Example sentences of "hold her [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's no good ‘ effing and blinding ’ , ’ he remonstrated mildly , holding her firmly by the shoulders and inspecting her with a brilliantly dispassionate gaze . |
| 2 | Guido gave her another shake , holding her there by the scruff of her pyjama jacket . |
| 3 | Her earliest memory was of him holding her tightly by the hand , when she was just a toddler , in case she strayed too near the rushing river . |
| 4 | I was still holding her back from the window , and wondering what to do next , when Mr Edgar entered . |
| 5 | His hands which had clasped her so tightly eased their pressure , holding her now with the gentle touch of a friend . |
| 6 | Not nine months out of the convent , and she was behaving like a trollop , encouraging him to hold her tightly round the waist , tossing back her head to laugh , looking into his face with a silly , fatuous smile . |
| 7 | Sometimes I would hold her lightly by the finger-tips and try to steer the conversation to matters of the heart , but she would blush and her beautiful eyes look down . |
| 8 | Some days Ariel carried the hooped Sycorax on her back ( she would not ride on anyone else ) down to the shore and into the water , and held her up under the arms so that she could let her contorted frame float free ; small currents spun in the water as if to ease her , and the sky 's blue height seemed to catch them up into its soft vastness and give them fins and wings to fly and swoop , so that they both felt airier and brighter than they had since their freedom had come to an end , and the memory of their former peace returned for a space . |
| 9 | Anna rose and walked away , very slowly and stiffly — Constanza tried to follow her but a waiter held her up with the bill . |
| 10 | They held her up to the window , and she was crying and banging on the glass as we drove away . ’ |
| 11 | As though humouring her , he put out his arms and held her loosely round the waist , smiling at her in a sympathetic way , as one does to an invalid . |
| 12 | Each touch of each finger seemed to burn through her sweat-shirt , and her insides gave the most awful lurch as he held her easily above the floor , his eyes fixed steadily on hers . |
| 13 | He pulled her into his arms , giving her no chance to try to evade him as he held her tightly against the solid strength of his body . |
| 14 | He held her tightly against the length of him , and there was no space between their bodies . |
| 15 | He held her hard against the door , his dark face very close . |
| 16 | One large hand held her down over the back of the upright chair , so that the top of her head was pushed into the seat . |
| 17 | You held her down for the other one . |