Example sentences of "[art] [noun] holding out [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lady with the upright hair who Gloria said had a screw loose , clattered into the bedroom holding out a steaming jug on a tray . |
| 2 | He proceeds up the garden path , one arm round his wife , the other holding out a gaily wrapped parcel to his clamouring young . |
| 3 | He bent to pick something up , then came round the side of the bed holding out the transistor . |
| 4 | They traversed lush apricot orchards without comment ; they ignored a shepherd holding out a bowl of milk ; wordlessly they returned to the village where Miss Fergusson , her calculated civility now restored to her , asked the elder if lodgings could be supplied to them without delay . |
| 5 | You 've the body of an angel holding out the lure of forbidden fruit , yet you 're as insubstantial as a nymph who flits through the mountain streams . |