Example sentences of "was that hold " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she knew how urgent and fervent their kisses had been , how close Lucy had been to abandoning whatever it was that held her back , made her withhold her beautiful body . |
| 2 | Whatever this strange apparition was that held them in its awe , reality would return when the bangs announced a train that belonged to this world . |
| 3 | The first university professorship bearing the title ‘ social anthropology ’ was that held on an honorary basis at Liverpool University in 1908 by Sir James George Frazer ( 1854–1941 ) , author of the mammoth Victorian best-seller The Golden Bough ( first edition 1890 ) which , with its strong appeal to a readership brought-up on the classics , did much to establish the new subject 's credentials . |
| 4 | They did not know then , were not to know for many years , were never fully to understand what it was that held them together — a sense of being on the margins of English life , perhaps , a sense of being outsiders , looking in from a cold street through a lighted window into a warm lit room that later might prove to be their own ? |
| 5 | Perhaps the magic of science would overcome this detestable witchcraft ( or whatever it was that held me in thrall ) . |