Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun pl] hold the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just when we expected to see Cordoba produce an extra gear as Walter Swinburn got to work with the whip , the son of El Gran Senor capitulated and it was Balla Cove who produced extra reserves to hold the late thrust of Rock City . |
| 2 | For some centuries Wales had been an area where rather independent lords raised private armies to hold the Welsh down , and sometimes turned these armies against the king . |
| 3 | It usually took two men to hold the tyre and if the smith thought the fit was satisfactory — at this time it was half-an-inch larger than the wheel — the boy helping was ordered to throw buckets of cold water over the still very hot steel which would immediately contract and tightly hold the rim . |
| 4 | Mr Delors said that in the short run MEPs should be given greater powers to hold the EC executive responsible when national governments transferred powers to Brussels — under a new European treaty for economic and monetary union . |
| 5 | The arch of the lyre was fixed by mortise and tenon joints , strengthened by metal plates , which carried six pegs holding the strings . |
| 6 | Castile itself had been named after the fortresses built along the border between Christian and Moslem Spain , and essentially those who held these castles held the greatest degree of control over the lands on either side . |