Example sentences of "held [prep] [noun] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The quote will then be held until noon the following banking day .
2 In the icy post-mortem , held in assembly the following day , the greatest crime we were condemned for was not the shouting and shrieking , but the fact that : ‘ One gal was sitting on her desk combing her hair ! ’
3 At its 1992 Conference held in Bologna the International Association for History and Computing accepted a proposal for a workshop to examine issues related to Electronic Information Resources .
4 The Coroner 's inquest had been held in Southwold the previous day and he had attended with Evelyn .
5 Scarlet despised her methods , as she knew Clarissa would despise hers , for Scarlet agitated herself only about the nutritional content of food and held in contempt the misplaced aestheticism of the lily-contoured table napkin .
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