Example sentences of "hold [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ulster folk hold on to holiday cash |
| 2 | There will undoubtedly be more battles like this in the coming years , whether or not the Conservatives hold on to power . |
| 3 | ‘ That 's cruel , ’ said Lee , holding on to Caspar with two hands through the loop he 'd made in the end of the wire . |
| 4 | Each special effect is just barely holding on to credibility , waiting for that cut which often comes only just in time ( and sometimes a fraction late ) . |
| 5 | As for the iron test , my child sat holding on to Mummy while being read to . |
| 6 | Satyāgraha is further described as an unending , relentless , dialectical quest for truth ; it is holding on to truth come what may . |
| 7 | Other Commissariats were accused of holding on to rolling-stock that should be handed back now the war was over . |
| 8 | Parnell was in jail , and the British authorities are desperately holding on to power as support for the Land League accelerates . |
| 9 | The best known use of zeolites has been as dehydrating agents — the so called molecular sieves — which can effectively filter out and hold on to water molecules thereby removing them from other liquids . |
| 10 | The second question was whether an increasingly beleaguered Gerry Adams could hold on to West Belfast . |
| 11 | Mr Eyadéma can not long hold on to power . |
| 12 | When he found himself in front his main concern was not whether he might hold on to win but whether he would follow the right course . |
| 13 | I know nothing of the circumstances of his illness , but he was dying angrily and his procrastinations could be sufficiently explained by a need to hold on to life , to defer events into the future . |
| 14 | Despite the military superiority of the government forces , the rebels continued to hold on to territory in the south . |
| 15 | It still has a minority government determined to hold on to power and interfering with the process of change by its illegal financial ( and other ) support of Inkatha . |
| 16 | Better to hold on to power for a few days or hours longer . |
| 17 | The so- called middle class leaders of the P.N.M. have , up until now , managed to hold on to power , which is extraordinary considering they were ‘ so completely without ideas of any kind ’ . |
| 18 | Robbie , leaning against the cushions of a high-backed wooden settle , fought hard to hold on to reality . |
| 19 | A director would instruct dealers to tell their clients that an announcement was pending " in order to persuade them to buy more or to hold on to stock they wished to sell . |
| 20 | So I would probably hold out to starvation point and possibly inadvertently beyond , because there will be disease in that place very soon . |
| 21 | And whether they 're coming or not , that city is going to hold out to starvation point and beyond , so long as it believes in a rescue . ’ |
| 22 | Then , his expression quite impassive , he dug a hand into a trouser pocket and carefully , as if trying to hold fast to quick-silver , brought up a fistful of small change . |
| 23 | Difficult to hold fast to time . |
| 24 | Separate national autonomies had appeal for those with some stake in society , the lower-middle classes , craft and some skilled workers ; the right wing gravitated towards peaceful reform and nationalism , while the left endeavoured to hold hard to revolution and a working-class unity that would cut horizontally across the empire . |
| 25 | It was clear then that Noriega only held on to power by two threads — popular apathy and the loyalty of the Panama Defence Force . |
| 26 | Indeed , it is interesting to speculate what sort of state the region and the rest of the country would have been in now had James Callaghan 's moribund administration held on to power in 1979 . |
| 27 | What happened in the 1980S was that , with the partial exceptions of Britain and Japan , nearly all governments held on to monopoly state control of the telephone network and also largely stuck to their traditional club of equipment suppliers ; consequently AT&T had little foreign success in its chosen strengths of network provision and major equipment items . |
| 28 | Their tangle gave Dare Say the advantage he needed and , despite jumping a path only 100 yards before the line , the nine-year-old held on to win by half a length . |
| 29 | Brackley , leading 6-5 after seven ends , collected scores on the next six to build a cushion of eight shots and held on to finish 17-9 ahead . |
| 30 | Johnson at first declared ‘ I 'll trust theology to nobody but myself , ’ then gave way a little to Bishop Percy , but held on to logic , metaphysics and scholastic divinity . |