Example sentences of "hold back the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The child becomes frightened and holds back the faeces making the constipation worse ( Levine and Bakow 1976 ) . |
| 2 | It holds back the contribution to the economy of many highly skilled workers . |
| 3 | Thus children have to suppress their grief , and hold back the tears and pain . |
| 4 | Big men do n't cry so the saying goes , so I hold back the tears — but they 're there none the less . |
| 5 | If I hold back the tears , the feeling becomes locked or blocked in my body . |
| 6 | I think the danger for U2 is not just achieving , but holding back the achievement . |
| 7 | She smiled , her jaw aching from the effort of holding back the tears . |
| 8 | Holding back the tears , she grabbed her bag and stumbled from the house . |
| 9 | The Conservatives ' strategy of holding back the state pension on the ground that the deficit could be made good by additional private sector pensions has been blown out of the water , not least by the vulnerability of occupational pensions which we have witnessed recently and by the under-performance and the milking of private pension schemes themselves . |
| 10 | Sir Anthony had concluded his business with the plump lawyer as far as he was able to overcome his distaste for discussing deals or mentioning money , and he was holding back the brambles for her , as it were , letting her into their company , and she butted through , a young dog again , let out for a walk . |
| 11 | Two factors are holding back the development of GIS applications . |
| 12 | After that , there was no holding back the flow of American capital into the British industry . |
| 13 | Now Philips wants the EEC to take a hand in holding back the tide of Japanese machines , some of which , it says , are being ‘ dumped ’ in Europe at below cost-price . |
| 14 | The new Emperor had seen how instrumental it had been in holding back the tide of Chaos and wanted to add yet another weapon to mankind 's arsenal . |
| 15 | She drank it thirstily , holding back the bits of herb and onion with a teaspoon . |
| 16 | Clearly he had not been content to wait , and as she looked at the hard , handsome face she knew he was furiously angry , only good manners holding back the words that were obviously uppermost in his mind . |
| 17 | The erotic implications of the subject , the motif of the figure holding back the curtain and the very prominent position of the still lifes , call to mind such works by Cézanne as l'Eternel Féminin , the various Temptations of St. Anthony and the Après-Midi à Naples . |
| 18 | Probyn — holding back the years |
| 19 | holding back the years |
| 20 | Estimates of the development cost vary greatly , but the high cost is certainly a principal factor in holding back the market . |
| 21 | Er , you can see that this is a I do n't know whether , it appears to be darker at the centre than it is round the edges , I do n't know whether you tried to burn it in just a little bit in the middle , holding back the edges , but it 's , it 's got sort of a darkish patch i in the centre . |
| 22 | New discoveries have opened up all kinds of possibilities for holding back the march of time . |
| 23 | ‘ Do you expect God to hold back the tide for us to float here all day , then , or do we turn in to Duart ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Serious Crimes Squad : you chaps are like Canute these days , trying to hold back the tide . ’ |
| 25 | So they sent in four coachmen who stood with whips extended between them to hold back the mob . |
| 26 | Mark was in a jogging phase , trying to hold back the river of age , puffing around in his new Nike Air . |
| 27 | Watson and Stadler have risen from a moribund state recently but it becomes Fred Couples 's lot to hold back the invasion . |
| 28 | It was impossible to hold back the enthusiasm of the church in its infancy . |
| 29 | He told himself that the office would have been an addition , built onto the end of what had before been an exterior wall of brick and therefore powerful enough to hold back the spread of the flames . |
| 30 | There was a long pause as we all tried to hold back the giggles . |