Example sentences of "hold it up " in BNC.
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| 1 | She holds it up in different lights and tries to con its meaning . |
| 2 | You not only see the food , you feel it in your hands , distinct and concrete , you are aware of its rich and striking smell ; someone in the dream even holds it up to your lips , but every time a different circumstance intervenes to prevent the consummation of the act . |
| 3 | ( Licks his finger and holds it up — facing audience . ) |
| 4 | ( GUIL licks a finger , holds it up experimentally . ) |
| 5 | She reaches for one of these , holds it up : ‘ Aha ! |
| 6 | After a while he opens his case , takes out a glass vial and holds it up to the light . |
| 7 | hits his clearance to the halfway line , controlled immediately by inside the centre circle , he was unmarked , has to careful here , and he is n't careful , it 's won back by , now he 's got to the right , running into the penalty area , could do with an early cross , holds it up , slips it back , knocks it in to the middle now , jumps , does n't make contact , it 's headed away by and good play now between and , gets it back to , 's clearance , onto the head of , good header on too to . |
| 8 | But now could move them forward again down this right hand side , he holds it up , fifteen yards inside the Shrewsbury half , turns it in , fields short to David , now takes over , hooks it up towards the penalty area , headed down by , good break for |
| 9 | It 's a throw-in to David of Blackburn , down the right hand side , that one 's headed on by Stewart , the clearance from , is picked up by David who nipped in there ahead of and now here 's once more down the inside left channel , pushing it up towards the edge of the penalty area where holds it up well , they 're working well at the moment down that left hand side as gets it across , a snatched header comes in and it 's pushed behind by Chris for a corner kick , and we 're at the midway point of the second half , with Shrewsbury leading three two , Alan will describe it for you . |
| 10 | Drill nail holes in the batten , hold it up to the wall , and drill through one batten hole into the tiling . |
| 11 | You can take your time , touch the material , hold it up against you , take it to the door and look at it . |
| 12 | Before buying a tie , hold it up by the skinny end , like a fish . |
| 13 | Trim any broken or damaged roots cleanly and , if you are planting a bush , hold it up and look at it carefully . |
| 14 | Hold it up , now you 're reducing the pressure to the area because the heart 's got to pump harder to get it up there okay , so we hold the hand or the limb higher than the heart and that will reduce the pressure still further , the ends of the blood vessels contract so how can we help them to contract even more ? |
| 15 | Cardiff watched him scan the wall , and then hold it up to the ceiling . |
| 16 | Hold it up in front of him like a cross in front of Dracula ? |
| 17 | One , come on , hold it up , two , three on that hand , three on this hand . |
| 18 | hold it up . |
| 19 | The first pad , if you hold it up against any of the other pads , you 'll see that it 's actually slightly shorter . |
| 20 | in the bottom of the cup , it just when you hold the cup up to the light , the picture comes through , you know it 's , the shape and the colours come through when you hold it up to the light |
| 21 | You hold it up and I 'll see I ca n't say what it is unless you show me . |
| 22 | Yeah , and then hold it up , do you know what I mean ? |
| 23 | hold it up to the light |
| 24 | You hold it up |
| 25 | If you go into that weekly han , that session hand-up booklet , that one yes , if you just hold it up Alistair , so everybody can see it , I know you may have put it away sorry , I think it 's good practice is n't it ? |
| 26 | Just look at that ( stabbing a piece and holding it up in mid-air ) . |
| 27 | ‘ What in lawks name is this ! ’ said the nurse holding it up . |
| 28 | ‘ I recognized her when her wig fell off , ’ my abductor said , holding it up with the scarf . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's only a handkerchief , ’ Tumbleweed said , holding it up . |
| 30 | It was as big as the island itself , if not bigger , and the rocks below seemed to be wobbling under the strain of holding it up . |