Example sentences of "hold this [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Hold this position for a few seconds then let your shoulders and head go back slowly to the floor .
2 Hold this position for a count of 5 .
3 Hold this position for a slow count of 4 and lower .
4 Hold this position for a second or two .
5 Then if we hold this rope in the other hand and effectively that 's our accelerator .
6 Hold this end of the yarn lightly to stop it jumping off the needles and knit a row .
7 Lightly tense a given group of muscles ( as listed below ) and hold this tension for a slow count of five while holding your breath .
8 Now , if you hold this action through the killing area , which is probably no more than two yards long , the baited hook is raised fractionally off the bottom of the river and is , presumably , preceding the slightly held-back tackle downstream .
9 But now the kind old man had moved abroad , still believing Oliver was a lying thief , and he might hold this belief until the day he died .
10 If the lines are balanced you should be able to hold this position for a few seconds without the sail changing its position .
11 He was to hold this position for the next thirty-one years and must therefore be regarded as a founding father of the organization which later became known as MI5 .
12 Morse had immediately picked up a copy of The Times , and proceeded to hold this newspaper like a crusader flaunting his emblazoned shield as he 'd stood beside Hodges at the check-out .
13 For your future reference , the committee has decided to hold this meeting on the last Monday of April of each year .
14 Following the huge popularity of previous events , the fifth Mobility Roadshow will be held this year at the same venue on 21 to 23 June .
15 Then he began to recite a litany of the individual bones and of the past Commanders who had held this fortress-monastery for the Emperor .
16 The machines ' official debut will be held this week at the International Oracle Conference in San Francisco , followed by a showing at Unix Expo in New York later this month .
17 THE annual meeting of Hampton and District Royal British Legion Club is being held this evening at the New Inn , Hampton , starting 8pm .
18 He is the first Catholic to have held this office in the 103-year history of the county council .
19 Will my hon. Friend also note that , unlike the Liberal party , whose individual members have held this view for a long time , what is most interesting is the view held by senior members of the Liberal Democrat party in Scotland who are now calling for separatism ?
20 Uncover mystery , magic , suspense and comedy in an exciting new exhibition to be held this summer in the Royal Museum of Scotland in Chambers Street .
21 More than 50 senior executives from seven countries attended the Group Management Conference , held this year for the first time at Courtaulds Woodside training centre in Kenilworth .
22 Glenmuir , which has become synonymous with top quality golfwear , is offering exclusive to Golf Monthly readers the first prize of tickets for two to this unique spectacle , held this year from the 25th to the 29th of September .
23 He held this position until the fall of the Protectorate in 1659 , when he took the republican side .
24 While he held this vision in the trembling torchlight , the eyes opened and looked at him , reflecting back the light of his torch .
25 He was appointed to the first Nuffield chair in child health in the University of London in 1946 and held this post at the Hospital for Sick Children , Great Ormond Street .
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