Example sentences of "hold [pers pn] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a while he opens his case , takes out a glass vial and holds it up to the light . |
| 2 | if you hold them up to the light then you see them |
| 3 | Drill nail holes in the batten , hold it up to the wall , and drill through one batten hole into the tiling . |
| 4 | Cardiff watched him scan the wall , and then hold it up to the ceiling . |
| 5 | in the bottom of the cup , it just when you hold the cup up to the light , the picture comes through , you know it 's , the shape and the colours come through when you hold it up to the light |
| 6 | hold it up to the light |
| 7 | He was wearing an apron which made him look like a housewife , and tinkering with glass eyes , taking them out of a box and holding them up to the empty sockets of the dead bird , trying to find a matching pair that fitted . |
| 8 | You were holding it up to the window . ’ |
| 9 | She took the pendant from her pocket and crouched down , holding it out to the boy . |
| 10 | He was polishing glasses and he held them up to the light to check them and thereby seemed to be ignoring Maidstone completely . |
| 11 | I pretended to find a smudge on the glasses , rinsed them , dried them and held them up to the light . |
| 12 | SCRIBBLED swear words on pillows and held them up to the cabin crew members demonstrating emergency procedures . |
| 13 | They thought it was normal for Lucy ( they had never called her Mummy ) to fly from room to room looking for her watch , keys , diary , gloves , scarf , and blow a kiss to them from the garden path as the taxi-driver carried her cello out to the car , while Nissy held them up to the window to wave . |
| 14 | They held her up to the window , and she was crying and banging on the glass as we drove away . ’ |
| 15 | He drew out a sturdy transparent plastic inner bag and held it up to the light to show me the contents . |
| 16 | Miss Harker looked at it with distaste as if it were a species of repellent insect wriggling on a pin , then took it carefully between her finger and thumb and held it up to the light of the candle . |
| 17 | Once the glass was full he held it up to the lantern that hung from the awning 's strut and toasted whichever patient had paid for that afternoon 's bonefishing . |
| 18 | Kirov held it up to the light , studying it . |
| 19 | Wondering who had wrote it , Katherine turned the letter over in her hands , and then held it up to the light , looking for a watermark — anything which would indicate its origin . |
| 20 | When she held it up to the light she saw that a small circle of skin was inflamed . |
| 21 | The photographer pulled his roll of film from the camera and held it up to the light . |
| 22 | He held it up to the light to give a clearer view . |
| 23 | The white-robed man took the torch from the girl and held it up to the people . |
| 24 | He picked up one of the envelopes and held it up to the light : the watermark showed the heraldic hybrid with which he was becoming familiar , with the wings of an eagle and the body of a lion . |
| 25 | Picking up the long gun , Doyle ran his finger along the barrel and then held it out to the Hare-woman . |