Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [adv] hold [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her eyes strayed to the card that she still held in her hand and she almost started as she saw , written in plain bold print , a name that had featured with such regularity recently in the headlines of the business section of the local newspaper that she could not fail to recognise it . |
| 2 | There were so many cracks in it now that it barely held at all . |
| 3 | ‘ I will leave Lady Lavinia to tell you her plans for herself — if she still holds by them . |
| 4 | It scares me a bit , but I still hold onto her hands . |
| 5 | Generalizations hold for the known cases which prompted them but are not scientifically interesting unless they also hold for others . |
| 6 | However , we see the thesis as overambitious since it only holds for certain groups and issues and for a particular period of British politics — and that period , may have passed at least for the moment . |