Example sentences of "hold [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Don Johnson holds on to a chic Melanie Griffith ( above ) |
| 2 | 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 : |
| 3 | Perhaps that last phrase gives us a clue as to why fundamentalism holds on so tenaciously to life . |
| 4 | However , Merrill Lynch is running the risk of suffering a substantial loss if the market price holds on to any substantial premium . |
| 5 | Analysts believe the FT-SE 100 could fall by about 150 points if Mr Kinnock gains power ; if Mr Major holds on , the index could jump 300 points or more , especially since the resultant strength of sterling might produce room for an interest rate cut . |
| 6 | A woman may convince herself that if she holds on , is patient , and tries to change things , she can bring it back to life . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The ash is a classic example of a tree which holds on to its fruits well into the next season even though they may have been ripe since October . |
| 9 | Then there is the decay of the tree which sometimes holds on to a little bit of life well past when it should die completely . |
| 10 | Ariel feels the old woman flapping feebly with her legs , and though she holds on , Sycorax slides off her back and on to the ground ; she cries to Ariel again to run , run as hard as she can , and from the ground she begins to shriek , till the guard himself cries out , and drops on one knee to take aim in the pitch dark . |
| 11 | But not going when you need to causes water absorption and hardening , and the longer the child holds on to a movement , the harder it will be — making the problem worse . |
| 12 | It holds on and keeps the gentle tears away . |
| 13 | holds on to its water . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | Bruce shows how he holds on with a metal clip … |
| 17 | Andrew jumped up , holds on to it , was standing with two . |
| 18 | everything would be absolutely soaking , and I 'd try and get it off of him but he holds on to it so tight |
| 19 | The flag stays down , he 's wide on the left hand side , goes to close him down , holds on , he 's on the edge of the area , he shoots , and the shot is charged down and then pushed behind , no rescues it , good work by , sheer determination by the Notts goalkeeper , acting almost as an extra defender . |
| 20 | And the very player that I was talking about then , turns up now down the left hand side , he holds on so well , the cross again , and er again almost gets the cross in and our er colleague from the Italian service is er getting very excited a just away to my left , but er the header is wide , he can calm down a little , have an aspirin , and it 's still two one for Notts , but er Pisa they 're a danger , and to me they look far more dangerous than the Italian opponents in the last game here at Lane in this same competition . |
| 21 | The equation between study in higher education and social mobility still holds in curiously similar ways . |
| 22 | Seven years after losing her sight Philippa now holds down a full-time job . |
| 23 | Though some firms have pulled out , there are still too many market-makers in both gilts and equities , which holds down everyone 's earnings . |
| 24 | The Concorde post , which observers have unkindly suggested should disqualify the incumbent from any positions of responsibility in the future , was held between 1966 and 1970 by Sir James Hamilton , who holds down today a key position within the bureaucracy of the Department of Education and science . |
| 25 | Play them in order and make sure that your thumb , which holds down the root of the G chords , also deadens the A string … |
| 26 | He is best imagined as an old-fashioned sawbones before the invention of anaesthetics , carving away placidly while an assistant holds down the screaming patient . |
| 27 | As well as looking after Thomas , Beverley holds down a busy job as an executive with Boots in Nottingham . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | In addition , the original tenant will be liable to pay damages if an assignee holds over unlawfully as a trespasser ( Thames Manufacturing Co Ltd v Perrots ( Nichol & Peyton ) Ltd ( 1984 ) 271 EG 284 ) . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |