Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [adj] hold on to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pop had bought a large inflated life jacket for me to wear in case of our ship being sunk , in which case you were all to hold on to the cords round my waist , and he would swim round and act as a watchdog ! |
| 2 | I 'm happy with the five hundred thousand pounds suggestion , but my view when you come to the papers , if we are able to hold on to the two hundred thousand contingency we 've got for community care for the elderly and , and the hundred thousand we 've got for bad debts and other figures . |
| 3 | They 're able to hold on to that for the duration of the talk and be able to understand them as concepts and therefore it helps to put over the ideas . |
| 4 | It is important to hold on to our hats and remember that it was quite well reviewed at the time . |
| 5 | Most French people believed it was essential to hold on to their Empire in the late 1940s . |
| 6 | At this very moment it was difficult to hold on to her reservations about him ; difficult and almost impossible not to fit in and go along with his present mood and be more than happy to do so . |