Example sentences of "[conj] be hold [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | and I 've re I have quite a high awareness about women 's position in society , but because of that I feel that I 've now come to reject the term feminism because erm I think it 's also harming the people who , you know , it 's harming the women that are holding on to that er , label because it is label and that is erm because it 's , because it 's a label it then it 's blocking er forms progress for women . |
| 2 | She , who had always helped lame dogs , now refused the many helping hands that were held out to her , because they only hauled her back , temporarily , into a life of comfort from which she would later have to return to reality . |
| 3 | People would still be living here who had been in residence since before the war and were holding on to controlled tenancies until dislodged by offers of cash or other accommodation , but they would not be there much longer . |
| 4 | A dispute about a cheque was referred to counsel in Boyd v Emmerson ( 1834 ) 2 AD & E 183 , and was held not to be an arbitration . |
| 5 | The burden he carried with such curious tenderness was a drawstring bag of soft leather , with some rigid shape within it , that filled his arms and was held jealously to his heart , the anchoring strings around one wrist for safety , as though he went in dread of loss . |