Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pron] hold " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover having gone as far as this I do not believe that it would be possible for me to hold the line and refuse to answer any further questions about the composition and activities of the Committees . |
| 2 | It was necessary to rest it on the lap because it was too heavy for her to hold up , which meant she had to sit leaning forward in order to read . |
| 3 | A number of people close by on the summit were busy like me holding the wall up with their backs and their morale up with cheese and onion doorsteps . |
| 4 | So really erm er you 'd have to be a bit careful if you were doing that , and er I think the revenue would be pretty iffy about you holding money and paying it to a third party . |
| 5 | Particularly away to Stuttgart when Leeds were desperate for someone to hold onto the ball to give the defence some respite . |
| 6 | He is also sceptical or the argument that parasuicides and the unemployed are linked by personality disorders which make it difficult for them to hold down jobs . |
| 7 | For a man who found it difficult to write for more than three hours a day it was one way of passing time but , more importantly , as he explained in an address in 1951 , it was necessary for him to hold a job which other people considered useful ; he had so little confidence in his own work that he did not want to risk wasting all of his time upon it . |
| 8 | It is not necessary for me to hold that otherwise lawful use of a highway can never amount to a public nuisance , whatever the circumstances and however excessive the use . |