Example sentences of "[vb past] to hold [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | She tried to hold on to the heady rapture that was sweeping her along like a river in flood . |
2 | When that happened , the others , those whose canoes sank , tried to hold on to the canoes that were still afloat . |
3 | I was going on with it , all the bumps were okay but when I was actually inside the building again I hung on to GrandPat to get to the steps but my hand slipped so I was going round with the current so I tried to hold on to the orange thing that they had put there but I slipped off that and I kept on going round and the lifeguard gave erm me and somebody else a hoop and we both grabbed onto it |
4 | With a mother who was active in B'nai B'rith , Anne Barth was offered a place on one of the early Kindertransporte , but her parents decided to hold back in the faint hope that conditions would improve . |
5 | Chris had to hold on to the grab handle of the jeep or she would have been flung out . |
6 | She just had to hold on to the thought that , although he believed he knew who , he did n't know where . |