Example sentences of "hold out for the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This is the kind of question which has no answer , since no difference between commitment and rhetoric will be discernable until refugees are faced with a real choice between some kind of a settlement falling short of the ideal and holding out for the ideal itself .
2 But I doubt he 'll hold out for the money .
3 When Henry V died in Normandy in 1422 mos teutonicus was employed , as it was thought that conventional embalming would not hold out for the journey back to England .
4 He was ready now , and had his hand held out for the instrument , lightly brushing her fingers accidentally as she passed it to him .
5 For the first time since Tamar had met her , the putty-coloured cheeks were flushed and the hands which she held out for the child were shaking .
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