Example sentences of "hold up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She holds up the American education system as an answer to the supposed link between language and class mobility . |
| 2 | One holds up the east-west streets . |
| 3 | To help out , the second player holds up the mirror so that the first player can see his reflection . |
| 4 | She , too , holds up the spoon and tries to tempt me . |
| 5 | And no , I do n't think it holds up the action . |
| 6 | Early of Ely and Family ’ ( 1771 ) in which the richly clad Earl , the Countess and their two musical daughters sway elegantly in front of an idealised Greek temple set in their newly designed gardens while a small African boy dressed in a combination of Turkish and Indian costume holds up the Earl 's diadem , curiously peering round the Countess to look up at his owner . |
| 7 | Lucker holds up the keys . |
| 8 | She came in eighth on January 6 after encountering unfavourable winds and suffering a broken forestay — part of the rigging that holds up the mast — in common with other competitors . |
| 9 | Hold up the glass to such viewers , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , and let them see themselves in it . |
| 10 | Napoleon Bonaparte , Metternich , Napoleon III and Vittorio Emanuele II all visited the house , and each must have been impressed by the colossal Ionic columns that hold up the façade and hem in the doorway . |
| 11 | The ancient fords which hold up the water are dredged out , along with their water crowfoot . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ They add unfair pressure and hold up the game , with players being distracted waiting to see an incident shown again before they bowl the next ball . ’ |
| 13 | It looked like somewhere waiting for a film to happen , Jasper thought , like a Western on television where two gunmen will come out of the badlands and hold up the mailtrain on the Santa Fe railroad . |
| 14 | I cry , and I reach out and , lo and behold , I touch wood and I know that it 's one of the posts which hold up the catwalk . |
| 15 | ‘ go around and hold up the northern half of this wood . |
| 16 | You know the open topped buses where they go round they hold up the traffic . |
| 17 | I lost Granpa quite a bit of our weekly profit that way , until he taught me to say , ‘ Twopence change , Mrs Smith , ’ then hold up the coins for all to see before handing them over . |
| 18 | Her comments on interest rates had little impact on financial markets but they appeared to underscore the Government 's commitment to holding up the pound . |
| 19 | Ripe time Assuming Mr Lawson has achieved a respectable fall in inflation , the time then really would be ‘ ripe ’ for full membership of the European Monetary System , since this would tend to drive interest rates down while holding up the pound . |
| 20 | He started not only to print his addresses or charges but to review books of general interest ; to consider a book on diplomacy and war , and not to lose a chance of holding up the character of Asquith to admiration , or to contrast the laziness and drift of Stanley Baldwin as prime minister with the crusading fervour of a Gladstone . |
| 21 | I thought the great central arch of two tree trunks looked like our Blessed Lord 's arms holding up the whole Church . |
| 22 | ‘ You left a bottle o' poison last time , did n't you ? ’ he said , holding up the iodine bottle , his grey eyes shining like a puddle in the road . |
| 23 | Holding up the edge of the pillow with his left hand , Mungo reached under with his right to take out the striped pyjamas . |
| 24 | The lights in the ceiling came on without fuss and illuminated the ancient brick walls and the weathered old grey beams which crossed from side to side , holding up the planks of the floor above : holding up the planks , except where the hole was . |
| 25 | The lights in the ceiling came on without fuss and illuminated the ancient brick walls and the weathered old grey beams which crossed from side to side , holding up the planks of the floor above : holding up the planks , except where the hole was . |
| 26 | She was holding up the collar of her blouse and gradually twisting it . |
| 27 | With its Georgian frontage and those imposing pillars holding up the front porch , it still looked impressive . |
| 28 | A dispute with Telecom engineers is holding up the company 's first link in London , and Mercury 's first inter-city line — which should have been operating by now — will not open until next year . |
| 29 | INDUSTRIAL wrangling over a new type of small floppy disc for storing data is holding up the development of useful portable computers . |
| 30 | ‘ What 's holding up the cashless society ? ’ asked New Scientist on its front cover , signalling a feature on the electronic possibilities in paying for goods and services . |