Example sentences of "were hold [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The delegation left and we continued waiting until 6 p.m. when the news came through that the TUC were holding a press conference . |
| 2 | The boy crooked one arm and stuck out the other as if he were holding a gun . |
| 3 | His performance was intended as a celebration of that renaissance , and also of the prospects for world peace : for in Moscow Comrade Gorbachev and President Reagan were holding a summit meeting which promised to bear fruit in disarmament . |
| 4 | GULLS WERE HOLDING A REVIVALIST MEETING ; they shrieked their affirmation from the cliff top and woke Elisabeth Danziger early with their evident enthusiasm . |
| 5 | You were holding a banner . ’ |
| 6 | It was as if she were holding a much more exciting conversation inside her own head , Carrie decided . |
| 7 | A stream of urine splashed into the first glass , and as it filled Estelle guided the stream to the next glass as if she were holding a hose pipe . |
| 8 | Some youths in leather and day-glo socks were holding a meeting on the gloomy grass . |
| 9 | On May 27 police in Tamil Nadu said that they were holding a Sri Lankan Tamil woman for questioning in connection with the assassination . |
| 10 | The West Midlands Area Tories , to which organisation Arden belonged , were holding a dance to the music of the Majorettes , but David did not fancy being enveloped in clouds of blue tulle . |
| 11 | Head and shoulders above everyone else in the Guadalquivir suite of the Seville hotel where Iberia International Airlines were holding a promotional cocktail party . |
| 12 | If Miguel were holding a guitar instead of a medical bag , those arms would be very similar to Miguelito 's . |
| 13 | FIFA president Joao Havelange and general secretary Sepp Blatter were holding a crisis meeting at the time with UEFA officials and French federation president Jean Fournet-Fayard , who had been urgently summoned to Zurich . |
| 14 | Tanks now patrol the city centre , and instead of a celebration of their Independence Day , Armenian nationalists were holding a day of mourning |
| 15 | Huddled in one corner of the first-floor sun lounge , the remains of the committee of Literary Lionisers were holding an emergency meeting before facing their sundry charges . |
| 16 | According to Interior Minister Khayreh Alaleh Hared , 68 people had been arrested in the early hours of Jan. 9 , as they were holding an illegal meeting at a local cemetery ; the attack on the barracks had taken place 90 minutes later , and the attackers had escaped , but the two incidents formed part of an attempt to destroy " the sovereignty , existence and unity of Djibouti and its economy " . |
| 17 | Journalists reported that forces loyal to General Noriega were holding the northern border regions of Panama . |
| 18 | While the Tories were holding the line in the South , there was gloomier news in the North . |
| 19 | His rigorous moral choice against communism strengthened a sense of moral superiority among the Germans , who felt that they were holding the fort for the free world : |
| 20 | The men were holding the wheelbarrow above their heads . |
| 21 | In front of me , two teenage boys were carrying a floral tableau with the words ‘ God is Love ’ written in pink carnations , and little girls dressed like bridesmaids were holding the ribbons attached to it . |
| 22 | And locals who said that McSweeney had given birth to twins bounced Farrah up and down , never suspecting they were holding the most wanted baby in Britain . |
| 23 | After each flight we were picked up on little points , such as our positioning or the way we were holding the glove : too high or too low , the wrong angle . |
| 24 | The ankle muscles were holding the foot in an almost normal position — oblivious to the fact that the joints had nothing to rest on , that this was a classic case of a boy who would normally have ended up with a club foot . |
| 25 | Will be passed on , but in this instance they all need to be shown how to work it , yes , mhm , so that concerned me a little bit , apparently because they were holding the mike right up to their mouth and it was distorting terribly what 's going on up there |
| 26 | You 'd have to suspect that they were holding the wife to ransom so that her husband would give them access . ’ |
| 27 | Relations with South Africa deteriorated further [ see p. 39178 ] when on Dec. 1 the Angolan authorities announced that they were holding the crew of a South African plane which had made an emergency landing in Luena , Moxico province . |
| 28 | If it were to hold a known instrument off a bed casting then this would need to be declared ; ie " design of a bracket to support instrument off bed " . |
| 29 | Friction between Russia and Ukraine remained high , and reports that the two Presidents were to hold an extra day of bilateral negotiations after the Heads of State summit proved to be false . |
| 30 | Capital money was , however , always to be paid , not to the life tenant , but to trustees , who were to hold the money upon the same trusts as those upon which the land had been held . |