Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] hold [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Highfield came back strongly and should have scored in front of the posts but lost possession their hooker was held up on the line , their only reward was a penalty from their captain Terry Dillon . |
| 2 | These sentiments were held equally by the Dutch government , newly returned to The Hague . |
| 3 | Mahdi Mohammed loyalists were holding out in the northern fringes of the capital . |
| 4 | The BMW was held up by the set of traffic lights just before Brewer Street . |
| 5 | The festival was held outdoors for the first eighty years , but moved indoors after torrential rain caused the collapse of the stage as the congregation were singing The Heavens are Telling ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The Party 's leaders were held up to the public 's scrutiny ; it was not the Party 's fault that some , those with speech defects in particular , failed to receive the customary standing ovation after their speeches from an enthusiastic conference , or that others , standing some way up the ladder of promotion , were pinched for drunken driving . |
| 8 | Mrs Sweet was holding out on the police . |
| 9 | The essence of doublethink was to hold absolutely to the given motive but also simultaneously to its contradiction : that is after all what dialectical thinking is all about . |
| 10 | Legislative elections were held simultaneously with the first round of the presidential elections on April 8 , 1990 , when no party gained an overall majority [ see p. 37371 ] . |
| 11 | Her hands were held out to the sides , circling supplely , fingers gesturing elegantly . |
| 12 | He said that his men were held back by the heat of the fire , which stripped plaster from the walls , burnt floorboards and brought ceilings crashing down onto the ground floor of the semidetached house . |
| 13 | Walter Sherfield , who had started school the year before , remembers the time well , particularly during the long hot summer days when lessons were held out in the open , under the old oak trees . |
| 14 | The farm was held originally by the Coldstream Guards ( not the 1st Guards ) and the 3rd Guards ( Scots Guards ) . |
| 15 | Toman 's curling left wing corner was held up in the wind and Borthwick reacted first in a crowded six-yard box to poke the ball home . |
| 16 | Toman 's curling left wing corner was held up in the wind and Borthwick reacted first in a crowded six yard box to poke the ball home . |
| 17 | Fairs were held regularly with the markets but they were by no means profitable . |
| 18 | On the first day of the conference it was apparently agreed that Taiwan should be accepted as one of the Forum 's dialogue partners — those countries outside the South Pacific — currently the USA , UK , France , China , Canada , Japan and the European Communities — with which talks were held immediately after the conclusion of the heads of government conference . |
| 19 | That country was held fast in the grip of a most oppressive regime and there was never the remotest possibility that anyone could come . |
| 20 | Play was held up as the goalkeeper 's knee was strapped up . |
| 21 | A conference of northern local authorities was held soon after the January 1986 announcement of the Tunnel project in order to consider its likely impact on the region , and the North of England Regional Consortium has lobbied the government ever since for improved transport links . |
| 22 | The wedding took place at Newart Hill Church and afterwards , the reception was held nearby in The Newhouse Hotel . |
| 23 | Gooch , having exceeded the mighty Hammond 's Test aggregate , edged into his stumps ; Hick messed up an attempted pull against Waqar ; Smith was held brilliantly by the substitute fielder at third slip ( Latif also happens to be the deputy wicketkeeper ) ; and on the stroke of tea Stewart , having batted imperiously for four hours , fell disappointingly to a catch at cover off slow left-armer Mujtaba . |