Example sentences of "hold [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just hold on a bit , wo n't you ? |
| 2 | All you have to do is press and hold down a button . |
| 3 | ‘ Look here , you hold down a difficult and sensitive job . |
| 4 | But many adult learners also hold down a full-time job , and in the middle of a hard week 's work they are likely to be tired . |
| 5 | But if you are schizophrenic , you can not think straight , concentrate , hold down a job . |
| 6 | If Caps Lock is on and you hold down the shift key , lower case letters are typed |
| 7 | Strings secured to the timber edgings hold down the polythene cover . |
| 8 | After selecting number 2 into the current colour box , go to FUNCTION in the top menu bar and hold down the mouse button . |
| 9 | TO find a special game in the Mega Drive version of Klax , merely hold down the Left and Up diagonal plus A , B , C and Start simultaneously at the title screen . |
| 10 | Just hold down the fire button to determine strength , and position the joystick as for a standard kick . |
| 11 | The direction and power of the smash is affected by when you hit the ball , what direction the ball 's already travelling , and how long you hold down the fire button ! |
| 12 | So everybody have document and hit shift F ten and they 're on page nine now if we go , hold down the alt key and type B and you 'll just see er a shimmer go down the screen an then you do n't actually see anything , but if you alt U , everything appears underlined alt K converts everything into small capitals alt S , strikes through everything and alt I italicizes all the words . |
| 13 | Then , hold down the Shift key and move the cursor to the end of the block you want selected . |
| 14 | If you selected a word hold down the Shift key and click on the last word of the selection — similarly for paragraphs . |
| 15 | Hold down the shift and press F one . |
| 16 | All you have to do is move the cross hair in the direction in which you want to shoot , hold down the shoot button to select the power of the stroke and then you tee off . |
| 17 | On reaching adulthood , people continue to strive to be better than others ; to earn more money , buy a larger home , hold down an interesting and fulfilling job and lead a rewarding life . |
| 18 | The records of the local authority , and in particular a whole range of core documents , are becoming ever more important as the agents by which we hold together an increasingly diverse and fragmented organisation and culture . |
| 19 | All this leads to swelling and shrinkage of keratin cells , and the bonds that hold together the nail weaken , causing brittleness . |
| 20 | There is still tremendous distrust and infighting between and even among clans , with each claiming hold over a particular region of the country . |
| 21 | Provide containers of various shapes which hold approximately the same amount . |
| 22 | England hold off the Irish |
| 23 | Their single-minded preoccupation , you see , is to hang on to their present decade and hold off the Rubicon-crossing birthday beyond which grandmotherhood and whiskered chins threaten to throttle the last vestiges of good-time glamour . |
| 24 | Hold off the sky , trample the strength |
| 25 | At the time of Cats , for example , there were lots of offers to turn that into a film , but his instinct was to keep it as a musical play and hold off the film offers . |
| 26 | I swear by all I hold dear the Koran , my wife , child and mother I had nothing to do with this . ’ |
| 27 | Now you hold up a minute , Muvver . ’ |
| 28 | Hold up a finger at arm's-length , close one eye , and line your finger up with a picture or some other convenient object some way away . |
| 29 | I thought if you hold up a box of Roses chocolates , grin at it and say , ‘ Mmm … great chocolates ! ’ everybody quite correctly will despise you . |
| 30 | To test the monitor , hold up a plain sheet of paper next to the screen . |