Example sentences of "and [pron] hold " in BNC.
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| 1 | The watches were stopped and everyone held breath as the timekeepers turned for consultation with the track referee . |
| 2 | Then standing , you bent over and me holding you open … and sometimes , the strange sight of our mirrored selves , limbs and bodies wrapped around each other . ’ |
| 3 | For all these reasons I have come to the conclusion , and I hold , that section 39 does override the injunction . |
| 4 | For all these reasons , I have come to the conclusion , and I hold , that the banks have failed to bring themselves within article 5(1) . |
| 5 | For these reasons I have come to the conclusion and I hold , that the banks have failed to bring their case within article 5(3) . |
| 6 | For these reasons I have come to the conclusion , and I hold , that the banks have failed to bring themselves within article 6(1) . |
| 7 | It follows , and I hold , that the banks are unable to bring themselves within article 5(8) . |
| 8 | Ludo and I hold our clubs ; they hold three chains and a knife . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Carson Buchanan , Alf Jacobson and I held a meeting to discuss the situation ; the question was whether or not we should pull in our horns and try to placate the commercial stations and the politicians whom they had influenced . |
| 11 | D. A. I was on a school-crossing duty for disabled children and I held up my hand for a motor cyclist to stop and he rode right past me . |
| 12 | I 'd heard some of the other men in the village mention the possibility of a game reserve for tourists , and I held my breath , wondering if Kalchu was going to implicate me , as they had done . |
| 13 | Except that Ray and I held back , watching the rain wet the while ash , carry it down in trickling grey rills . |
| 14 | I could not quite believe that heaven existed , and I held tightly to Helen . |
| 15 | I was so relieved it was all over and my baby was alright and I held him for the first time . |
| 16 | She ran into my arms and I held her close . |
| 17 | She passed it across and I held it on my knees without opening it . |
| 18 | right so that must be a third okay and someone holds this up and says , What 's that ? |
| 19 | The unity of India was imperilled , he said , by a government which was ‘ at the mercy of the rightists and the charity of the leftists ’ and which held power only by the magnanimity of the Congress leader , Mr Rajiv Gandhi , who did not try to form a government . |
| 20 | One of the most popular forms of transport in London at that time was the omnibus drawn by a pair of horses — worked for three hours a day , with a rest every half-mile — which , by 1890 , had become double-deckers with an outside staircase at the back , and which held up to twenty-six passengers . |
| 21 | If Caps Lock is on and you hold down the shift key , lower case letters are typed |
| 22 | Okay , so there you are you see , you 're , you 're a first aider and you come up to the person and you hold it the way you did last time and you think ah , now that 's the wrong way round of course , there 's my elbow point , there 's my injured elbow , so I have to be that way round , mm , so you turn it round the other way , right , your elbow shape goes to the injured elbow and your long line goes straight up and down the line of the body , you arrange it so that you only just covering the forearm there , with just enough above the hand to tie your reef knot that would be too little and that would be too much just enough above the hands to tie your reef knot , the first thing you do is to tuck nice , big bit of material right under the hand and anchor it into position , just keep that resting there and all the rest of this goes under the arm up between the shoulder blades there and you tie your first half of the reef knot just above the fingers in the hollow of the neck here , now that 's important because round the back here if you press on that bit of muscle there , there 's a big band of muscle , if you 've got a knot on that it gives a great deal of discomfort very quickly so you want to get the knots round in the hollow here that does n't hurt your casualty , there , draw it up half the knot , is that tight enough ? |
| 23 | People who do this are actually given a training , this does n't hurt the baby , they do n't mind , their bones are very soft you 'll look at your baby , all of you can look at babies that you 're caring for and you hold them and you see well is that leg longer than the other ? |
| 24 | Right so if someone holds up this piece and you hold up this piece to your mum and you say what sort of fraction is this ? |
| 25 | I hold your hand and you hold mine . |
| 26 | We use them as rubber and you hold them in your arms , alright ? |
| 27 | And you hold them in your arm just see the wa I mix them up in the feed , I mix the feed up with some of it , and then tip it into the rubber you see . |
| 28 | and you hold your fork like that between the and then you just whisk it |
| 29 | Bend from the waist until the torso is horizontal , the arms are hanging out straight below , and you holding the barbell with hands shoulder width apart . |
| 30 | Such a programme for generalizing the curriculum will be attacked , especially by those who distinguish ‘ difficult ’ from ‘ soft ’ subjects , and who hold that the difficult is the specialized or narrow . |