Example sentences of "hold [pers pn] [prep] the " 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 | He holds me like the devil himself . |
| 3 | I want to get summat else to play with and I try and get up , but Peter holds me by the arm . |
| 4 | The matters arising holds you off the reports . |
| 5 | He holds you by the voice of his demands , |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Who holds it for the Empress ? ’ |
| 10 | He hands me the silver tube , lights a match and holds it under the foil while I suck in and follow the smoke . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Hold them at the same height above the ground and let go of them both at the same moment . |
| 13 | Tea parties are wonderful fun — especially if you hold them in the garden on a hot day . |
| 14 | You hold them in the middle like that so you , it 's strong . |
| 15 | I hold you in the greatest esteem for the peerless courage you displayed in all you undertook . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I borrow the gun and hold it to the big guy 's head . |
| 19 | While running , Brownies must not drop the egg or hold it on the spoon with their fingers . |
| 20 | hold it with the tweezers while I screwed it back in . |
| 21 | Frozen food storage cabinets are designed to accept pre-frozen food and hold it at the proper storage temperature — 18°C to -22°C . |
| 22 | Hold it in the air . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | To save draining the cistern , make a bung from polyethylene sheeting and cloth and hold it against the outlet . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | gave it to Tim and Tim holded it in the right he put it on the floor and Ian pricked him . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But still the horses would n't budge : they were fixed as if something was holding them to the road . |
| 30 | 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 … |