Example sentences of "hold [adj] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The servility of the old-style caddie may have gone forever , but Sir Henry 's view on what made a good caddie in 1934 , and three years later when he won at Carnoustie , is interesting because it still holds true today in the day and age of the yardage chart : ‘ My caddie Butler was content to jog along all day without speaking unless he was spoken to .
2 As soon as the band is long enough I hold that instead of the cord .
3 Millstream were the first to provide retirement courses specially for senior executives and now hold these regularly in the exclusive setting of the Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes .
4 Indeed many of the disagreements of the following years seem to be associated with cities which had once been held by Charibert , and this was to hold true even after the murder of Sigibert , since lands which he had acquired in 567 became bones of contention between his son , Childebert II , and Guntram .
5 The control over local affairs that the new system entrusted to the agent of the central government was held responsible both for the electoral mechanics which distorted parliamentary liberalism and for the decay of local citizenship .
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