Example sentences of "hold [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Caps Lock is on and you hold down the shift key , lower case letters are typed |
| 2 | Strings secured to the timber edgings hold down the polythene cover . |
| 3 | After selecting number 2 into the current colour box , go to FUNCTION in the top menu bar and hold down the mouse button . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Just hold down the fire button to determine strength , and position the joystick as for a standard kick . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Then , hold down the Shift key and move the cursor to the end of the block you want selected . |
| 9 | If you selected a word hold down the Shift key and click on the last word of the selection — similarly for paragraphs . |
| 10 | Hold down the shift and press F one . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | England hold off the Irish |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Hold off the sky , trample the strength |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Hold up the glass to such viewers , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , and let them see themselves in it . |
| 17 | Napoleon Bonaparte , Metternich , Napoleon III and Vittorio Emanuele II all visited the house , and each must have been impressed by the colossal Ionic columns that hold up the façade and hem in the doorway . |
| 18 | The ancient fords which hold up the water are dredged out , along with their water crowfoot . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ They add unfair pressure and hold up the game , with players being distracted waiting to see an incident shown again before they bowl the next ball . ’ |
| 20 | It looked like somewhere waiting for a film to happen , Jasper thought , like a Western on television where two gunmen will come out of the badlands and hold up the mailtrain on the Santa Fe railroad . |
| 21 | I cry , and I reach out and , lo and behold , I touch wood and I know that it 's one of the posts which hold up the catwalk . |
| 22 | ‘ go around and hold up the northern half of this wood . |
| 23 | You know the open topped buses where they go round they hold up the traffic . |
| 24 | I lost Granpa quite a bit of our weekly profit that way , until he taught me to say , ‘ Twopence change , Mrs Smith , ’ then hold up the coins for all to see before handing them over . |
| 25 | Thus children have to suppress their grief , and hold back the tears and pain . |
| 26 | Big men do n't cry so the saying goes , so I hold back the tears — but they 're there none the less . |
| 27 | The point of contact between British and French colonies was still on the seacoast , and here the British regular forces and the colonial militia co-operated effectively and captured the fortress of Louisbourg , which the French had fortified at immense cost to command the entrance to the St. Lawrence and hold back the British in Nova Scotia . |
| 28 | If I hold back the tears , the feeling becomes locked or blocked in my body . |
| 29 | It was still convenient to hold that the Labour Party relied on a " left " Party " which will stand between the Communist Party and the Labour Party and hold back the British workers from following the revolutionary policy of the Communist International " . |
| 30 | So too the yawning depths of the wave , even while threatening annihilation , hold out the promise of rebirth . |