Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [adj] hold the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our hood added insult to embarrassment by breaking the poppers on its leading edge one after the other until David Vivian found himself circumnavigating the M25 one evening with one hand on the wheel and another holding the hood to keep it from flying off . |
| 2 | Silver Reed tell me the double knit ribber does have a yarn holder and this holds the yarns you are not using at the end of the needle bed , making changing by hand easier . |
| 3 | One student holds an end of the optical fibre on top of the l.e.d. in the transmitter and another holds the distant end on the top of the phototransistor . |
| 4 | Of course , if the adhesion at the interface is too weak then the material as a whole will be weakened so that , when there is no adhesion at all , one has to have some arrangement like cloth or rope or basket-work to hold the material together by friction . |
| 5 | To make the joint , the nut is screwed on to the fitting using one spanner to turn the nut and another to hold the body of the fitting , making sure the pipe is pushed fully home against the ‘ stop ’ . |