Example sentences of "hold [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My voice holds them at bay . |
| 2 | The general technique used for stationery decoration is to cover the flowers with a clear adhesive film , which not only protects them from damp or dirt , but also holds them in position . |
| 3 | The four row knit/knit section seals the ridges and holds them in place . |
| 4 | It is to require banks to hold capital specifically against market risk — broadly , the chance that the price of a share or a bond or a currency , for example , will fall , and expose the bank that holds it to loss . |
| 5 | What he can do is to say that the legal owner can not in conscience , in equity , make use of his Common Law right for his own benefit ; he must use it for the benefit of the man for whom he holds it in trust . |
| 6 | Two or more warp strands are tied together to form a knot which presses against the final weft strand and holds it in place . |
| 7 | The water holds it in place within the pool while it is secured at the top by rocks , paving slabs or turves . |
| 8 | Mechanical filtration is anything , like filter wood , used to strain and collect particles and hold them for removal . |
| 9 | The prime business of the eight members of the London Discount Market Association is to buy bills at a discount and hold them until redemption date , thereby taking a profit . |
| 10 | The villagers hold them in awe and think of them as men of the world . |
| 11 | Blood , for instance , decides in the case of certain army posts , whose incumbents hold them by virtue of family connections , nepotism or favouritism ; but gold gets its due through the circumstance that all army commissions can be bought and sold for coin of the realm ’ ( Marx 1953 ) . |
| 12 | So we 'll sound out parliament first , and hold you in reserve , my lord , for a last resort . ’ |
| 13 | [ The CARDINAL and the FOX hold her in conversation against her will . |
| 14 | Any charge can then be in favour of the trustees who hold it on trust for the debentureholders . |
| 15 | With the record-machine on stop , locate the shot to be assembled on the source machine ; hold it on play-pause at the point where its assembly onto the copy tape is to begin , ie the edit-in point . |
| 16 | Hold it in flower , do n't let it escape . |
| 17 | If land is given to an infant by will or conveyed to him on an intestacy the legal estate vests in the representatives of the deceased who hold it in trust for the infant . |
| 18 | One of the best exercises you can use to develop this important body turn movement is to place a club behind your neck and hold it in position with your hands . |
| 19 | I 'm looking for a nut erm , for this , so you know hold it in position , found one , while I 'll looking I found this and it 's just the job |
| 20 | Apply a sterile eyepad and hold it in place with micropore tape . |
| 21 | Hold it in place with a rubber band . |
| 22 | Hold it in place with a longer spirit level ( if you have one ) to check it for horizontal . |
| 23 | Pin turning , then hold it in place with a large herringbone stitch or serging , ( page 33 ) stopping approximately 25cm ( 10in ) from the bottom edge in order to complete mitred corners . |
| 24 | The only defence against this in total darkness was to remove your jacket and hold it in front of you with both hands as a shield . |
| 25 | Place mortar on the hawk and hold it in line and just below the joint to be filled |
| 26 | If they were in the possession of a warehouseman ( or other agent ) holding them on behalf of the seller , that is sufficient . |
| 27 | Holding them of course means a return is being earned that otherwise would be forgone . |
| 28 | Surely this is the moment when the strong west should be able to offer a hand of assistance to those countries , rather than holding them at arm 's length while it completes its own internal workings . |
| 29 | Running alongside these complaints , however , and often holding them in check , there was a counter-movement in the interwar years which involved a quite different moral emphasis . |
| 30 | They toppled over the chain holding them in place , spilling themselves and their contents into the road . |