Example sentences of "hold out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly the town could not hold out without the castle , which the Duke contemptuously dismissed as ‘ an old hen-coop which he would speedily bring down about their ears ’ . |
| 2 | So I would probably hold out to starvation point and possibly inadvertently beyond , because there will be disease in that place very soon . |
| 3 | I say this with scorn , because the leader of the Labour party can no longer hold out to his people the prospect that they may change the law through this place . |
| 4 | ‘ She 'd hold out for a while but it would always be made up after he came back with the roses . |
| 5 | I debated whether to be sick or not myself , and decided that I could hold out for another half hour . |
| 6 | The main argument from the Corsican was that they could hold out for ever . |
| 7 | When Henry V died in Normandy in 1422 mos teutonicus was employed , as it was thought that conventional embalming would not hold out for the journey back to England . |
| 8 | Having realised how crucial START 1 and NPT ratification are to the West , many Ukrainians — 90% , according to the latest opinion polls — believe their country should hold out for financial compensation ; the current price tag , described as covering the costs of dismantling the warheads , is $1 billion . |
| 9 | This is the issue which occupies Anne Phillips , Sylvia Walby and Michèle Barrett in particular , with a certain consensus that , after all , we must hold out for a version of modernism ( against post-modernism ) , and what Phillips calls a ‘ middle route ’ which retains its aspiration to universalism . |
| 10 | But I doubt he 'll hold out for the money . |
| 11 | We can hold out for days . |
| 12 | It may be considered that a three year period in 7.6.5 is too long and that two years is an adequate period for reinstatement to take place , but the landlord will probably hold out for the longer period . |
| 13 | ‘ Why did you hold out on him ? ’ |
| 14 | However , National Home Loans said it was ‘ virtually certain' it could hold out against a rise until Christmas . |
| 15 | Among the speakers who had convinced the Bosnian Serbs that they must hold out against the world was a guest of honour , a painter called Milic Od Macve . |
| 16 | If you just try to defend and hold out against them , it wears you down . |
| 17 | If everyone who agreed with us wrote to his or her MP , no government could hold out against us ! |
| 18 | It was four years ago , and that was when it was clear that they could n't hold out against comprehensivization any longer . |
| 19 | This was followed by an interview between the President and Von Papen : and I can not help thinking that , during their conversation together , the former must have assured the latter that , so long as she could hold out against Allied demands , Turkey would abstain from hostile action towards Germany . |
| 20 | She glanced nervously at the windows , wondering how they 'd hold out against fiercer gusts than those already battering the house . |
| 21 | They could hold out until spring . |
| 22 | The Jags looked as though they would hold out until half time but barely two minutes before the break they conceded a free kick just outside the box . |
| 23 | Do you reckon this snow will hold out until Christmas ? |
| 24 | No no no it wo n't hold out until Christmas . |