Example sentences of "hold [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is an unconditional appropriation when the goods are identified and the third person acknowledges that he now holds them for the buyer , Wardars ( Import & exports ) v. W. Norwood ( 1968 C.A. ) . |
| 2 | The shears are a Y that wants to be an X — he holds them like a water diviner , |
| 3 | He holds me like the devil himself . |
| 4 | I want to get summat else to play with and I try and get up , but Peter holds me by the arm . |
| 5 | he holds himself on the sofa |
| 6 | Sticky Block — Holds you for a few seconds . |
| 7 | The matters arising holds you off the reports . |
| 8 | He holds you by the voice of his demands , |
| 9 | The carer then holds him in the same way as if he was sitting on the side of the bed , with his head resting on her shoulder , and lifts him up and round onto the second chair . |
| 10 | If the child says , ‘ I dislike Auntie Kate ’ but seeks her company , holds her by the hand when they go out for a walk , and so on , we would conclude that he has not understood the word dislike . |
| 11 | Even when he waves a noose , he holds it with a velvet glove . |
| 12 | A smith uses a hammer very differently to most tradesmen , never holds it at the bottom of the shaft , for the resulting whip means that power is lost so they always clench the tool near the head . |
| 13 | Sometimes he walking round with his marking book and he holds it at an angle you know so you can see all the answers . |
| 14 | ‘ Who holds it for the Empress ? ’ |
| 15 | He holds it through a riveting performance of the Toccata , a sumptuously lyrical adagio ( although perhaps here it has more the air of an andante amabile ) and a gloriously ebullient Fugue . |
| 16 | He hands me the silver tube , lights a match and holds it under the foil while I suck in and follow the smoke . |
| 17 | The water soaks into the ground and becomes sucked in to a sandstone strata , which holds it like a sponge under the city . |
| 18 | You are incorporating humus on which the beneficial bacteria thrive and which both drains the soil of surplus moisture , yet holds it in the right degree . |
| 19 | Only one of them looks directly out of the picture , and he holds us with a gloomy , ironical eye — an unflattered eye , as well , we ca n't help noticing . |
| 20 | Just in case they hold me to a four week |
| 21 | Hold them at the same height above the ground and let go of them both at the same moment . |
| 22 | The findings of the male researchers , she claims , are dogged by what she calls the problem of women ‘ whose sexuality remains more diffuse , whose perception of self is so much more tenaciously embedded in relationships with others and whose moral dilemmas hold them in a mode of judgment that is insistently contextual ’ . |
| 23 | Tea parties are wonderful fun — especially if you hold them in the garden on a hot day . |
| 24 | You hold them in the middle like that so you , it 's strong . |
| 25 | Many of us hold ourselves in the most distorted positions and when tensions are released the changes can be quite dramatic . |
| 26 | I hold you in the greatest esteem for the peerless courage you displayed in all you undertook . |
| 27 | She would have liked to take the girl in her arms and hold her for a long time . |
| 28 | Now she knew how to tease and tantalise her , hold her on the brim of honeydew euphoria then flood her wordless yearning with a Niagara of delirium . |
| 29 | Hold it to the light , with the eye pointing up and down , and you should observe that the thickness of the shaft is scalloped away by 50% just above the eye on the rear face . |
| 30 | I borrow the gun and hold it to the big guy 's head . |