Example sentences of "hold [noun sg] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In holding the bill it will increase in value day by day and thus earn a return — return whose value will always be better than that for simply holding liquidity solely in the form of ‘ cash ’ . |
| 2 | They roused the occupants of some houses by knocking on the door and holding Bartle up to the windows to be seen by those inside . |
| 3 | Then turn right again to make good the inbound holding track back to the holding point . |
| 4 | A Director so appointed shall hold office only until the next following annual general meeting . |
| 5 | A Director so appointed shall hold office only until the next following annual general meeting . |
| 6 | She held Dot up to the mirror and Dot saw the greyish rivulets where tears had run down her cheeks and been smudged to grey by her hands . |
| 7 | The heir to the throne , a shy , sensitive boy , was often held upside down over the lavatory by schoolmates who delighted in pulling the chain . |
| 8 | The unity of India was imperilled , he said , by a government which was ‘ at the mercy of the rightists and the charity of the leftists ’ and which held power only by the magnanimity of the Congress leader , Mr Rajiv Gandhi , who did not try to form a government . |