Example sentences of "hold [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I thought the great central arch of two tree trunks looked like our Blessed Lord 's arms holding up the whole Church . |
| 32 | Come on , now , quickly , you 're holding up the whole party . ’ |
| 33 | ‘ Those cartridge cases are n't American issue , ’ I said , holding out the green-lacquered steel casings . |
| 34 | ‘ What 's this ? ’ she asked , holding out the DeValerian cards . |
| 35 | " There 's this , " he said , holding out the cardboard box . |
| 36 | She stared at him from behind the barrier of her flowers , wordlessly holding out the paper-wrapped roses . |
| 37 | Had a parachute on his back just like the rest , and holding out the holy cross in his hand . |
| 38 | While the rest of the inhabitants are in bed , citizens ' patrols keep the peace — groups of 15 men in cowboy hats , holding aloft the ragged blue-and-white national flag as they walk the cobbled streets . |
| 39 | Victory by 92 runs meant that Clive Lloyd was holding aloft the Prudential World Cup for the second time . |
| 40 | The rich carving of the High Altar is by Johann Ferdinand Schorr and although it is difficult to see without binoculars , above the High Altar is a painting depicting the victory of the Battle of the White Mountain , showing the Carmelites holding aloft the small icon of the Madonna . |
| 41 | She stood up , holding aloft the red geranium that had somehow slipped from Ronni 's hand . |
| 42 | My earliest recollection of Fred was when , as a schoolboy , I watched spellbound as he returned to his home in Belfast holding aloft the old Claret Jug , signifying his victory at Hoylake in 1947 . |
| 43 | The latter is an evocative nature ballad and a poignant portrait of the artist at sunset but the forecast says Cash will be mining riches and holding back the black night for many years to come . |
| 44 | Time now to put out the stuff from the back of the shelves , holding back the normal fare until everyone is back on the treadmill again . |
| 45 | But you , only you I am afraid , yes , only you out of everyone here , are holding back the entire production . |
| 46 | It was perhaps the argument that this imposition of middle-class morality was holding back the British cinema which led to the matter becoming an issue of public concern . |
| 47 | She stood in the window , holding back the heavy curtains , watching as Spencer climbed into his carriage and , with a wave to her , bowled off down the drive towards the roadway . |
| 48 | This means restraint in public spending and holding back the natural enthusiasm of a clutch of new ministers to open the purse strings . |
| 49 | The doctrine of the Trinity ‘ is not an immediate utterance concerning the Christian self-consciousness , but only a combination of several such utterances ’ ; that is , it serves to combine and hold together the different affirmations of the Christian consciousness concerning God the Father , Jesus , and the Holy Spirit , but it is essentially a theological construction which has its place in theology but should not be taken as expressing the truth about God . |
| 50 | I took over in August 1968 , far from sure that I 'd be able to hold down the key anchor-man role . |
| 51 | In the United States , Health Management Organisations were introduced in the early 1970s to hold down the formidable costs of American medicine by encouraging more competition between providers . |
| 52 | Desperately I tried to hold down the rising sickness I felt about the theft of my writing to listen to all he was telling . |
| 53 | For more than two weeks prior to Oct. 29 , the Central Bank had been selling an estimated US$50,000,000 in gold each day , in efforts to keep down the gold price ( and thereby to hold down the black-market dollar rate , whose divergence from the official rate provided a barometer of business confidence ) . |
| 54 | A man fit to rule with an iron hand , to hold down the wild men of the North , the seafarers of the isles and the wealthy Norman barons in the south . |
| 55 | However , the likelihood is that processing and seeking will be entirely overlapped so this will not hold up the overall run very seriously . |
| 56 | They are itching to hold up the red card to an establishment that does n't believe that ex-pros have the right pedigree to control top matches . |
| 57 | They walked out to his car together in a contented silence , and when they got there he came round to the passenger side to hold back the low tendrils of an overhanging jasmine vine so she could slide easily into the seat . |
| 58 | Religion 's as good as dead , there 's nothing to hold back the New People , they 'll grow stronger and stronger and swamp us . |
| 59 | Conservative Ministers were , then , no more able than Gaitskell to hold back the rising tide of demand for electricity , which , if the system were not to break down and new connections to be refused , the Boards had to follow up with new investment . |
| 60 | Their job was to hold back the Chinese , and they did . |