Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] hold [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The path was stony ; that was why she let him hold on to her , and for no other reason . |
| 2 | This might enable them to hold on to around 100 of their present 270 seats . |
| 3 | the farmers will hope it holds off at least for the next few weeks . |
| 4 | ‘ However well acted and directed they are , Americans find they hold back on the emotions . |
| 5 | But the employers persuaded them to hold off until 1966 , when they settled for a mere 5 per cent rise over the three years to 1969 . |
| 6 | Mr Milosevic is urging the Bosnian Serbs to sign the plan because , he says , it would allow them to hold on to almost all the territory they have won by force . |
| 7 | ‘ Why did you hold out on him ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I was quite worried about making it hold up on the screen for two-and-a-half hours and it gave me pause . |
| 9 | ‘ Reason tells me I do right to let you go , yet my heart urges me to hold on to you … ’ |
| 10 | Second , at the very tip of their abdomen they possess a hook-like structure which enables them to hold on to the shell . |
| 11 | Does it hold on to the exclusive for its major shareholders or go with its journalistic impulses ? |
| 12 | To maintain her riskless arbitrage , Mary was instantly required to sell her holding in Metal Bashers Ltd , buy shares in British Telecommunications to bring her holding up to 10% of her portfolio and sell part of her holding in each of the other 99 companies to reduce their average weight in her portfolio to 0.909% . |
| 13 | I think it will help us to hold on to what I am going to say if we keep in mind two pictures : a hallway of a house , and a telephone . |