Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] hold " in BNC.

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31 I find I 'm holding my breath .
32 If they do n't respond I will say the next letter will be , okay I am now resigning and your car and your stock wo n't be returned to you er but I 'm holding them in lieu .
33 And he had to do that every year in order to satisfy his stance his hat that he was wearing , that he was actually being the boss , and knocking the workers down , look I 'm holding down , what twenty-two point on six , er and he believed that my need was that I could go back to my manager , and say , look I got him up to two point one , .
34 I could n't give him cover because the see shield is is quite a heavy cumbers cumbersome thing and it has two handles behind it erm and they are obviously the means of holding it up and f for directing it wherever you want so I 'm holding this all the time so he ca n't pass his weapon to me and he ca n't put his weapon in my holster because my gun was in the holster .
35 Absolutely , and you will find when we look on the video the number of people who held up a piece of paper if you hold things up and I 'm holding this now because I 'm about to write but if if you stand here and hold a piece of paper then it 's very difficult to make symmetrical palm gestures , open palm gestures .
36 I 'm holding it for you — ’
37 exactly , yeah and we can do that with everything , we can do that with everything , this is my perception and that 's your perception of this thing that I 'm holding in my hand , everything that we 've seen have that ability you know , we 've got the ability to do that with everything , what we need to do sometimes is walk around the issue if you like and look at it from another perspective and , and this is what we 're doing with Ethiopia , now , erm , the good section again was looking at images and particularly the fact that a lot of images are very negative and throwing an alternative view , the second section we 're looking at news coverage which is very sketchy , erm , it does n't provide a complete picture at all , and this third section well you saw what that 's about there
38 If I 'm holding anything , so that I 'm holding the hand in one position for a long time
39 If I 'm holding anything , so that I 'm holding the hand in one position for a long time
40 I 'm using it to ho , I 'm holding at it .
41 Delegates , can you see what I 'm holding .
42 I 'm holding the record for most days off .
43 This is why , at the moment , I 'm being a bit cautious about remaining in my cavity I do n't want to find myself in the situation that I 'm held to sell .
44 I wish we were having a picnic , and that it was hot , and I do indeed wish that we were all together ; though even if I were to hold the whole world against my chest , it would probably save us from very little .
45 The first move will be to alert all my known contacts , to request that I be held incommunicado if I approach any of them … ’
46 as if I was holding the thought in my hands , looking at it , turning it about .
47 I felt disinclined actually to hand to him the piece of paper I was holding , and so put it down on the end of his bed .
48 I was weathering the winter and believed that if there was anything in my lung , then at the very worst I was holding it at bay .
49 So I dreamed I was holding
50 I was holding a slimming exhibition at the beginning of September at the Holiday Inn , Leicester , and wanted as much publicity as possible to attract visitors .
51 I associated the whole family thing with being older and I was holding on to my youth .
52 When Not-Flaubert spotted his name on the piece of cardboard I was holding , he simply stopped pushing the trolley , left it standing among the shoving airport crowd and walked towards Jeeta and his wife-to-be , Jamila .
53 Blood from my arm came streaming back into my face , in spite of the fact that I was holding the stump as tightly as I could .
54 I was holding something .
55 ‘ I really think I was holding back .
56 ‘ But I never connected the baby I was holding with the baby who was kidnapped .
57 Dawn is particularly inquisitive , and I soon discovered she would never fly properly in a new area without investigating it first , even if I was holding out food for her .
58 Michael was after me to , but I was holding off .
59 We had all heard rumours about the Legion 's paras , and I was holding myself to my vow made in the bathroom in Wales nearly ten years before .
60 as I was holding on a particular images and create and then become those energy
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