of the zone , put its precious metal reserves to good use , pay for essential raw materials and feed its large urban population . |
| 28 | In which case , if our relationship was already wrecked beyond repair , I could hold on to the phetam . |
| 29 | This means it could hold on with a couple of limbs whilst feeding with the others . |
| 30 | I debated whether to be sick or not myself , and decided that I could hold out for another half hour . |