Example sentences of "hold [pron] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Poultry Association of Northern Ireland only holds its conference every other year . |
| 2 | fail to hold our breath the length of the tunnel |
| 3 | He held her gaze a moment , one hostile eyebrow lifting . |
| 4 | He held her gaze a moment , still with a ghost of a smile lingering . |
| 5 | Jacob held her hand a little lingeringly before he gravely presented her to Katherine and Leo as Dr Camille Briand . |
| 6 | He held her hand a little longer than he should have done , and had stammered at her , ‘ I — I have a cousin in Florida , Miss McAllister ; I wonder if you have run across her ? ’ |
| 7 | Sir Thomas smiled patronisingly and held her arm the more tightly . |
| 8 | The same kind of inertia had held him prisoner a few seconds before , but common sense made him brush his nonsensical thoughts aside . |
| 9 | Hope looked keenly at the man , held his gaze a moment — a glance which could have ruled a line straight from eye to eye — and then snapped to attention . |