Example sentences of "held [adv prt] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realized that this was the same place Brian and I had been held in for a week in May 1988 before going to the Pit . |
| 2 | With no airbrake the glider will float some distance even at low speed , and it must still be held off for a proper touchdown . |
| 3 | Proper planning was held up for a time until the route of the M4 was decided , as an early outline brought it through Harpsden and over Peppard . |
| 4 | The arrival of the Italian soldiers was held up for a time while the Italian government bargained for an Italian to command the UN forces ( the commander is , as it happens , a Brazilian ) . |
| 5 | Then the funeral was held up for a few days , and we soon realised that the effect was indeed cosmetic and nothing more . |
| 6 | We had the G A T talks held up for a lengthy period simply because the French wanted even more cash for agriculture and of course they got it and it 's rather silly when we 're spending two hundred and fifty million pounds a week on dumping and destroying food . |
| 7 | If I 'd been a union member I might have held out for a better offer or some redundancy money , but I was n't , so that was that . |
| 8 | I married Melanie , if I 'm honest , because she was the only one who 'd held out for a wedding-ring . ’ |
| 9 | MGM was not quite as happy with The Crowd ( 1928 ) , which was held back for a year and temporarily given a happy ending and which proved only to be as Kine Weekly predicted ‘ a sound box office success ’ rather than a runaway winner . |
| 10 | Held back for a long time by wild hitting , she has accepted in the last 12 months that there are occasions when she must suppress the urge to attack everything flat out . |
| 11 | I ended up going over the falls and being held under for a long time , and thinking there was no way I was going to come up before the next wave came across . |