Example sentences of "hold [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if Hanson holds on to the British end of the ARC operation , it still has a long list of ConsGold assets to offload including : |
| 2 | Even Baumrind ( 1982 ) , supporting Gilligan 's different voice hypothesis against what she sees as the traditionalism of the psychology of androgyny , holds on to the traditional framework of Jungian psychology in order to do this , and later ( 1986 ) , reinterprets the hypothesis in a humanist and spiritual framework , which is not differentiated by gender . |
| 3 | As long as a son holds on to the mother as a love-object he must ineluctably be in conflict with the father , just as , conversely , as soon as he accepts the paternal authority and identifies with his father to constitute his superego he must suppress his fundamental parricidal antagonism and with it his incestuous fixation . |
| 4 | So my suggestion and this is only a suggestion , the beards which in the past have been interpreted as a kind of erm epigrammatic signal , in other words a kind of erm sign on the face of the male as they 're deceived , my guess is that , th that beards may actually have evolved to protect the throat because erm the critical thing in , in killing somebody is to block the , the windpipe and that 's and in fact even , even lions do this , you saw in the film when a lion kills an antelope or something , he does n't go to all the trouble of making horrible gashes , he grabs the , the windpipe and holds on until the antelope or whatever it is is just er |
| 5 | He will not , however , be liable for rent which accrues due after the expiry of the contractual term if an assignee holds over under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , unless there are clear contractual provisions to this effect ( City of London Corporation v Fell [ 1993 ] 04 EG 115 ) . |
| 6 | A person who holds over at the end of a lease is not a trespasser until demand is made , as only the person in possession can be trespassed against ( Hey v Moorhouse ( 1839 ) 6 Bing NC 52 ) . |
| 7 | But the more one looks at the character of the prison population the more one is struck by the magnifying mirror that it holds up to the inequalities of our society . |
| 8 | But it is not a model that holds up for the twentieth century , when liberalization of the divorce law was not a matter of last resort but was rather always proposed as a means of strengthening the institution of marriage ( by permitting those ‘ living in sin ’ to remarry ) ; when opinion shifted with dramatic speed , for example between the conservative recommendations of the 1956 Royal Commission on Divorce and the endorsement of profound liberalization given a mere ten years later by both the Law Commission and the Church of England ; and when the change in views of key institutions such as the Church of England were as important as those of lawyers . |
| 9 | Only Rugby Union holds out against the commercial tide despite widespread speculation about covert payments to players . |
| 10 | hold on at the back , one question |
| 11 | Hold on to the edge of 1 bench with your hands behind your back . |
| 12 | ‘ Hold on to the sledge rails here — keep a loose grip or your hands get tired — try not to keep your foot on the brake ( a miniature snow hook held off the snow by an elasticated octopus grip ) or your other leg will get tired — do n't shout too much at the dogs or they get confused — the occasional quiet word is helpful — on downhills brake gently if you need to so that the line stays tight . ' |
| 13 | The crosser is required to tight-rope walk on the single strand below and hold on to the two other lines for balance . |
| 14 | If we hold on to the suffering of those nearest to us , we may not be strong enough to offer any real help by lifting them from whatever is affecting them . |
| 15 | Instead , look for a protein based product that is acid balanced to keep the cuticle tight and hold on to the colour . |
| 16 | Hold on to the furthest part of the leg that you can reach without straining , lowering the body as close to the leg as possible . |
| 17 | And hold on to the bundles ! ’ |
| 18 | I 'll stay with you and hold on to the guns . |
| 19 | As long as doctors hold on to the role of being omnipotent , it is not surprising they need defences . |
| 20 | You sit on the saddle and try and keep your balance and hold on to the handlebars . |
| 21 | Hold on to the case chassis with your other hand to eliminate the possibility of static discharge between your thumb and the integrated circuit . |
| 22 | That 's it because what you well you either hold on to the first five or six and then you lose the rest or sometimes you remember the beginning and the end and you lose the bit in the middle , ah . |
| 23 | If you 're not gon na sit straight then hold on to the computer ! |
| 24 | Ann said hold on to the pattern , she said I do n't know what to do , erm knit them |
| 25 | By the way , It looks like they 've improved the ticket line a bit , there is now a queueing system which you get held on , so you now get through after about an hour rather than 3 , and then hold on in the queue for the other two hours : - ) |
| 26 | Well when you had your grab , you used to lower it on the deck of the , deck of the erm trawler and when you open your grab , that much , a lot of it hold up in the grab you see , you could n't get so of course when you did take your grab up , lot of it went over the side . |
| 27 | Scrubby hawthorns hold back at the brink . |
| 28 | ‘ However well acted and directed they are , Americans find they hold back on the emotions . |
| 29 | Hold the tape measure loosely round the pulled back curtain and hold back against the hook . |
| 30 | there 's another meaning to the word respect , which is what is shown up by the Stoke Newington incident , and other similar incidents , in that , you can only respect somebody if they actually live up to the standards that they actually hold out to the rest of you . |