Example sentences of "[noun pl] hold [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles 's territories could already have been described as an empire , in the sense that he ruled over a collection of different political units held together by the allegiance his subjects felt they owed him rather than through a sense of common institutions or common language which could serve as the foundation for a unifying national spirit . |
| 2 | The longer that socialist parties held on to the old orthodoxies , the worse they have suffered . |
| 3 | Nuremberg will forever be associated with the trials held here after the last war , which is a shame . |
| 4 | And the long-suffering elder , which always looks beautiful , graceful , however much you cut it , with its lacy plates held out to the sun . |
| 5 | Lounge Bar , Cafe — Concerts and discos held regularly throughout the summer season . |
| 6 | How could I be , there ai n't no fertility cords holding on to the fanny . |
| 7 | ( Nathan had passed it once , and remembered a sky lit by ragged flames , torches held aloft by the refineries . ) |
| 8 | The Swimathon is a national event with swims held all around the country . |
| 9 | Mungo had a vision of his dark head tilted back to drink the rain , and his outstretched palms held up to the sun . |
| 10 | The passion of his kisses on her throat were leaving her weak and she had to will her fingers to hold on to the bodice . |
| 11 | As long as doctors hold on to the role of being omnipotent , it is not surprising they need defences . |
| 12 | The dog refused to budge , so , instructing the two older girls to hold tight to the younger , I heaved up the 196lb of stubborn fur and staggered to the railing I went down to extricate my struggling son and carried him upwards followed by shrieking pleas of , ‘ Daddy , do n't leave us ’ and ‘ I want a carry ’ , from the frantic tadpole in charge of two red-faced little girls who were now starting to show signs of stain and filling tear-ducts . |
| 13 | Whereas in the past teachers held on to the professionalism of hearing children read as their specialist preserve , they have now realised that perhaps their professionalism lies elsewhere . |
| 14 | A ghostly pale grey shape rises from the woodland edge , fingered wings held typically in the shallow V : a male hen harrier . |
| 15 | When they saw Frick , whom they had been told to expect , the Sturmabteilungen snapped to attention , their arms held out in the traditional Nazi salute . |
| 16 | Although women were in practice doing exactly the same work as certain categories of men , they too perceived the division of labour as a gender division , and took as their point of reference for equality the " all-round comp " , whom both masters and men held up as the exemplar , rather than the humbler linesman . |
| 17 | The amount of these entitlements has been actuarially assessed and is fully funded by assets held independently of the Group . |
| 18 | Striking spikes of yellow antirrhinum-like flowers held well above the water . |
| 19 | In no time at all Travis had a good fire going , and the heat from it drew her to her knees beside it , hands held out to the warmth . |
| 20 | These are women holding on to the value of their tears , but there are many others who have been made to feel ashamed . |
| 21 | and only occasional services held there by the various members of the Presbytery . |
| 22 | • Fins held close to the body |
| 23 | Handsome glaucous foliage and erect narrow spikes of white and yellow blooms held just above the water . |
| 24 | A loose net was fixed between the prongs of the ‘ Y ’ and thus , with the open prongs held firmly in the bed of the river , the fishermen would wait quietly for the fish to run into his net . |
| 25 | Customs sources say that raves held just over the border are attracting hundreds of teenagers from all over Ulster — and drug dealers . |
| 26 | So many times held up at the Falcon Gate , so many times made to open his briefcase and his empty sandwich box and turn his empty coffee flask upside down when he was anxious to get home , so many times subjected to their questions when he was going about his business visiting other corners of the Establishment . |
| 27 | Scrubby hawthorns hold back at the brink . |
| 28 | But he would not let her , her stubborn sailor , he held on to her as the walls held on to the moving air within her house . |
| 29 | A handful of snipers held out to the last , and received no quarter . |
| 30 | Coates ( 1985 , pp. 27 , 77 ) , for example , argues that in recent decades narrative has broken down to be replaced by a cinema of ‘ isolated heterogeneous events held together by the ramshackle constructions of Victorian melodrama ’ , and that from the mid-1960s we have seen the dissolution of the distinction between realist and non-realist film . |