Example sentences of "[noun pl] and hold [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was slurring her words and holding on to the bar-top for support . |
| 2 | Raise the elbows , head and shoulders towards the knees and hold up for 3 counts . |
| 3 | Lying down , with knees bent towards the chest , raise the elbows , head and shoulders towards the knees and hold up for 5 counts . |
| 4 | Raise the elbows head and shoulders towards the knees and hold up for 5 counts . |
| 5 | Raise the elbows , head and shoulders towards the knees and hold up for 5 counts . |
| 6 | Raise the elbows , head and shoulders towards the knees and hold up for 5 counts . |
| 7 | Raise the elbows , head and shoulders towards the knees and hold up for 5 counts . |
| 8 | Raise the elbows , head and shoulders towards the knees and hold up for 5 counts . |
| 9 | Lying as shown , raise the elbows head and shoulders towards the knees and hold up for 5 counts . |
| 10 | Lying as shown raise the elbows , head and shoulders towards the knees and hold up for 5 counts . |
| 11 | Lying as shown , raise the elbows , head and shoulders towards the knees and hold up for 5 counts . |
| 12 | Lying as shown , raise the elbows , head and shoulders towards the knees and hold up for 5 counts . |
| 13 | Hankin , who spent 18 months at Peterborough under John Wile before being released in 1985 , saw his young braves survive numerous corners and hold on to a point against a side who have seen off Liverpool and Newcastle at home this season . |
| 14 | Design by Dr Ibrahim Alkhattat , the workshop will be built from small diameter larch poles contained in steel shoes and held down with a tension wire . |
| 15 | The instance here is of Stavrogin pretending to the provincial governor that he has a secret to communicate to him , and , when the unsuspecting old man ‘ hastily and trustfully ’ inclines his head , seizing his ear in his teeth and holding on to it , biting hard . |
| 16 | Repeat 3 more times and hold up for 10 counts each time . |
| 17 | Repeat 3 more times and hold up for 10 counts each time . |
| 18 | Repeat 3 more times and hold up for 10 counts each time . |
| 19 | Repeat 4 more times and hold up for 10 counts each time . |
| 20 | Repeat 5 more times and hold up for 10 counts each time . |
| 21 | They rejected bananas and held on to buttoned coats . |
| 22 | Brackley , leading 6-5 after seven ends , collected scores on the next six to build a cushion of eight shots and held on to finish 17-9 ahead . |
| 23 | All around them people sat on their boxes and held on to precious bundles , patiently waiting for whatever might happen next . |
| 24 | There was a little tentative transit-taking on board some yachts , but most dispensed with esoteric racing rites and held back from the melee to claim clean air and water . |
| 25 | Now they wear little except shorts and light rubber-soled pumps and hold on to vertical cliff walls like flies with a combination of sticky powder on their fingers , the faith of an Indian fakir , and tons of hardware in the shape of bolts , runners and slings hammered into the rocks . |
| 26 | So far convoys of humanitarian aid have been stopped at will by the militias and held up for days , if not weeks , despite their protection by armed UN peacekeepers . |