Example sentences of "and [be] hold [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not surprisingly , few farmers like this and are holding back from selling . |
| 2 | The restrictors fitted to the Stage One V8 are easily removed by removing the carbs and pulling the restrictor from the manifold They are in fact aluminium discs with three holes about ⅜″. diameter in each one and are held in by an expanding steel clip Select a suitable diameter tap and tap a thread with a smear of grease on the top to collect swarf , fit a long bolt and lever out with a pry bar Extremely obstinate ones may be split into three large bits with a small chisel and pulled out Clean the debris out with a vacuum cleaner A piece of l/2″ hose taped onto the suction pipe will reach most places in the manifold . |
| 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 | shades they were made in Finland they were the paper pleated ones , er , most of them , no , no not most of them , a lot of them fitted er close up onto the ceiling where they 're intended for centre lights and were held up onto the ceiling with a little spring , erm , they also did some quite nice pleated paper shades , er at a time when you find that most electrical shops were , would have er the old type of erm what is it , imitation silk shades with fringes round them , er fringe at the top and fringe at the bottom and so on sort of thing , when the , when those was sort of old of age everywhere , it was just the same as it 'd been before the war , er it was , you know , quite right really to see these all in different colours , completely plain , but pleated shades but in just one particular colour each shade . |
| 5 | They arrived at 1 pm. and were held up by Immigration Officers . |
| 6 | In striking contrast , modern industrial societies were characterized by heterogeneity , and were held together by a superior bonding principle which , following the centuries ' old analogy between the body-politic and the human organism , Durkheim chose to call ‘ organic solidarity ’ . |
| 7 | I ended up going over the falls and being held under for a long time , and thinking there was no way I was going to come up before the next wave came across . |
| 8 | Manager Malcolm Crosby wants to accept a £750,000 bid from Premier League Southampton — but his chairman Bob Murray vetoed the move and is holding out for £1 million . |
| 9 | The divider is placed widthways inside the tank and is held firmly in position at either end by using divider grips to which magnets at attached — four magnets on the outside and four inside the tank . |
| 10 | Equally important for vulnerable areas is the availability of safety glass — toughened or laminated : toughened glass — resists some impact , and shatters into harmless fragments when broken ; laminated glass is much more difficult to break , and is held together by clear plastic film between the layers of glass , so wo n't disintegrate . |
| 11 | As long as it has a cover and is held together by staples , that 's alright with you . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |