Example sentences of "hold up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He holds up a cricket bat . |
| 2 | Street Scene is the climax of this quest , an opera that speaks with the accents of Broadway , but which holds up a typically critical and compassionate mirror to the face of his adopted city . |
| 3 | He holds up a stick for all to see . |
| 4 | ( Holds up a limpet shell . ) |
| 5 | STEVE BAINES proudly holds up a medal he won as a player — and one he has collected as a referee . |
| 6 | STEVE BAINES proudly holds up a medal he won as a player — and one he has collected as a referee . |
| 7 | In Beverly Hills Cop , Eddie Murphy holds up a pack of Lucky Strikes and says ‘ These cigarettes are very popular with the children ’ ; and in ‘ Who Framed Roger Rabbit ? ’ detective Eddie Valiant is offered Lucky Strike cigarettes by a teenage boy and Camel cigarettes by the cartoon character Betty Boop ( Tobacco & Youth Reporter , Spring 1989 ) . |
| 8 | He holds up a wooden multi-coloured fish . |
| 9 | She holds up a sepia portrait of a turn of the century belle in a high-necked Russian blouse , standing before the backdrop of a painted Arcadia , with balustrades and beckoning groves . |
| 10 | She holds up a Waitrose bag . |
| 11 | ‘ But this girl , this woman , she 's a woman , Laura , when we make love she puts her ’ — he holds up a finger — ‘ straight up my asshole . |
| 12 | Doug holds up a jointed metallic blue tuna-lookalike . |
| 13 | Now you hold up a minute , Muvver . ’ |
| 14 | Hold up a finger at arm's-length , close one eye , and line your finger up with a picture or some other convenient object some way away . |
| 15 | I thought if you hold up a box of Roses chocolates , grin at it and say , ‘ Mmm … great chocolates ! ’ everybody quite correctly will despise you . |
| 16 | To test the monitor , hold up a plain sheet of paper next to the screen . |
| 17 | Riva hold up a hand . |
| 18 | Teachers should be aware , particularly of that aspect , I think , because phonic method is very often used in schools , by which I mean that the teacher wil hold up a flash card , and on it would be a pair of letters , say , suppose for example sh the teacher will hold up a large card with sh on it and will say to the class ‘ this is shuss ’ and the children will all say shuss whenever this card is held up — that 's fine , but the dyslexic pupil may not be seeing sh in the same way that the other children are . |
| 19 | Anything which makes rigging and de-rigging more difficult increases the risk of someone getting tired of holding up a wing-tip and so letting it droop or even drop . |
| 20 | Holding up a copy at a One Nation Forum fringe meeting , he said : ‘ We can do without that . |
| 21 | One of the New Forum posters shows a well-drawn man addressing a largely faceless crowd , one of whom is holding up a placard that reads ‘ Keep it short ’ . |
| 22 | Then , ready to go out , he puts that famous upper-teeth clamp on his bottom lip to show determination and circles the doctor holding up a cocked right fist . |
| 23 | Dot waited quietly till Gloria emerged from the jostling crowd holding up a fawn coat , triumphant like the A.R.P . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've got my sandwiches ’ he said holding up a soggy parcel . |
| 25 | She was scanning the windows of the ward above , and holding up a plastic shopping bag , through which I could discern two bottles of wine and several cartons of cakes and other goodies . |
| 26 | CONSERVATIVES in the European parliament are being blamed for holding up a plan to push through reductions of the lead content in petrol throughout the EEC . |
| 27 | Simon Cormack stared in amazement at the tall man near the door , his raincoat half-open , holding up a clothes-peg in his left hand . |
| 28 | One of them is holding up a sign saying ‘ Richard Arnold ’ . |
| 29 | But he stood by his decision to give Robert Ward , 20 , probation for holding up a solicitor 's office with a starting pistol . |
| 30 | From her elegant Park Avenue apartment come Picasso 's ‘ Femme dans un Fauteuil ’ of 1946 depicting Marie-Thérèse Walter ( est. $3.5–4.5 million ; £1.8–2.4 million ) and a magnificent Matisse , ‘ L'Asie ’ of 1946 , also currently included in the MoMA ‘ Matisse ’ show , depicting a three-quarter length female model in fur gown holding up a necklace , painted in reds , mauve , pink and gold , estimate on request . |