Example sentences of "hold [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Hold it for a few seconds , maybe five , then release it . |
| 32 | The Scots word ‘ gillie ’ , referring to a stable-boy whose job it is to settle a pony and hold it for a child to ride , is derived from the fey and solitary ghillie dhu . |
| 33 | Think yourself into it and hold it for a while . |
| 34 | While running , Brownies must not drop the egg or hold it on the spoon with their fingers . |
| 35 | hold it with the tweezers while I screwed it back in . |
| 36 | Frozen food storage cabinets are designed to accept pre-frozen food and hold it at the proper storage temperature — 18°C to -22°C . |
| 37 | I know , to shun , you hold it as a Rule , |
| 38 | I knew that I must live , must embody , this way-of-seeing — not merely hold it as an interesting idea . |
| 39 | Brush hair back and hold it into a ponytail , twist the hair as tight as possible , then hold the whole section upwards , tuck the end under and secure firmly with lots of grips . |
| 40 | Hold it in the air . |
| 41 | To meet these demands , Daintyfit make use of the most recent developments in fabric technology such as ‘ coolmax ’ , which is used in its sports bras to draw moisture from the skin and hold it within the fabric . |
| 42 | To save draining the cistern , make a bung from polyethylene sheeting and cloth and hold it against the outlet . |
| 43 | As soon as you can see that the embryo is unharmed , do n't touch it ( keep it virgin clean or you may infect it ) , but hold it by the handle and ease the shield shape into the T-shaped cut . |
| 44 | A self-confessed killer who could , even on the brink of her own destruction , still hold us with a threat . |
| 45 | gave it to Tim and Tim holded it in the right he put it on the floor and Ian pricked him . |
| 46 | With a smooth swoop , he caught hold of both her hands and drew her arms up above her head , holding them on the pillows behind her , sliding his free hand beneath her hips , lifting her with one strong , determined movement to meet the invading male power of his body . |
| 47 | Aye you know , holding them on the plank and th passing them to the But the the men that were stowing them , they were regular men on the They knew how to do it see . |
| 48 | Sandwiched between them are Gloucester who lost their 100 per cent record at Saracens , the London club holding them to a 12–12 draw . |
| 49 | But still the horses would n't budge : they were fixed as if something was holding them to the road . |
| 50 | He shook our hands , holding them for a moment and laughing softly . |
| 51 | ‘ You know the heat is off , Ruth , ’ he told her , his eyes catching hers and holding them for a few seconds . |
| 52 | As Pound confessed in another letter in 1933 : ‘ Most Cantos have in them ‘ binding matter ’ , i.e. lines holding them into the whole poem and these passages do n't much help the reader of an isolated fragment … |
| 53 | Assessments of the permissible level of incidental catch should be based on the desirability of returning dolphin stocks to original levels , not holding them at a depleted level through a continuation of a high level of incidental kill . |
| 54 | If you 've got a pot or tray of seedlings , prick them out the moment you can handle them — holding them by a seed leaf , never a crushable stem . |
| 55 | And you got the odd look but it was n't too severe because at least though they had no clothes on at least you were holding them by the waist . |
| 56 | The physical world , seemingly solid to our senses , when reduced to its ultimate is mostly ‘ emptiness ’ or etheric spaces with almost innumerable particles of negative or positive electricity mutually acting or interacting , producing all the existing material phenomena and holding them in a more or less organised state . |
| 57 | There were thus good reasons for holding dollars but not for holding them in the USA . |
| 58 | I 'm in London I 'm in the nick I 'm in fucking Paddington Green for Christ 's sake , the high-security station they use for the Provos and they think I 'm so dangerous so much a security risk they 've got me here and even holding me under the Prevention of Terrorism Act Jesus God because some of them still are n't convinced they are n't dealing with some unholy alliance of the IRA , Welsh Nationalists and uppity jocks . |
| 59 | Jamie and the girl were inches away from me , holding me by an arm each , being bumped into frequently , but my drunkenness had now got to such a state — as the last two quickly consumed pints and an accompanying whisky caught up with my racing bloodstream — that I might as well have been on another planet for all the hope I had of making them understand what I wanted . |
| 60 | He was running on three legs and holding me in the fourth . |