Example sentences of "hold off [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their single-minded preoccupation , you see , is to hang on to their present decade and hold off the Rubicon-crossing birthday beyond which grandmotherhood and whiskered chins threaten to throttle the last vestiges of good-time glamour . |
| 2 | Rainey 's Italian team-mate Luca Cadalora won today 's event , holding off a late charge by Doohan while Schwantz settled for third after throttling back because of problems with his front tyre . |
| 3 | Tico on the inside , hit Miss Woolco at the initial corner but came off best and shot clear , holding off a late challenge from Newry Blue by three quarters of a length in 31.03 seconds with third . |
| 4 | Her toughest assignment turned out to be the anchor-leg of the intermediate girls relay , when she had to put in a spurt to hold off a determined challenge from Middlesbrough . |
| 5 | The 30-year-old Mandale Harrier was making his first appearance over the country for a year , but he broke clear on the second of the three laps of a gruelling nine kilometre course and held off a late challenge by Newton Aycliffe 's Kevin Vose to win by an emphatic 13 seconds . |
| 6 | He held off a late charge from Rhuddlan 's Chris Davies who had a hole in one at the 179 yard 13th in his final round to take runners-up . |
| 7 | Parrella held off a spirited fightback from 23-year-old McMahon to win 21–19 . |
| 8 | Richard escaped the siege of Bytham and for a period of a week or two in February 1221 in the forest of Cliff , Northamptonshire , he held off a royal army . |