Example sentences of "[noun prp] could hold " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second question was whether an increasingly beleaguered Gerry Adams could hold on to West Belfast . |
| 2 | IF England could hold their own against Pakistan , it would not only be a great achievement , but one which would make all the difference to their chances of regaining the Ashes from Australia in 1993 . |
| 3 | I wondered how many people in Chelmsford could hold the same conversation in German . |
| 4 | Even without his rose-coloured glasses , he realized that dressed in a pretty , long frock with her hair freshly waved , Cora-Beth could hold her own against any other young girl in the room . |
| 5 | CRASH survivor Mark Hayden could hold the key to an horrific accident in which two of his Army colleages died , police believe . |
| 6 | A master of spontaneous oratory , Asimov could hold forth on almost any subject with brilliant lucidity — as in his much-cited off-the-cuff description of how human life depends on the Sun : ‘ All of us are living in the light and warmth of a huge hydrogen bomb , 860,000 miles across and 93 million miles away , which is in a state of continuous explosion . ’ |