The phrase 'hold a sight' is not correct in written English.
To use the phrase correctly in a sentence, you would need to either use the phrasal verb 'hold sight of' or use a different phrase such as 'view' or 'observe'. For example, "I held sight of the beautiful scenery for a moment before I had to move on."
As it is, more than a few Internet handicappers are holding a place, sight unseen, for "Cold Mountain," and assuming that at least two of the others have a reasonable shot.
It just goes to show that not even Tolstoy at his most expansive can hold a candle to the sight of Ed Byrne from the Brantano adverts walking up a hill in a cagoule.
Christine Quinn's campaign sent a message to all young LGBT people that they can set their sights high and potentially hold a leadership position one day without compromising who they are.
At the next stop a man got on with his young son, who was holding a big blue bear, the sight of which nudged the first man from his monologue.
There was a lesbian couple nearby holding hands -- a sight that's becoming fairly common in larger southern cities.
Derbyshire hold the sight edge over Gloucestershire going into the final day's play at Cheltenham.
In our minds we still hold the sight of their datebooks and backpacks salvaged from some wreckage.
Musa Naiem, 35, from Sudan said the camp where he was held, in sight of a Bedouin village, was a fenced-in pen with three rooms covered by a cloth roof.
Because of Velázquez, these long-lost people will always be waiting for us in the Prado; they will never go away, as long as we hold them in sight.
An infant grasps the finger placed in her palm, and then the toy she sees, and then grasps at "the sound of the words grasp, take hold, &c., the sight of the nurse's hand, in that state, the idea of a hand, and particularly the child's own hand".
