Example sentences of "[conj] hold [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is Michael Wayland , who appears on television a lot , and who as a consequence can never remember anything unless it 's written on the Autocue , or held up beside the lens in front of him . |
| 2 | But it is not a model that holds up for the twentieth century , when liberalization of the divorce law was not a matter of last resort but was rather always proposed as a means of strengthening the institution of marriage ( by permitting those ‘ living in sin ’ to remarry ) ; when opinion shifted with dramatic speed , for example between the conservative recommendations of the 1956 Royal Commission on Divorce and the endorsement of profound liberalization given a mere ten years later by both the Law Commission and the Church of England ; and when the change in views of key institutions such as the Church of England were as important as those of lawyers . |
| 3 | Most people in the territories feared the PLO was in danger of rushing into some unsatisfactory settlement rather than holding out for the right conditions . |
| 4 | The involuntary expansions and contractions have the consequence that to hold on to the most aware response it may be a practical necessity to numb oneself to a local awareness which distracts from it . |
| 5 | So my suggestion and this is only a suggestion , the beards which in the past have been interpreted as a kind of erm epigrammatic signal , in other words a kind of erm sign on the face of the male as they 're deceived , my guess is that , th that beards may actually have evolved to protect the throat because erm the critical thing in , in killing somebody is to block the , the windpipe and that 's and in fact even , even lions do this , you saw in the film when a lion kills an antelope or something , he does n't go to all the trouble of making horrible gashes , he grabs the , the windpipe and holds on until the antelope or whatever it is is just er |
| 6 | The brief silence seemed to stretch down the long room and hold fast by the pillars of the door , and every eye in the hall fixed greedily on the three at the high table . |
| 7 | The crosser is required to tight-rope walk on the single strand below and hold on to the two other lines for balance . |
| 8 | Instead , look for a protein based product that is acid balanced to keep the cuticle tight and hold on to the colour . |
| 9 | And hold on to the bundles ! ’ |
| 10 | I 'll stay with you and hold on to the guns . |
| 11 | You sit on the saddle and try and keep your balance and hold on to the handlebars . |
| 12 | Hold the tape measure loosely round the pulled back curtain and hold back against the hook . |
| 13 | Mitchell is amongst those who argue against Firestone and hold out for the continuing relevance of Freud 's work . |
| 14 | With toes pointed downwards , raise the extended leg 6ins ( 15cm ) off the floor , leaning right over to the opposite side for balance and holding on to the ankle in front of you . |
| 15 | With toes pointed , raise the extended leg 6ins ( 1 5cm ) , leaning over to the opposite side for balance and holding on to the ankle in front . |
| 16 | She was slurring her words and holding on to the bar-top for support . |
| 17 | Not only that , it 's a full-fledged endangered species ( see ‘ Pigs in distress ’ ) , having disappeared entirely from the islands of Masbate , Bohol , Cebu , Guimaras and Sequijor , and holding on by the skin of its tusks only on Negros and Panay . |
| 18 | This is the kind of question which has no answer , since no difference between commitment and rhetoric will be discernable until refugees are faced with a real choice between some kind of a settlement falling short of the ideal and holding out for the ideal itself . |
| 19 | Some of the sites are enormously rich , however , and the history of palaeontology is punctuated by quite unscientific feuds between experts trying to find and hold on to the best sites for the most spectacular vertebrates . |
| 20 | It would have been customary to allow the animal its own head , and to hold on to the last truck , or hitch a lift by hanging onto the end . |
| 21 | The crab has a longer body than the other species shown here , and the legs are flattened and held away from the carapace . |
| 22 | I smiled understanding and held on to the last wedge of the broken window , catching glimpses of the brown Yucay River snaking its way between the terraced hills . |
| 23 | She yelled , as if touched by fire , and held on to the moment , her torso subsiding fraction by fraction . |
| 24 | He could hardly stand , and held on to the back of a chair , as she entered the room . |
| 25 | Friends and relatives continued to circle the liner in small boats ; a fox terrier , sent on ahead from Germany , was rowed out each day and held up towards the rail and its distant owners . |
| 26 | Taken and imprisoned and held fast in the black depths of the Dark Ireland . |
| 27 | Colour and variety are the keynotes of the series ; children 's attention is stimulated and held throughout by the bright and lively illustrations , and the variety of text and topic types , with subjects ranging from adventure and science fiction to factual material . |
| 28 | They kept as close as they could to the east bank of the stream and held generally towards the north . |
| 29 | Cliff , the concrete contractor , and Tessa , the schoolteacher , were flipped off the paddle boat in a suck hole and held underwater by the boiling currents for a few seconds before their life-jackets brought them spluttering to the surface . |
| 30 | As the tide rose , water was forced back up the Westbury Brook and held back by the sluice gates . |