Example sentences of "hold [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a general rule Green in his Guide recommends the skies be a quarter blue and three quarters grey , and he holds himself to this idea most strictly . |
| 2 | It clutches the note , screws it up and holds it to its greasy black coat . |
| 3 | According to the 1929 Encyclopaedia Britannica , one theory of consciousness holds it to be inherent in every atom of the body . |
| 4 | It is to require banks to hold capital specifically against market risk — broadly , the chance that the price of a share or a bond or a currency , for example , will fall , and expose the bank that holds it to loss . |
| 5 | Just in case they hold me to a four week |
| 6 | We should take them at their word and hold them to it , rather than resign ourselves to the judgment that they have been lying . |
| 7 | It was all so unreal , she felt she had to write it down to prove it was happening , to have it and hold it to her heart . |
| 8 | All she had to do was remove the safety cap from the autoinjector , hold it to her thigh , press a red button at the other end and wait 10 seconds . |
| 9 | Hold it to the light , with the eye pointing up and down , and you should observe that the thickness of the shaft is scalloped away by 50% just above the eye on the rear face . |
| 10 | ‘ Development ’ may appear in any one writer 's successful novels ; in successful stories , I hold it to be a myth . ’ |
| 11 | Some of them try to dissociate themselves from their group and ‘ fondly imagine ’ their identity to be ‘ different from what others hold it to be ’ . |
| 12 | I borrow the gun and hold it to the big guy 's head . |
| 13 | ‘ Hold it to your nose . |
| 14 | They indicate that their holders identify with their society and hold themselves to be under an obligation to obey the law which they regard as expressing that attitude . |
| 15 | Sandwiched between them are Gloucester who lost their 100 per cent record at Saracens , the London club holding them to a 12–12 draw . |
| 16 | If you use secret gestures , such as hiding your papers or holding them to you , people will assume you have something to hide : use open ones and they will not try to read your notes or see your papers . |
| 17 | No injustice would be caused to these States by holding them to their agreement , for ‘ as a general rule , those who engage in transactions of an economic nature are deemed liable for the obligations which flow therefrom ’ . |
| 18 | I hear from him regularly but it 's not the same as holding them to you . |
| 19 | " Thus in the case of two drops of water " he says — " we can abstract altogether from all internal difference ( of quality and quantity ) , and the mere fact that they have been intuited simultaneously in different spatial positions is sufficient justification for holding them to be numerically different . |
| 20 | But still the horses would n't budge : they were fixed as if something was holding them to the road . |
| 21 | He came forward and embraced Li Yuan , holding him to his breast , one hand smoothing the back of his neck . |
| 22 | Chicken Likken was holding him to her breast with her wings , trying to comfort him . |
| 23 | Either the directive or the reasons for holding it to be binding should be counted but not both . |
| 24 | And does the board add value by enhancing the wisdom of management as well as holding it to account ? |
| 25 | The telephone watch receiver is used in two ways : ( 1 ) holding it to your other ear when using the ‘ phone may ( depending on your hearing loss ) provide better speech reception and prevent interference from background noise ; ( 2 ) you speak on the telephone in the ordinary way , and someone ( a child can do it ) listens through the watch receiver and repeats to you what the speaker says , which you then speechread and reply direct to the caller . |
| 26 | The original holder ( i.e. whoever has lent the money ) will buy the bill at a discount and earn a return by holding it to maturity when its redemption value is paid . |
| 27 | Section 18 could be interpreted as holding it to be illegal to wound or cause grievous bodily harm to the accused himself , provided the ulterior intent is satisfied . |
| 28 | He brought the hand still holding hers to her mouth , his finger tracing the shape of her lips . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Bank CDs are negotiable pieces of paper ; you do not have to hold them to maturity ; you can sell them instead . |