Sentence examples for had held onto for from inspiring English sources

It also prompted Ms. Robinson to give Mr. Fung a good-luck offering: a hot-pink rabbit's foot that she had held onto for a couple of years.

All three were in their 30's, and it was time to give up the fantasies of stardom that they had held onto for years.

With my own hands, I tore the last traces of Mikhail Avgustovich from the walls that he had held onto for half a century, and, no longer needed by anyone in this new, bleached, laundered, and disinfected world, he faded, probably forever, into the grass and leaves, into the chlorophyll, into the roots of the weeds, into the mute, unnamed and blissful kingdom of pharmacopoeia.

It also created a lock-in effect as California property values soared, creating a bigger gap in property taxes on newly-sold properties and ones that homeowners had held onto for a long time.

But at a lunch place down the street, George Halter angrily recalled an image he has held onto for 25 years -- the time he said Mr. Janklow, then the governor, berated him for saying "precursor" in a business meeting on a federal grant.

The hard work you put in is given back to you many times over when you are watching athletes at the peak of their fitness achieve the dreams they have held onto for years in a major competition or tournament.

Firms need to Rethink concepts they've held onto for years, they need to be able to spot the areas of risk, opportunity, and action in their value chains.

And now a Basquiat book is being planned by former girlfriend Alexis Adler, who is now a biologist, that will feature a trove of materials she has held onto for years.

In the chorus, the duo harmonizes with a more upbeat feel, matched in lyrics like, "Let me heal the wounds you've held onto for all these years / Break the cycle, break the chains / Love is louder than all your pain".

A lot of people are very disappointed to discover the comics they've held onto for years are not worth much money.

I had held onto her for a reason.