Example sentences of "hold [adv prt] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Don Johnson holds on to a chic Melanie Griffith ( above ) |
| 2 | Then there is the decay of the tree which sometimes holds on to a little bit of life well past when it should die completely . |
| 3 | Even Baumrind ( 1982 ) , supporting Gilligan 's different voice hypothesis against what she sees as the traditionalism of the psychology of androgyny , holds on to the traditional framework of Jungian psychology in order to do this , and later ( 1986 ) , reinterprets the hypothesis in a humanist and spiritual framework , which is not differentiated by gender . |
| 4 | Even if Hanson holds on to the British end of the ARC operation , it still has a long list of ConsGold assets to offload including : |
| 5 | hold on to every difficult breath |
| 6 | hold on to a finished thing ? |
| 7 | Daisy had brought her sketch pad , but found it difficult to capture the action and hold on to a straining Ethel . |
| 8 | He accepts then the necessity to permit the destruction of some forms of life , while at the same time holding on to a firm belief in the essential unity of all life and the principle of non-violence . |
| 9 | In the legend of Theseus , in Greek mythology , he prevented himself from getting lost in the Cretan labyrinth by holding on to a silken thread . |
| 10 | Holding on to the Familiar |
| 11 | Note the tension produced by holding on to the passing note of A♯ in bars 12 and 16 , and the ‘ heavy ’ sound of the minor 3rd ( G natural ) against the E7 chord in bar 18 , anticipating the ♭7th of the A7 to follow . |
| 12 | She cried aloud in joyous elation , her body still on fire , holding on to the magical moment as long as she could . |
| 13 | That 's if the woman ever prays , Isabel reflected , holding on to the random thought to steady her shaky nerves . |
| 14 | Le Saux , Clarke and Wise all went within inches of scoring while West Ham threatened only once , Beasant holding on to an unexpected volley from Foster . |
| 15 | Seeing Anthea each day would be a constant reminder , and neither woman could deny that the masks of civility each had been holding up to the other for months were now trampled underfoot . |
| 16 | Sachin Tendulkar moved quickly on to 19 at which stage the Indian was twice put down , first by Mark Nicholas at short cover and then by David Gower who could not hold on to a hot left-handed chance at second slip , the unlucky bowler on both occasions being Connor . |
| 17 | Does it hold on to the exclusive for its major shareholders or go with its journalistic impulses ? |
| 18 | Yet we must hold on to the basic idea that science discovers the truth of how the world works . |
| 19 | HTV 's advertising revenue rose 11.8 per cent to £101.8m , and the group managed to hold on to a creditable market share of 6.4 per cent as advertising has been sucked to South-east England . |
| 20 | Whatever the inner pressures within us to hold on to a prejudicial attitude , when a Christian maintains a prejudice and fails to aim for its resolution , the problem may well be a conflict with God 's truth , of actually resisting God 's will . |
| 21 | British Coal insists that is main aim is to hold on to the three-year contracts with the two electricity generators , which will be renegotiated in March next year . |
| 22 | A couple of miles down the road at London Irish they still want to hold on to the Irish connection , even if that leads to qualification by reading The Irish Times . |
| 23 | She tried to hold on to the heady rapture that was sweeping her along like a river in flood . |
| 24 | Ultimately , de Gaulle 's attempt to hold on to the symbolic status bestowed by 18 June and the war proved his undoing . |
| 25 | I was going on with it , all the bumps were okay but when I was actually inside the building again I hung on to GrandPat to get to the steps but my hand slipped so I was going round with the current so I tried to hold on to the orange thing that they had put there but I slipped off that and I kept on going round and the lifeguard gave erm me and somebody else a hoop and we both grabbed onto it |
| 26 | Against the implacable opposition of its lord , Aylesbury failed utterly to hold on to the corporate status granted it in 1554 . |
| 27 | But he added : ‘ Everybody recognises that the Government has to hold on to an existing policy until the replacement is ready to put in place , and clearly the Secretary of State has to hold to his policy until an alternative has been agreed . ’ |
| 28 | Three wickets had done down in four balls with the score 277 , and had Kapil Dev at backward square leg held on to a straightforward catch offered by Healy off Tendulkar , India might have taken charge . |
| 29 | East Midlands Electricity jumped from 237p to 305p before settling at 276p , while London Electricity held on to a 53-point rise to 306p . |
| 30 | ‘ The Renegades ’ from Dundalk certainly held on to the very end . |