Example sentences of "[pron] hold [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I held up the intact bottle of rice wine I 'd finally recovered from the depths of my parka . |
| 2 | Arguably it is this aim which provides the ‘ ideological coherence which holds together the various initiatives and pieces of legislation ’ ( Stoker , 1988 , p. 251 ) introduced by the Conservative governments of the 1980s . |
| 3 | And while the performance of the Alpine is in the supercar league , the cost of using it , in terms of comfort , running costs and fuel economy , is definitely not — which holds out the enticing prospect of accomplishing long , fast continental journeys in great comfort and 25 mpg economy . |
| 4 | Provide containers of various shapes which hold approximately the same amount . |
| 5 | It was almost concealed by the small columns which held up the campanile roof , merely a shinier darkness in the dark . |
| 6 | And many films attacked the sort of conservative attitudes which held back the British war effort . |
| 7 | By contrast Marx and Engels saw the proletariat 's mission as breaking down the restrictions of capitalism which held back the full development of technology ; and they rejected as utopian any form of transition to socialism which was not brought about by a genuine ( and almost certainly violent ) social revolution . |
| 8 | She holds up the American education system as an answer to the supposed link between language and class mobility . |
| 9 | She held out the first page of the manuscript file for him to read . |
| 10 | The Prince and Princess of Wales came to a lonely hilltop in South Korea to honour the 900 men of the Gloucestershire Regiment who held back the Chinese Army pouring across the Imjin River in January 1951 . |
| 11 | During a visit to Korea , he laid a wreath at a memorial to the men who held back the full might of the Chinese army at the battle of Imjin River . |
| 12 | Religion 's as good as dead , there 's nothing to hold back the New People , they 'll grow stronger and stronger and swamp us . |
| 13 | They held up the bright new diesel buses and , even worse , blocked the progress of private motorists in bulbous Austins and lumpen Humbers in canyon-like city thoroughfares . |
| 14 | Tonight he holds back the ill-concealed shudders and caresses the swelling head , he bends and kisses the skin exposed . |
| 15 | He held up the second finger . |
| 16 | Again he mirrored her meanings back , and he held up the distorted black lumps that were her errors of syntax . |
| 17 | In a footnote he held up the Greek Doric style as the model for a reformed modern architecture . |
| 18 | He held up the soft peach wool jacket that Kate intended to wear , but there was a sudden rueful expression on his face as he met her eyes again . |
| 19 | He held up the green ribbon . |
| 20 | He held up the third finger . |
| 21 | He held up the buff folder . |
| 22 | He held out the second fact-sheet , and Cowley glanced down as Bodie said , ‘ A ‘ K ’ registration Mercedes SL . |
| 23 | Old Red watched the older man 's slow movements clinically as he held aside the red screen , then followed him out to talk . |
| 24 | Thus he held together the two things which in the Enlightenment tended to fall apart , and to be defined in opposition to each other — faith against knowledge , revelation against reason . |
| 25 | If thought and study had been restricted to whatever held out the visible prospect of material advantage , that explosive corruscation of human achievement which is European civilisation would never have occurred . |