Example sentences of "be holding [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are holding letters from the great Henry Cavendish . |
| 2 | John and Paul are holding hands in the back seat . |
| 3 | She could see Spencer quite clearly , he appeared to be holding court among the elderly distant relatives who had travelled from all parts of the country to be at the funeral . |
| 4 | We shall be holding meetings in the new offices , but we shall continue to use Kingsgate House and other DTI buildings in the Victoria Street area . |
| 5 | I could n't tell you what , but they collected quite a lot of money for us and er , and er , er , they were holding things there , er people were holding boxes at the bottom of the gate like and er |
| 6 | They were holding hands with the figure in the middle . |
| 7 | York Children 's Trust is holding talks with the city council to find suitable sites for two statues commemorating the Blue and Grey Coat schools for the poor . |
| 8 | York Children 's Trust is holding talks with the city council to find suitable sites for two statues commemorating the Blue and Grey Coat schools for the poor . |
| 9 | Manchester University is holding data from the 1991 Census both as microdata and as aggregated tables . |
| 10 | The waiters were all busy at that moment so I picked up a full glass from the table and fought my way to where she was holding court in the middle of the mass — standing up , of course . |