Example sentences of "hold [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | — days that hold nothing but themselves — |
| 2 | I 'm certain that those of us who heard Mike Save The Children 's overseas director on the Today programme or our field director in Angola on the evening television news yesterday , can have hold nothing but pride , what they had to say of Save The Children 's work in that country , a country described as the heart of darkness a country with the world 's worse infant mortality rate . |
| 3 | I hold nothing against them and I wish them all the best . |
| 4 | Hold thee from this forever ’ |
| 5 | I hold thee by too many bands : |
| 6 | And hold thee in my heart , my love |
| 7 | Just in case they hold me to a four week |
| 8 | Her eyes hold me like magnets . |
| 9 | Hold them at the same height above the ground and let go of them both at the same moment . |
| 10 | do you wan na little bit more table , that 's gon na be alright because you 've erm , if I move them if you put on that , if I hold them on my lap and then they wo n't get , you wo n't want to ask me , do you want another one ? |
| 11 | Mechanical filtration is anything , like filter wood , used to strain and collect particles and hold them for removal . |
| 12 | 1979 , 1982 ) , not only do stags that hold large harems hold them for longer within particular breeding seasons than those which hold smaller harems ( Fig. 23. 1a ) , but individuals that are consistently successful in securing large harems throughout their lives tend to live longer than their less successful competitors ( Fig. 23.1b ) . |
| 13 | We should take them at their word and hold them to it , rather than resign ourselves to the judgment that they have been lying . |
| 14 | to me hold them against their will ? '' ’ |
| 15 | The prime business of the eight members of the London Discount Market Association is to buy bills at a discount and hold them until redemption date , thereby taking a profit . |
| 16 | You hold them like that . |
| 17 | The villagers hold them in awe and think of them as men of the world . |
| 18 | One god raises his hand to the tump-line to slip it off his forehead , whereas others have slipped off their load , and hold them in their laps . |
| 19 | K. R. Then you had to produce your appointments — which was your baton and brass keys [ for the police telephone boxes ] , hold them in your hands , and then you were issued with the Beat Book on parade . |
| 20 | The Lamia also had a peculiar ability to take out her eyes and hold them in her hand . |
| 21 | He is the kind of person you want to beat because you hold them in such high regard . ’ |
| 22 | The findings of the male researchers , she claims , are dogged by what she calls the problem of women ‘ whose sexuality remains more diffuse , whose perception of self is so much more tenaciously embedded in relationships with others and whose moral dilemmas hold them in a mode of judgment that is insistently contextual ’ . |
| 23 | You can load up to 10 applications and hold them in suspended animation in the background while you work on another app in the foreground . |
| 24 | Tea parties are wonderful fun — especially if you hold them in the garden on a hot day . |
| 25 | We use them as rubber and you hold them in your arms , alright ? |
| 26 | And you hold them in your arm just see the wa I mix them up in the feed , I mix the feed up with some of it , and then tip it into the rubber you see . |
| 27 | They hold them in Plymouth do they ? |
| 28 | You hold them in the middle like that so you , it 's strong . |
| 29 | Blood , for instance , decides in the case of certain army posts , whose incumbents hold them by virtue of family connections , nepotism or favouritism ; but gold gets its due through the circumstance that all army commissions can be bought and sold for coin of the realm ’ ( Marx 1953 ) . |
| 30 | Many of us hold ourselves in the most distorted positions and when tensions are released the changes can be quite dramatic . |