Example sentences of "have hold on to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he added : ‘ Everybody recognises that the Government has to hold on to an existing policy until the replacement is ready to put in place , and clearly the Secretary of State has to hold to his policy until an alternative has been agreed . ’ |
| 2 | One no longer has to hold on to any specifically human end , because the circumstances allow only a single and pre-human end , survival . |
| 3 | Office Cleaning has held on to its portfolio in the face of the fiercest price-competition I have known , and as the year has progressed our strengthening sales team has begun to make good headway . |
| 4 | Here 's an imag-inary line-up Leeds might be fielding now if they 'd held on to the stars they rejected . |
| 5 | It was difficult to deny the belief she 'd held on to for so long . |
| 6 | The police explained why they 'd held on to the vehicles which were being kept near Malvern , not at Worcester . |
| 7 | Consequently , he is continually having to hold on to a sense of humility while he listens to other people , otherwise he can too easily defend himself by taking up a judgemental posture . |
| 8 | I might have to hold on to it You 'll have to get people to you know . |
| 9 | " I can show you how , " he promised , " but we would have to hold on to the back of a chair . " |
| 10 | Perhaps Mr Dlouhy should have held on to his official Audi after all . |
| 11 | The huge " club fender " of early Edwardian times should have held on to its proper suggestions of Christmas , when a group of laughing guests sat there , full glasses in their hands , while child actors performed in a glittering pantomime , entrances and exits from behind the Christmas tree . |
| 12 | The New Improving Defence ( but should n't we have held on to Kerslake ? ) |
| 13 | Piggy would almost definitely have saved the boys as he could have held on to their love for civilisation by telling them his stories about his auntie , as both his parents were dead . |
| 14 | None of the earlier owners seem to have held on to the property for very long , for in 1647 , it was acquired by the Earl of Pembroke , then shortly afterwards , it was sold to Lord Pawlet , who is reported to have entertained General Fairfax at Chiswick House , on a number of occasions . |
| 15 | The field is led by Miró with a rise of 1090% one of the few artists to have held on to the gains of the 1988–90 period . |
| 16 | Surkov always had to hold on to his temper . |
| 17 | Jack had to hold on to him with all his strength . |
| 18 | When your sister died it was all I had to hold on to . |
| 19 | She had to hold on to her control . |
| 20 | Chris had to hold on to the grab handle of the jeep or she would have been flung out . |
| 21 | She just had to hold on to the thought that , although he believed he knew who , he did n't know where . |
| 22 | They tended to cast doubt on the objective nature of the atonement — at least the Catholic scholastics and Reformers had held on to that — stressing instead the subjective changes wrought in mankind by Christ 's sacrifice ( such as a growth in God-consciousness or moral transformation ) . |
| 23 | Enzo Ferrari has watched him in Monaco , where in the superannuated BRM he had held on to third place for a third of the race , and then at Zandvoort . |
| 24 | She had held on to his neck and wept . |
| 25 | I had held on to Lili , and Syl had brought me home insisting that our mothers should stay and go on to dinner with Lili and Robert and the gallery owner as planned . |
| 26 | At my first event in Fort Worth , I had held on to the few people I knew as though for dear life , terrified at the thought of being stranded in this great wilderness . |
| 27 | He had held on to her hand as her flight was called , and it had given her the way out without tears . |
| 28 | Tanzania 's President Ali Hassan Mwinyi was elected on Aug. 16 as chair of the ruling Chama cha Mapinduzi ( CCM ) party , with 1,846 out of 1,851 votes cast , in succession to the " elder statesman " leader Julius Nyerere , who had held on to the party chairmanship for five years since stepping down as state President in 1985 . |
| 29 | As Tim said you have to hold on to the fact that these are real characters and their in a kind of confrontational situation here are n't they ? |
| 30 | Because I 'm already vulnerable enough where you 're concerned and for my own sake I have to hold on to some degree of control . |