Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] hold [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you force his limbs into clothes , the same effect follows : in the arm this can cause severe shoulder pain which will hold up the patient 's rehabilitation . |
| 2 | They must all be wide enough to take the buttons which will hold down the top . |
| 3 | Fran took a slow deep breath , then another and another , but there was no way she could hold back the knifing pain . |
| 4 | And it would n't be me , so , that killed you , but God himself , for if he wanted you alive , sure he 'd hold back the tide for you like Moses and the Red Sea ! ’ |
| 5 | At last nothing can hold back the revolution — the result in his famous phrase is that ‘ the expropriators are expropriated ’ . |