Example sentences of "[vb past] hold on [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 | Becky kept holding on to the picture . |
| 8 | Ann said hold on to the pattern , she said I do n't know what to do , erm knit them |
| 9 | Chris had to hold on to the grab handle of the jeep or she would have been flung out . |
| 10 | She just had to hold on to the thought that , although he believed he knew who , he did n't know where . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |