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Example sentences of "he hold " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	He holds up a cricket bat .
2	Like a detective displaying the only clues in a case in which he has become personally involved , he holds out the croci with a shrug of quiet resolve .
3	Thus Akhsharumov directs the reader to something that makes him certain he holds a masterpiece in his hands before he has read half a dozen pages : a single pre-natal life , a foetal stirring and growth , no ordinary robust narrative sense of something afoot .
4	Stoute has stated that Cordoba 's Guineas odds are absurdly low , but there is no doubt that he holds the colt in extremely high regard .
5	In his discussion of the decay of English myth , he holds out only the slender hope of the music hall and laments that in general modern dramatists and probably modern audiences are ‘ terrified of the myth ’ .
6	IT MAY surprise Tony Parsons to know that real feminists have more important things to do than comment on the way he holds a teapot .
7	By holding the party together , he holds the country back
8	He holds some old-fashioned values to be self-evident , and they have informed his view of Iraq 's actions .
9	Well , the market will probably be up a year from now , and if he holds shares in all the ex-state companies ( 36 , less two taken over ) his risks are tolerably spread , with worthy water companies balancing clouded bits of aerospace .
10	What he can do is to say that the legal owner can not in conscience , in equity , make use of his Common Law right for his own benefit ; he must use it for the benefit of the man for whom he holds it in trust .
11	A leaseholder ( unless prohibited by his own lease ) can himself grant a lease for any term less than that which he holds ; a grant for an equal or greater term would be merely a transfer of his own interest .
12	Oh yes , Finn MacCool , the Son of Bright Apple , for he holds the Apple of Immortality .
13	Mr Hibbert disputes Mr Farrow 's ownership of the freehold and believes that he holds rights over the land .
14	He holds four national titles , three with Baxter .
15	He holds the bat aloft for comfort , so that his eyes remain level and he concentrates feverishly , believing it a greater crime to be out for 30 than for nought .
16	He holds the bat aloft for comfort , so that his eyes remain level and he concentrates feverishly , believing it a greater crime to be out for 30 than for nought .
17	Mr O'Neill does not disguise the fact that he holds strong personal targets .
18	He holds up a stick for all to see .
19	Man is derived from an ancestor that he holds in common with the existing great apes .
20	He holds Domestick Bus'ness and Devotion
21	He holds it away from himself as if it is a mirror , or something equally precious .
22	In his hand he holds the precious end of an old frayed piece of rope , the kind pedlars sold piles of on Lima 's Abancay — the beginnings of an answer .
23	He has strong , agile and indeed superb hands ; in the palm of his raised , right hand he holds out to you a miniature city , complete with dome , bridges and towers , the freedom of which he is offering you and which he has promised to protect .
24	faced with painful experiences , he holds his ground , fearless and unflinching .
25	He holds his hands passively forwards , and places his head on the carer 's shoulder , on the side away from the chair .
26	The patient is moved forward in the chair , and he holds his hands clasped together , to avoid the temptation of pushing himself off his chair , or pulling onto the other chair , which would throw him off balance and increase his spasticity .
27	He holds the trouser tightly outwards as he puts the unaffected leg into it , crosses this leg over the other again , and puts his shoe on .
28	He holds his violin low down , the bow fastidiously poised above it .
29	You 've got no idea in what regard he holds her .
30	He holds a visiting professorship at Nottingham University and an honorary chair in the School of Molecular and Biological Sciences , University of Stirling .