Example sentences of "held [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the smallest noise she held nervously to Moore 's arm . |
| 2 | In the event , by the intervention of the umpire , Norrish was given enough room after two minutes to grasp the stream and she held on to her advantage with great skill until Oxford were clear and the race was won . |
| 3 | He hit a single that brought two runners home , and San Francisco held on to win 3-2 and take the National League title 4-1 . |
| 4 | I held on to her and called for help . ’ |
| 5 | Iro squandered a couple of chances close to the line at the start of the second half , but held on to Clark 's pass to make room for Edwards to score in the 50th minute , Phil Bancroft adding a touchline goal off the post . |
| 6 | In 1988 he crushed a vain attempt to challenge his leadership by the veteran Tony Benn , with an 8 to 1 majority , while Roy Hattersley comfortably held on to the deputy leadership . |
| 7 | Vauxhall held on to second spot with 21,679 sales ( down 6994 ) . |
| 8 | She held on to her mother , clawing at the lapels of her coat . |
| 9 | IMRAN KHAN became the fifth player in Test history to take 350 wickets — joining Richard Hadlee , Ian Botham , Dennis Lillee and Kapil Dev — when he held on to a fine one-handed return catch to dismiss Ravi Shastri yesterday as India lost their last seven wickets for 143 on the second day of the fourth and final Test in Sialkot . |
| 10 | The Hungerfords of Farleigh Hungerford , the all-powerful local family in medieval times , bought Iford , which was then a mill , in 1369 and held on to it for four centuries . |
| 11 | McLeish held on to his temper , reminding himself that he was very tired . |
| 12 | In a Los Angeles Times poll in mid-December people were asked what policy they would support if Iraq pulled out of most of Kuwait but held on to an oilfield and some other land . |
| 13 | Nomura held on to top spot in the annual Eurobond underwriting rankings while other Japanese firms slipped ; Yamaichi dropped to tenth while London 's CSFB shot up to second place . |
| 14 | He held on to his love of unregimented activity in the open air , away from encroaching London suburbia , and he cherished a sense of belonging to another country — Cambria or Gwalia , Glamorgan or Gwent — in addition to the still strange city he was slowly beginning to explore along both banks of the Thames . |
| 15 | Lee held on to Caspar who was pulling , while Philip bolted the door , forcing it , and picked up the torch that Lee had dropped . |
| 16 | To Marquand , MacDonald 's real fault was that he held on to his nineteenth-century principles for too long . |
| 17 | Otley and I held on to him while Nigel searched for a large piece of wood to haul him out with , and in the meantime we had a close-up of the lush vegetation of the riverside : buttercups , forget-me-nots , dog roses and honeysuckle and the shy little water avens modestly hiding its peach-coloured face . |
| 18 | Now , Eleanor Thorne was eighty-nine years old , and her conversation was erratic , but Dorothea still sat with her , and for the odd fifteen or twenty minutes , and sometimes as long as an hour , they would talk , as they had always done and the present world swung temporarily into focus for the old lady , and she held on to it , like a crystal ball , firmly in her hand . |
| 19 | He held on to it for as long as he could . |
| 20 | ‘ No , they held on to them , and the newly free Roman Catholics had to build new ones , ’ I explained , ‘ What denomination are you , by the way ? ’ |
| 21 | Holding on still with one hand , I took a visual line ahead from the north needle to mark into memory the furthest small tree I could see , then put the compass away again and with infinite slowness clawed a way forward by inches and after a while reached the target and held on to it for dear life . |
| 22 | Brackley , leading 6-5 after seven ends , collected scores on the next six to build a cushion of eight shots and held on to finish 17-9 ahead . |
| 23 | For art 's sake , Yeats held on to the myth of his high , unrequited love ( he even proposed marriage to Maud 's daughter when the child grew old enough to look just like her mother did , so long ago ) . |
| 24 | Persson dominated the first game and his venomous top spin attack proved too strong for even Chen 's defences as they were breached 21–8 but Chen held on to an even scoreline in the second game . |
| 25 | I smiled understanding and held on to the last wedge of the broken window , catching glimpses of the brown Yucay River snaking its way between the terraced hills . |
| 26 | It is as follows : that the decision to turn off a ventilator is , in fact , a decision to terminate the life of a patient or to remove from a patient the last thread by which he held on to life . |
| 27 | They rejected bananas and held on to buttoned coats . |
| 28 | Jazz , whose father drove a Mercedes , winced and held on to his seat . |
| 29 | She bent her head into it and held on to her hat . |
| 30 | He merely held on to it , while Bruce pulled him , and with a gurgle of laughter the boy found the apple was in his hand . |