Example sentences of "have hold out for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I married Melanie , if I 'm honest , because she was the only one who 'd held out for a wedding-ring . ’ |
| 2 | If I 'd been a union member I might have held out for a better offer or some redundancy money , but I was n't , so that was that . |
| 3 | We could have held out for another three years and got over all the changes and benefited financially , but I do n't believe finance is the be-all and end-all of everything . |
| 4 | Although the result was generally welcomed as a great triumph for the men , some ETS members and some political groups thought they should have held out for even more concessions . |
| 5 | Miss Owada is thought to have held out for one concession : relatively open public relations . |
| 6 | Hatch considered him carefully , not bothering to look at the ID card that Cowley had held out for inspection . |
| 7 | If the man had held out for five seconds he would have been dead . |