Example sentences of "hold a [noun] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He holds a fist to the sky and a hawk swoops down . |
| 2 | The West Midlands Area Tories , to which organisation Arden belonged , were holding a dance to the music of the Majorettes , but David did not fancy being enveloped in clouds of blue tulle . |
| 3 | A T-SHIRT may hold a clue to the ‘ cab driver ’ rapist who kept a mum prisoner for 16 hours . |
| 4 | Athelstan made him sit on the floor with his back to the wall and , crouching down beside him , told him quietly what he had learnt : how the wood carving being made for the coronation pageant might hold a clue to the killer 's identity . |
| 5 | The Labour party can not hold a candle to the Government 's record in terms of helping elderly people with the costs of heating . |
| 6 | They do not hold a light to the more flamboyant and colourful dendrodorids but are nevertheless beautiful in a grotesque sort of way . |
| 7 | For Americans she had scant respect and considered them to be nouveau riche upstarts , not good enough to hold a candle to the real thing . |
| 8 | What he thought he needed was someone with the public fame to take over the leadership and to hold a candle to the great names of Lloyd George , Austen Chamberlain , Churchill , Birkenhead and Balfour . |
| 9 | It held a pillow to the face of every other kind of music . ’ |
| 10 | The candlelight reflected on his gold wristwatch as he held a lighter to the cigarette of one of the women . |