Example sentences of "if [pron] hold the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I held the winning ticket this would definitely be my Single Of The Week . |
| 2 | If someone holds the common belief that we only grow through pain and suffering , for example , then they are likely to create traumatic experiences at a fairly steady pace . |
| 3 | It 's gone right across its middle , but it do n't matter too much , cos if you hold the bits together you can still see it OK . |
| 4 | ‘ Is it easier if you hold the book closer to you ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ He would n't drink when he was travelling at all , but now I have found that he 'll drink if you put the bucket on the floor , but he utterly refuses to if you hold the bucket up to him … ’ . |
| 6 | Injections into , say , the muscle of the hindleg are more painful , but if you hold the dog as directed , offering plenty of reassurance , then no long-term behavioural problem should take hold as a result and the experience should be rapidly forgotten . |
| 7 | This is the disc of light you see if you hold the binoculars at arm 's length and look through them . |
| 8 | ‘ If you hold the net firmly , my partner here could draw it closely round the squirrel so that it ca n't struggle . ’ |
| 9 | He says that if you hold the sheep properly , it wo n't struggle . |
| 10 | Look if you hold the handle you can tip it , tip it up . |
| 11 | The Cake Walk was supposed to be a most daring ride although if you held the rail whilst progressing around the U-shaped walk as it tossed like a rough sea , it was n't too bad . |
| 12 | In ordinary flowing speech , the whole sentence happens so quickly that , even if you held the speaker firmly by the throat , it would not be easy to spot vibration of quickly passing consonant sounds . |
| 13 | If you held the kind of philosophy that I do , you would realize that , in friendship , presence and absence , propinquity and distance , do not make quite the difference that they do in mere acquaintanceship . |
| 14 | ‘ In my day , if you held the ball for more than a second you got clattered , really clattered . ’ |
| 15 | If you held the cup and let me get hold of handle I 'd have been alright . |
| 16 | ‘ But how are we ever going to listen to each other if we hold the views that we have about each other , and if we talk the way we talk to each other the way we do in the cases ? ’ |
| 17 | But nowadays not everyone is so ready to accept such divisions as unalterable , and if one holds the not unreasonable belief that the existence of wealth is one cause of poverty , then clearly we are faced with a more difficult choice : either to tolerate the existence of both wealth and poverty , or to aim at abolishing poverty , in which case we have no option but to attack wealth . |
| 18 | Turning to the prices of individual stocks , in many cases the price is above par ( £100 ) because of the fall in interest rates , so investors have to take into account the fact that if they hold the stock to maturity they will incur a capital loss . |
| 19 | Hardly a week passed without Rabbi Schonfeld or his chief lieutenant and propagandist , Harry Goodman , mounting an attack against the RCM for dereliction of duty , implying that if they held the reins the race would be as good as won . |
| 20 | But holders of Treasury 9¾ per cent stock 2002 , if they held the stock until redemption in August 2002 , would only receive back £100 for each £100 nominal amount of stock ; i.e. they would lose capital value of £3.09375 on each £100 nominal amount of stock . |
| 21 | If it held the shares intact it would suffer the same disadvantage that our ordinary investor encountered . |
| 22 | I had fixed my mind on that image of that ruined theatre as if it held the clue to my whole identity . |
| 23 | Now the person possessing the goods after the time limit , even if he holds the goods in bad faith , may call himself the rightful owner , while the original owner promptly loses all rights . |
| 24 | It does not follow from this that the beneficiary himself can not sue , for if he holds the chattels he seems to have joint possession with the trustee . |