Example sentences of "[was/were] holding [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Head and shoulders above everyone else in the Guadalquivir suite of the Seville hotel where Iberia International Airlines were holding a promotional cocktail party . |
| 2 | GULLS WERE HOLDING A REVIVALIST MEETING ; they shrieked their affirmation from the cliff top and woke Elisabeth Danziger early with their evident enthusiasm . |
| 3 | 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 " . |
| 4 | Journalists reported that forces loyal to General Noriega were holding the northern border regions of Panama . |
| 5 | The back of the awesome figure caught in the dying rays of the flare was holding a kicking man high above his head , throwing him as they watched over the side and into the sea . |
| 6 | Mary was holding a tiny fawn , and it could n't have been more than a few days old . |
| 7 | In the picture my father was holding a portrait-sized photograph of his first wife , Eric 's mother , and she was the only one who was smiling . |
| 8 | He was holding a long canvas bag and a cardboard box . |
| 9 | She was holding a delicate spray of mimosa to her face , inhaling the heady scent . |
| 10 | She was holding a net curtain to one side with the gold-ringed fingers of one hand , while in the other hand she held to her mouth a long white ebony cigarette holder on which she drew constantly as she watched the visitor enter her neighbour 's house . |
| 11 | For just a few minutes out there I was holding a real live flesh-and-blood woman in my arms . ’ |
| 12 | The coins quietened the men 's agitation in the way that gold can , and Rincewind was amazed to find , half a minute later , that he was holding a little glass portrait of Twoflower wielding a huge notched sword and smiling as though all his dreams had come true . |
| 13 | He was holding a flat cap full of coins . |
| 14 | The boy was holding a magnifying glass over a postcard and writing on it in the tiniest hand . |
| 15 | Her mother was holding a small purse of kid leather , which she now untied to reveal a silver chain , upon which hung a medallion of the Blessed Virgin . |
| 16 | Mrs Virginia Bottomley , with whom half the Tory Party was secretly in love ( Edwina hoped the other half was in love with her ) , was holding a small court , flanked by her husband , Peter . |
| 17 | But a few weeks ago our youth rugby team could n't raise a side because the golf club was holding a junior scratch championship on the same day . |
| 18 | Claudia groaned and held her head , which was holding a big-band concert of its own . |
| 19 | He swung her into a wall while she was holding a nine-month-old baby , bruising its head . |
| 20 | He was holding a crumpled plastic carrier bag with some fashionable logo on it — presumably he 'd got it out of a dustbin . |
| 21 | Rosalba was holding a wet cloth on her face , and so Caterina found she was home again ; her mother was taking off her shoes and rubbing her feet . |
| 22 | Undaunted I commenced my own search and within minutes was holding a medieval buckle . |
| 23 | In between his teeth he was holding a huge knife . |
| 24 | When he returned he was holding a thin card in one hand . |
| 25 | He was holding a bent fork and scraping at a loose fibre of wood on the table-top . |
| 26 | She was holding a white slip-on shoe with a strapless back . |
| 27 | Then she saw he was holding a large stick in one hand . |
| 28 | It was impossible , from this distance , to see what he was wearing on his feet , but it seemed likely that he was one short of a full complement of shoes , because in his right hand he was holding a large , brown , elastic-sided boot . |
| 29 | As he watched , a supervisor carrying a big black bag began to move along the line of checkouts followed by a young assistant who was holding a large plastic container with a flap in the front like a letter box . |
| 30 | The switchboard on the ground floor of the Questura was manned by a chubby youth who was holding a large roll , turning it from one side to the other and studying it closely like a wrestler looking for a hold . |