Example sentences of "a [noun sg] hold the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's only part of the Lego this Sean and make a look holding the stick . |
| 2 | Apart from fastening the cuttings together , the lead strip acts as a weight to hold the bunch down . |
| 3 | First is that the cost of a megabyte of memory fell below the $1,000 mark during 1983 and you need a megabyte to hold the bitmap of an 11″ by 8.5″ page at 300dpi . |
| 4 | The sequence bits of a micro-instruction hold the address of the next instruction to be executed , and this field is gated into the SAR of the control store at the beginning of the next micro-instruction cycle . |
| 5 | It would be a nice rest and such a joy to hold the child . |
| 6 | When you went to the driller you 'd got ta hold it in your hand or get a sommat , a gadget to hold the thing on , pull put the drill in . |
| 7 | A CD-Rom holds the equivalent of 1,000 floppies so you can put all your training programme on one disc . ’ |
| 8 | I sat for a while holding the baby under my hands . |
| 9 | There are a number of accessories for the sander , including a sanding frame to allow even sanding of large areas , and a frame to hold the tool upside down for stationary use . |
| 10 | An employee of the port authority , dressed in a grey uniform , will indicate a space at the main wharf either stern or bow-to which involves picking up a mooring to hold the bow or stern off the quay . |
| 11 | Have a helper hold the kite nose up , and walk out at least 15m ( 50ft ) of line directly in-line with the wind — downwind , of course ! |
| 12 | But in some areas a minority hold the view that the confidentiality of the client is thus breached and the nature of the interview may be altered by the presence of an observer . |
| 13 | In New Hope Copse she saw at a distance a man holding the hand of a small child , inclining to her the way adults do when walking with little ones , while his free arm swept the air to possess the oaks , the beeches , the ash . |
| 14 | Walden talked about the way in which Britain 's role had been artificially inflated by the cold war : ‘ What could be better calculated to raise the national spirits than a government holding the flag high in the face of the evils of communism , the murderous follies of buffoonish Argentinian generals , and the intrigues of the perfidious French ? ’ |
| 15 | A daughter held the mother 's hand in sympathy . |
| 16 | He lifted a sock from the floor and pushed it into her mouth , then held a silk blouse out by its cuffs and spun it until it became a rope to hold the gag secure . |
| 17 | What fans did n't see was special effects boss Derek Meddings on the floor with his hand up her dress to keep it from ruffling up and his assistant up a ladder holding the tension on a piece of fish wire while the zip was being pulled down . |
| 18 | Secondly , Apple was very a very hungry company at that point in time and desperately needed a prop to hold the company up ( it was undoubtedly the LaserWriter that saved the company 's financial fortunes rather than any of its computers ) . |
| 19 | to the width of the finished blind , plus a cleat to hold the cord . |
| 20 | [ T ] he state is something more than a mere collection of families , or an agglomeration of occupational organisation , or a referee holding the ring between the conflicting interests of the voluntary associations which it permits to exist . |