Example sentences of "[vb past] hold [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I realised this was unusual for an owl , because in the wild they tend to swallow their prey whole , so I simply stopped holding on to the chick and soon she was gobbling it up in one . |
| 2 | She tried to hold on to the heady rapture that was sweeping her along like a river in flood . |
| 3 | When that happened , the others , those whose canoes sank , tried to hold on to the canoes that were still afloat . |
| 4 | I was going on with it , all the bumps were okay but when I was actually inside the building again I hung on to GrandPat to get to the steps but my hand slipped so I was going round with the current so I tried to hold on to the orange thing that they had put there but I slipped off that and I kept on going round and the lifeguard gave erm me and somebody else a hoop and we both grabbed onto it |
| 5 | Here 's an imag-inary line-up Leeds might be fielding now if they 'd held on to the stars they rejected . |
| 6 | The police explained why they 'd held on to the vehicles which were being kept near Malvern , not at Worcester . |
| 7 | With a mother who was active in B'nai B'rith , Anne Barth was offered a place on one of the early Kindertransporte , but her parents decided to hold back in the faint hope that conditions would improve . |
| 8 | Becky kept holding on to the picture . |
| 9 | Ann said hold on to the pattern , she said I do n't know what to do , erm knit them |
| 10 | ‘ Saving our skins , ’ she said holding fast to the plans that begged to be told , because there still was n't enough time . |
| 11 | Chris had to hold on to the grab handle of the jeep or she would have been flung out . |
| 12 | She just had to hold on to the thought that , although he believed he knew who , he did n't know where . |
| 13 | Alistair Clarke of Christie 's furniture department expressed satisfaction that the market had held up in the light of the considerable quantity of important French furniture which has already been offered this season . |
| 14 | At my first event in Fort Worth , I had held on to the few people I knew as though for dear life , terrified at the thought of being stranded in this great wilderness . |
| 15 | Tanzania 's President Ali Hassan Mwinyi was elected on Aug. 16 as chair of the ruling Chama cha Mapinduzi ( CCM ) party , with 1,846 out of 1,851 votes cast , in succession to the " elder statesman " leader Julius Nyerere , who had held on to the party chairmanship for five years since stepping down as state President in 1985 . |
| 16 | It was true , she said — Sir Gregory Roscarrock was indeed her grandfather , and that was why her father had held fast to the Old Faith . |
| 17 | The commandos , who belong to a 55-strong group of US military advisers in El Salvador , had held out on the sixth floor of the annexe during the siege .. |
| 18 | But he conceded that Tokyo had held back in the aftermarket of British Gas . |
| 19 | But he conceded that Tokyo had held back in the aftermarket of British Gas . |
| 20 | Just after Manning had come the agnostic Tyndall , talking about the identity of radiant heat and light ; and just before Stanley , the militant anti-christian W. K. Clifford had held forth on the education of the people , and especially on the importance of technical drawing . |
| 21 | I was told I could see him for an hour but they got held up on the way and I was rushed through the visit . |
| 22 | ‘ No , I got held Up at the office . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I got held up at the office . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I got held up at the last minute . ’ |
| 25 | After subsidizing the Postal Department for 43 years , her last 29 cent instalment that carried news that she was confirming the trip got held up in the mail office because , and I 'm not joking , George Bush had flown all the way from Disneyland to have his picture taken in front of the Grand Canyon . |