Example sentences of "[noun] be hold the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ More or less , but I 've a feeling Nevil was holding the car door at the time . ’ |
| 2 | I like it 'cos you know when Daphne had a car crash , just because Jamie was in the car , my brother said that Jamie crashed the car and when the coffee shop blew up … my brother said 'cos Bronwyn was holding the baby when she saw it , he said that Jamie blew the coffee shop up [ laughs ] . |
| 3 | One of London 's leading salons is holding the sale of the century this month . |
| 4 | Outside , on the pavement , a fretworked wooden parrot with garish green plumage was holding the lunch menu in its beak . |
| 5 | Duvall was holding the gun now as he looked down at him , breathing heavily . |
| 6 | Kubitsky was holding the weapon , but it was Sandor who was smiling as he watched the others — Yuan , Zukov , Mubarak , even Vorontseff — as they climbed unarmed from the hatch . |
| 7 | In 1911–12 Major Morrison-Bell MP constructed a model to demonstrate these disparities of distribution and had toured the country with it for propaganda purposes ; the obvious over-representation of Ireland was especially useful to a Unionist party that wished to claim that Redmond was holding the Empire to ransom . |
| 8 | In preparing a transfer deed , it is important to check whether the buyers are to hold the property in trust for themselves as joint tenants or as tenants in common . |
| 9 | Members of the Hazleton Action Group are holding the service together with Animal |
| 10 | Louis Montrose points out a fascinating consequence of this : ‘ If the world is a theatre and the theatre is an image of the world , then by reflecting upon its own artifice , the drama is holding the mirror up to nature ’ ( Montrose , ‘ Purpose of Playing ’ , 57 ) . |
| 11 | Mama was holding the baby in her arms when Death walked in the door . |
| 12 | Rain was holding the door for him and as he entered he stooped to kiss her forehead as he used to do . |
| 13 | Clothing was the principal function of textiles , just as the principal function of buckles , sleeve-fasteners , pins and brooches was to hold the clothing together . |
| 14 | The ankle muscles were holding the foot in an almost normal position — oblivious to the fact that the joints had nothing to rest on , that this was a classic case of a boy who would normally have ended up with a club foot . |
| 15 | Mr Dickinson said : ‘ From what I understand what has happened is that last year the county championships were held the week after the Spring Bank Holiday and some counties have automatically presumed that this would be the case this year Cleveland and Northumberland included . |
| 16 | The Senator also proposed an interim bureaucratic manoeuvre to head off the seminar : ‘ I genuinely fear that if the seminar is held the VEC will put itself at risk because you are giving a platform to people who are not sincere . |
| 17 | ‘ Then knock the lid down so that the rough edges are holding the lid in place , so to speak , and leave it again for a bit . |
| 18 | The original trust deed can not be traced but a more recent trust deed dated 1 October 1984 provides that the trustees are to hold the trust property , comprising the premises of the school and any additional site that may be acquired , for the purposes of a Roman Catholic Voluntary Aided School to be conducted in accordance with the Education Acts . |
| 19 | At the time of writing , committee member Jill Hewett is holding the fort in Convocation Office several mornings a week , whilst we seek a replacement . |
| 20 | Imagine the front hand on the mast is holding the hinge and the other ( back ) hand is placed on the boom level with the shoulder — as the imaginary door is closed , the power comes on . |
| 21 | The easiest way to cross-hatch is to hold the pastel as one would a pencil and make quick diagonal strokes from left to right and then use the other colour in the opposite direction from right to left . |
| 22 | The photo might have been modelled on those sent by the Red Brigades during the Moro kidnapping , but where those middle-class intellectuals had used the centre-left Repubblica to mark the date , Ruggiero Miletti was holding the Nazione , just the kind of paper which a bunch of good Catholic boys like the kidnappers would choose . |
| 23 | The British Patton Historical Society is holding the lunch in honour of General George S Patton . |
| 24 | Suddenly Lok understood that the man was holding the stick out to him but neither he nor Lok could reach across the river . |
| 25 | They said they would cut both babies ' throats and held a long kitchen knife to Salman 's throat , while Tanwaru was holding the child |
| 26 | Rosa was holding the baby , by the window . |
| 27 | The men were holding the wheelbarrow above their heads . |
| 28 | By 6am two women are holding the Parkside pit camp barrier aloft to greet incoming traffic . |
| 29 | And Dad was holding the door open . |
| 30 | She compares it with what she thinks is the right behaviour , judges what is wrong ( in this case , everything was right except the way Nina was holding the hammer ) , and then corrects the mistake by demonstrating the right way . |