Example sentences of "be holding [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeing Anthea each day would be a constant reminder , and neither woman could deny that the masks of civility each had been holding up to the other for months were now trampled underfoot . |
| 2 | But he found that the job that awaited him there was several rungs lower than the job he had been holding down in the UK . |
| 3 | After the fourth session of the Hague peace conference on Sept. 26 , attended by the Foreign Ministers of all the republics , Lord Carrington said that the ceasefire seemed to be holding sufficiently for the conference to carry on and to accelerate its work . |
| 4 | He said we were holding on to the ball , but we wanted it to come out . |
| 5 | Mahdi Mohammed loyalists were holding out in the northern fringes of the capital . |
| 6 | However , this morning Beth Christie was brighter than usual ; she planned to shop for the dinner party she was holding later in the week . |
| 7 | He was holding on to the hand of one of the passengers who was bleeding rather badly . |
| 8 | When she recovered she was holding on to the edge of the table for balance . |
| 9 | It was holding on to the tree but I pulled it off . |
| 10 | And then she was holding on to the branches , feeling where the Robemaker had hacked and sawn at them , knowing she must be hurting the Larch even more , and trying to be as gentle as possible . |
| 11 | Mrs Sweet was holding out on the police . |
| 12 | The Brigadier , a little flushed with good wine , was holding forth about the qualities of modern officers . |