Example sentences of "[prep] hold [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , despite holding on to the Senate for a total of six years and securing further landslides in the 1984 and 1988 presidential elections , the Republicans have not been able to bring about a real realignment — a fundamental reordering of political loyalties extending down through all levels of the political system . |
| 2 | The snow hook is actually on the end of the tow line so that in the unlikely event of the karabiner unhooking — as it did once on me — — the hook stays close to you giving you an outside chance of holding on to the team . |
| 3 | It was never , as we have seen , the Labour government 's intention that the independence of India should be the prelude to a general nunc dimittis , and this disposes of the plausible notion that once India was gone the pointlessness of holding on to the rest of the dependent empire , supposedly acquired to protect the sea routes to Bombay , was immediately perceived . |
| 4 | If instead of holding on to the property X had given the property to Y no inheritance tax will be in point provided Y farmed the property ( or X survived the gift by seven years ) but in that case there would have been no capital gains tax uplift on the death of X. |
| 5 | they are caught , often , in a conflict between holding on to the security of their childhood dependence and striking out for independence . |
| 6 | And the thing about Fingers was always black now with holding on to the thingummy and then putting in drifts , and hammering , your fingers was get er drift was always on a in a a pan a wee pan with oil in it , drift was always full of oil and you stuck it in the hole . |
| 7 | The most important thing to remember about juggling is that , if you throw the ball well , the catch will look after itself , except for those one in ten people who have great difficulty in holding on to the ball . |
| 8 | Although Crawford had two safety wires attached to him , he succeeded in holding on to the car during all the filming . |
| 9 | Note the tension produced by holding on to the passing note of A♯ in bars 12 and 16 , and the ‘ heavy ’ sound of the minor 3rd ( G natural ) against the E7 chord in bar 18 , anticipating the ♭7th of the A7 to follow . |
| 10 | you can give further encouragement by holding on to the leash in the early stages of teaching this command . |
| 11 | They tried to intimidate me by holding on to the furniture . |
| 12 | If the current yield on the CTD bond exceeds the money market interest rate , the bond will be delivered on the last business day of the month , because the short earns more by holding on to the bond than by delivering it and investing the proceeds in the money market ; otherwise the bond will be delivered on the first business day of the month . |