Example sentences of "she hold " in BNC.
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| 1 | The central figure , St Cecilia , seems rapt in such inspiration as produced her image in the painter 's mind ; her deep , dark , eloquent eyes lifted up ; her chestnut hair flung back from her forehead — she holds an organ in her hands — her countenance , as it were , calmed by the depth of its passion and rapture , and penetrated throughout with the warm and radiant light of life . |
| 2 | Literary , second-sighted , sick , she holds out a hand to him : he clasps it , but then decides he ca n't go on . |
| 3 | She holds up the American education system as an answer to the supposed link between language and class mobility . |
| 4 | Sometimes she holds onto my arm in the street — you know , just natural , like I 'm a girl and she 's just a friend or summat . |
| 5 | A SUBDUED , tearful Mrs Winnie Mandela announced her resignation yesterday as head of the African National Congress 's social welfare department , the highest office she holds in the organisation . |
| 6 | She holds a discussion on why people might choose to undertake the dangerous journey . |
| 7 | Real concrete problems , such as the fact that Germany is the biggest trading nation in Europe , 50% more populous than France or Britain , that she holds half of the Soviet Union 's debt and has lent more money in government-guaranteed credit to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union , can not be made to disappear with words . |
| 8 | She holds her head erect , her red-gold curls like a torch burning in the grey , misty atmosphere . |
| 9 | She holds it up in different lights and tries to con its meaning . |
| 10 | He finds Miriam appealing and she holds for him the added attraction of being married and committed herself . |
| 11 | This weakness is heightened by Marlena Mackey 's overemphatic performance — she holds an expression , goggle-eyed , like a tuning fork that vibrates long after being struck . |
| 12 | whenever she holds his hand . |
| 13 | Sitting in the living room of her Gothic house in Highgate , North London , she holds up her 1991 diary and points to the entry for May 6 . |
| 14 | Therefore merely the thought of exchanging gifts with the people she holds in mutual contempt was more awful than the prospect of being without her sons on Christmas Day . |
| 15 | A woman may convince herself that if she holds on , is patient , and tries to change things , she can bring it back to life . |
| 16 | Her arms encircle him … and she holds him close |
| 17 | She holds the adventurers at bay by holding the scroll over a candle flame and threatening to destroy it . |
| 18 | As such she holds tremendous power and prestige in Ulthuan . |
| 19 | ‘ She 's got this whistle thing she holds next to the receiver and it blasts your eardrums out . ’ |
| 20 | She holds her hat on her head with one hand . |
| 21 | She holds seminars on ‘ The Tao of Management ’ ( about ‘ working with the moment rather than patterns of the past , and using that to attempt predictions of the future ’ ) . |
| 22 | She holds out her flute . |
| 23 | OPHELIA has been sewing and she holds the garment . |
| 24 | She little knowing that the man she holds in her arms ! |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Organisational authority refers to the scope and amount of discretion given to a person to make decisions , by virtue of the position he or she holds in the organisation . |
| 27 | Actually she lights her torch at one of the candles in the church and somebody runs her up here in a car while she holds the torch out of the window . |
| 28 | ‘ Really known , I mean … not as a daughter knows her father , however deep the affection she holds for him . |
| 29 | She holds her novel like a hymnal . |
| 30 | She hoots and is about to say something , but she holds off in front of Darius and squints at me to see what I mean . |