Example sentences of "one [noun sg] hold the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One bit holds the sign , 6 bits hold the exponent in excess-32 representation , and 9 bits hold the fraction in sign-and.magnitude representation . |
| 2 | One person holds the lead and stands behind the dog who is sitting . |
| 3 | He had clawed the cloth from the length of the table and a slow-motion avalanche of plates , food , cutlery , decanters of wine in silver coasters , candles and engraved Bohemian glass , creatures carved in silver , a bowl of roses and two Paul de Lamerie dishes all shunted beneath sixteen pairs of bewildered eyes , and no one thought to hold the cloth , prevent the steady crash of destruction at Francis Sutherland 's end of the table . |
| 4 | Buttons and zips are difficult to manipulate without one hand holding the garment steady . |
| 5 | Or again , considering ( 4 ) , there is no fixed length for turns in conversation , and sometimes one participant holds the floor for some time ; yet although we might call a turn of four minutes part of a conversation , we would consider conversation to have ceased if someone talked for an hour and a half . |
| 6 | Dr Stevenson , who at one time held the chair of neurology and psychiatry at the University of Virginia Medical School , worked with children in India and other eastern countries ; his findings are published in his book , Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation . |