Example sentences of "to hold [adv] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swindon insist there 's been no formal approach by Cheslea and still hope to hold on to the architect of Monday 's triumph . |
| 2 | Among the bidders was a landlady fighting to hold on to the country inn she 's run for the past eight years.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 3 | To hold on to the substance that is him , |
| 4 | Second , at the very tip of their abdomen they possess a hook-like structure which enables them to hold on to the shell . |
| 5 | One , from a McKeever header , was particularly outstanding , the Duns keeper throwing himself to his right and managing to hold on to the ball . |
| 6 | He was giving her orders : she was to hold on to the edge of the pool and breathe deeply in and out . |
| 7 | Chris had to hold on to the grab handle of the jeep or she would have been flung out . |
| 8 | At this juncture I merely want to hold on to the notion that workers are pressed , for a variety of reasons , into a dependent position of an infantile-like nature , which is felt to be unalterable , in many industrial enterprises . |
| 9 | She just had to hold on to the thought that , although he believed he knew who , he did n't know where . |
| 10 | " I can show you how , " he promised , " but we would have to hold on to the back of a chair . " |
| 11 | Mr Tim Devlin 's surprise victory for the Conservatives in Stockton South to hold on to the seat he won narrowly in 1987 from the prominent SDP man ( now Sir ) Ian Wrigglesworth was a classic example of the collapse of the centre vote working against Labour . |
| 12 | There are even moves to make commercial litigation more client-friendly , to hold on to the business that 's dribbling away southwards if not to attract more in . |
| 13 | She 'd tried to hold on to the anger she 'd felt earlier , but it had slipped away from her , dissolving with the wine . |
| 14 | When at the top he was disappointed to find no flag , but with some cautious experimentation discovered that he did not need to hold on to the pole — he could float . |
| 15 | Authorship is identity in the textual sphere , and hence gay people , like all marginal groups , have , at present , a political stake in wanting to hold on to the Author despite her/his expulsion from prevailing postmodernist theories . |
| 16 | These pads are not needed simply to hold on to the female , who remains passive . |
| 17 | The passion of his kisses on her throat were leaving her weak and she had to will her fingers to hold on to the bodice . |
| 18 | But I want to hold on to the role . ’ |
| 19 | As Tim said you have to hold on to the fact that these are real characters and their in a kind of confrontational situation here are n't they ? |
| 20 | While Chancellor Kohl 's CDU-CSU alliance holds 309 of the 652 seats , far more than its closest rivals , the Social Democrats , who have 239 , it could not govern without the support of Hans Dietrich-Genscher 's FDP — which is why Genscher has managed to hold on to the post of Foreign Minister for so long . |