Example sentences of "hold on [prep] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tranmere Rovers verses Swindon Town.Now all it needs is for the Swindon players to hold their nerve and hold on to their two goal advantage . |
| 2 | The Italians lost in the league on Sunday but they 're still confident of progressing to the quarter finals of the Cup winners ' cup by holding on to their one goal advantage . |
| 3 | The offensive has slowed , and there are doubts whether the guerrillas can hold on to their recent gains for long . |
| 4 | After their loss of Normandy in 1204 the king-dukes were all the more concerned to hold on to their southern lands . |
| 5 | Dolphins that feed mainly on squid usually have fewer teeth and have developed other adaptations to hold on to their slippery-bodied meals . |
| 6 | It is the particular genius of British politics that the major parties have always managed to hold on to their respective extremists and so to draw their teeth . |