Example sentences of "hold [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seven years after losing her sight Philippa now holds down a full-time job . |
| 2 | As well as looking after Thomas , Beverley holds down a busy job as an executive with Boots in Nottingham . |
| 3 | He is best imagined as an old-fashioned sawbones before the invention of anaesthetics , carving away placidly while an assistant holds down the screaming patient . |
| 4 | He holds up a wooden multi-coloured fish . |
| 5 | [ Holds up an idealised portrait of Jesus with blond hair and blue eyes . ] |
| 6 | She holds up the American education system as an answer to the supposed link between language and class mobility . |
| 7 | He holds out a sunburned arm . |
| 8 | Every once in a while he holds out a small portion of meat , which the Skeleton chews furiously and swallows , with the same lack of success as before . |
| 9 | Dwayne holds out a freckled ham . |
| 10 | And while the performance of the Alpine is in the supercar league , the cost of using it , in terms of comfort , running costs and fuel economy , is definitely not — which holds out the enticing prospect of accomplishing long , fast continental journeys in great comfort and 25 mpg economy . |
| 11 | Far from being outdated , this old and broad conception of democracy holds out the only hope of compensating for the weaknesses of elected representative assemblies , dwarfed as they presently are by the bureaucratic and monopolistic structures of power which surround them . |
| 12 | The hot rocks technique holds out the best hope for exploitation of geothermal energy . |
| 13 | The scale of the potential danger emerged when it was revealed that the dam holds back an estimated 3.5 million tons of toxic sludge from a now-closed lead and zinc mine nearby , containing harmful levels of these and other metals . |
| 14 | The force of repression is like a great dam that holds back the raging torrents of the instincts of the unconscious and allows er some of them through , but others break through in holes , and holes and cracks appear which are the unconscious returning as one |
| 15 | Tonight he holds back the ill-concealed shudders and caresses the swelling head , he bends and kisses the skin exposed . |
| 16 | But many adult learners also hold down a full-time job , and in the middle of a hard week 's work they are likely to be tired . |
| 17 | ‘ Look here , you hold down a difficult and sensitive job . |
| 18 | TO find a special game in the Mega Drive version of Klax , merely hold down the Left and Up diagonal plus A , B , C and Start simultaneously at the title screen . |
| 19 | On reaching adulthood , people continue to strive to be better than others ; to earn more money , buy a larger home , hold down an interesting and fulfilling job and lead a rewarding life . |
| 20 | There is still tremendous distrust and infighting between and even among clans , with each claiming hold over a particular region of the country . |
| 21 | England hold off the Irish |
| 22 | Their single-minded preoccupation , you see , is to hang on to their present decade and hold off the Rubicon-crossing birthday beyond which grandmotherhood and whiskered chins threaten to throttle the last vestiges of good-time glamour . |
| 23 | To test the monitor , hold up a plain sheet of paper next to the screen . |
| 24 | ‘ go around and hold up the northern half of this wood . |
| 25 | Iraq , January 25 : Relatives hold up an Iraqi child injured in Allied Bombing raids on Baghdad . |
| 26 | The point of contact between British and French colonies was still on the seacoast , and here the British regular forces and the colonial militia co-operated effectively and captured the fortress of Louisbourg , which the French had fortified at immense cost to command the entrance to the St. Lawrence and hold back the British in Nova Scotia . |
| 27 | It was still convenient to hold that the Labour Party relied on a " left " Party " which will stand between the Communist Party and the Labour Party and hold back the British workers from following the revolutionary policy of the Communist International " . |
| 28 | This trend towards a greater reliance upon jobs in service industries does not by itself , however , hold out a great deal of hope for the long-term male unemployed , or the emerging underclass . |
| 29 | They are thus more ‘ moral ’ or , as he can also say , more ‘ teleological ’ than Islam , for they discern and hold out an ethical purpose and direction for human life . |
| 30 | Most spend much of their time feeding and bathing their mother , doing laundry and other household work , and sometimes also holding down a paid job , with only very limited opportunities for a break of any kind . |