Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] hold [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Desperately I tried to hold down the rising sickness I felt about the theft of my writing to listen to all he was telling . |
| 2 | I had to hold down the wheelbarrow by sitting on it while taking off my hat , changing into my jeans , and putting on goggles and a smog-mask . |
| 3 | During the second half of the sixteenth century , hundreds of medieval sculptures and carved images of saints were destroyed or removed , the colourful wall-paintings which had decorated most churches were whitewashed , stained glass was shattered or taken away , and the rood lofts which had held up the great crucifixes and figures of the Virgin Mary and St John were pulled down . |
| 4 | Joaquín Villalobos , 41 , a senior FMLN commander , made an historic appearance on June 17 before the US House of Representatives commission on hemispheric affairs to help explain the obstacles which had held up the peace process . |
| 5 | Rachel bit her lip as she struggled to hold back the tears . |
| 6 | If you had n't come along when you did … ’ she trailed off as she struggled to hold back the tears . |
| 7 | Senior officers may or may not have been involved , but they certainly made public their opposition to party politicians who had held back the growth of military expenditure in budget balancing financial policies . |
| 8 | After some discussion we decided to hold up the cheque for a day or two instead of refusing it , while I made some informal inquiries . |
| 9 | We have him bang to rights on the kiosk heist and Special Forces caught him redhanded holding up the auction room and trying to make off with a green canvas portmanteau . ’ |
| 10 | Indeed he appeared to hold out the offer of an alliance with the radicals , insisting that there should be no split " among the democratic , progressive forces which are dedicated to carrying out transformations in society " . |
| 11 | There were a number of clues available to Robson : if West had still held the guarded queen of clubs he would almost certainly have kept and exited with his last spade ; if he had held both the king and queen of clubs he would have been equally likely to win the first club with the queen ; and , from what had happened so far , it looked as though West had started with more clubs than his partner . |
| 12 | Aged only twenty-four he had held down the post of KGB officer attached to the 502nd Guards Armoured Division stationed at Magdeburg in the German Democratic Republic . |