Example sentences of "held [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At my first event in Fort Worth , I had held on to the few people I knew as though for dear life , terrified at the thought of being stranded in this great wilderness . |
| 2 | ‘ The Renegades ’ from Dundalk certainly held on to the very end . |
| 3 | The longer that socialist parties held on to the old orthodoxies , the worse they have suffered . |
| 4 | But he would not let her , her stubborn sailor , he held on to her as the walls held on to the moving air within her house . |
| 5 | It was held in with the present public excluded but now we seem to have a completely different situation . |
| 6 | This is being held in at the Irish Centre on York Road in Leeds and is an informal chance to chat with current members of that group . |
| 7 | He says that the fire is being held in by the collapsed roof , they want to let air get to it so it will burn itself out . |
| 8 | Although she had never read any of his books , she was well aware of the high regard he was held in in the literary world . |
| 9 | It is the first time since 1987 that the race has been held over onto the standby day . |
| 10 | Negotiations for an estimated £1,500 million ( approximately equivalent to $2,700 million ) arms sale from the United Kingdom agreed in September 1988 [ see p. 36558 ] were initially held up following the Malaysian government 's request for extra landing rights at London 's Heathrow airport for the Malaysian Airline System , to which the UK government eventually acceded in March 1989 , leaving the way open for individual contracts to be signed . |
| 11 | The paper draws on a model which , while not held up as the definitive approach , could nevertheless serve as a working document for schools wrestling with the realities of moving towards an integrated structure . |
| 12 | Emergency grain deliveries from Syria and the USA were reportedly held up on the Turkish border . |
| 13 | ‘ I got held up at the last minute . ’ |
| 14 | The British troops were powerless to stop last night 's shootings after the convoy was held up near the Bosnian town of Novi Travnik by a crowd of women and children . |
| 15 | The measure had been approved by the lower chamber on Dec. 1 , but had been held up in the upper house where the LDP lacked an overall majority . |
| 16 | However , the Associated Press news agency reported on Feb. 8 that the package could be held up in the European Parliament , due to opposition from the socialist group because of concerns about Syria 's human rights record . |
| 17 | From his point of view , Modernism as a sub-species of romantic anti-capitalism is one partial moment in the rejection of the consequences of Enlightenment properly understood : understood , that is , in terms of a Marxism which is itself held out as the genuine heir to the Enlightenment narrative of emancipation and its romantic critique . |
| 18 | She said that while the carrot of jobs was being held out to the local community , local people would only be used for the most menial of tasks . |
| 19 | The commandos , who belong to a 55-strong group of US military advisers in El Salvador , had held out on the sixth floor of the annexe during the siege .. |
| 20 | Two of the government 's most important objectives are to reduce the proportion of the nation 's wealth consumed by the public sector and to reduce the extent to which individuals are held back by the public sector … |
| 21 | The molecules are consequently held back in the liquid phase and the vapour pressure is lower . |