Example sentences of "[pers pn] was hold [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I associated the whole family thing with being older and I was holding on to my youth . |
| 2 | I was so cold today , yeah , I got a , I filled up that kettle and I boiled it and I got , I was holding on to it and I fell backwards on to my bed and I burnt myself |
| 3 | What I was holding out for hung on a pretty slender thread and I could n't let my life be dominated by it . |
| 4 | I was actually mugged on holiday er then years ago and I was held up with a gun and it was the most horrendous feeling |
| 5 | However , I was held up on my way to the airport by heavy rain and I missed the plane . |
| 6 | I joined it at Sanguinaro , where I was held up by a Feldgendarm on a motorcycle . |
| 7 | I was coming across but I was held up by this lot . ’ |
| 8 | I was held still in it . |
| 9 | However , this morning Beth Christie was brighter than usual ; she planned to shop for the dinner party she was holding later in the week . |
| 10 | When she recovered she was holding on to the edge of the table for balance . |
| 11 | And then she was holding on to the branches , feeling where the Robemaker had hacked and sawn at them , knowing she must be hurting the Larch even more , and trying to be as gentle as possible . |
| 12 | She was holding on for dear life , leaning into him , lifting on tiptoe so that he could gather her close , hold her tightly in his arms , while his tongue slipped into her mouth , while his hand swept up her ribs and lightly cupped her breast … |
| 13 | She was holding on by a thread . |
| 14 | She had been friends with Annie long enough to know when she was holding back on her . |
| 15 | He was giving her orders : she was to hold on to the edge of the pool and breathe deeply in and out . |
| 16 | This was an idea she was to hold on to throughout the process . |
| 17 | She was most welcoming and wanted their children to have their friends in , she was a neighbourly woman , but if those children were still what she called ‘ hanging around ’ by the time dinner was ready and she was held up in the business of getting the evening meal dealt with , it put her out . |
| 18 | She was held down on the bed whilst a variety of sexual acts were performed on her . |
| 19 | It was holding on to the tree but I pulled it off . |
| 20 | 203 , the corporation , having for a number of years paid purchase tax on manufactured stationery , erroneously believing it to be due , sought to recover it when it was held not to be chargeable . |
| 21 | In Cigaro ( Glasgow ) Ltd. v. City of Glasgow District Licensing Board , 1983 S.L.T. 549 it was held not to be a breach of natural justice to hear only submissions and not to allow evidence to be led , where this was the practice of the licensing board . |
| 22 | The morning train from Sidney picked up milk from various farms for shipment to Victoria and on at least one occasion it was held up for two hours while cows , that had been turned into the bush the previous night to pick up what nourishment they could were searched for , rounded up , milked and the milk loaded for the trip to town . |
| 23 | It was held up by election uncertainties . ’ |
| 24 | For the last few years it was held up by 20 players of outstanding international standard and we did not realise that technically we were dying ’ . |
| 25 | It was held both by Avory J. and the Court of Appeal that the payment in terms of the unlawful condition was not voluntary having been made for the purpose of obtaining the licence and could therefore be recovered as in Morgan v. Palmer , 2 B. & C. 729 . |
| 26 | I used to work with an ex-BBC engineer who revelled in the fact that , in his day , Radio 3 , which was deemed by many hi-fi buffs as tonal nirvana , emanated from studios with ageing turntables and consoles , odd lengths of disparate signal cable were employed and much of it was held together with string and Sellotape . |
| 27 | There were holes in the elbows and I must admit it had got so tatty that it was held together with nappy pins . |
| 28 | It was held in with the present public excluded but now we seem to have a completely different situation . |
| 29 | As the fixture was in aid of disabled veterans of the Great War , it was held close to Armistice Day each subsequent year . |
| 30 | He was holding on to the hand of one of the passengers who was bleeding rather badly . |