Example sentences of "held [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the men , however , easily held down the exciseman while the others made off with the booty . |
| 2 | Aged only twenty-four he had held down the post of KGB officer attached to the 502nd Guards Armoured Division stationed at Magdeburg in the German Democratic Republic . |
| 3 | Joaquín Villalobos , 41 , a senior FMLN commander , made an historic appearance on June 17 before the US House of Representatives commission on hemispheric affairs to help explain the obstacles which had held up the peace process . |
| 4 | Other practices that once held up the flow of the dance were the continual closing in 5th position before a new step and the continual moving of the arms through 1st position at every change of weight or during a ports de bras . |
| 5 | Why had they held up the train ? |
| 6 | Before the interventions I was discussing the legality of existing measures and whether that had held up the introduction of traffic-calming measures . |
| 7 | Some writers on cyclical theories explicitly held out the hope that , although the world was in decline , the wheel would turn again so that eventually another Golden Age would repeat the idyllic conditions of the remote past . |
| 8 | It saw little more than arguments over who had done most to break the 1975 Final Act ; but the fact that it continued to meet held out the hope of more fruitful conversations in future . |
| 9 | It has sometimes held out the promise of release from grinding poverty ; or , for the moderately well-off , the prospect of a fairly agreeable way of life . |
| 10 | Science has held out the promise of giving the answer to ‘ life , the universe and everything ’ ever since ancient Greeks like Aristotle pondered on whether the earth was round or flat . |
| 11 | As we saw earlier , the period which marks the emergence of Consumers ' Co-operation as virtually the sole objective of the Movement , and its rejection of authentic Producers ' Co-operation , coincides with Hobsbawm 's Age of Capital , that period which marked the phenomenal growth of a global economy of industrial capitalism and so held out the prospect of unlimited and unfailing progress — and nowhere more than in Britain which held a de facto international monopoly in trade in manufactures . |
| 12 | As it was , de Lattre constantly held out the prospect of Chinese intervention , apparently believing it himself and certainly capitalizing on it in the US . |
| 13 | Revocation by the principal , his death , and in some cases his insanity , put an end to the agent 's authority , though in general a revocation will be inoperative as against those to whom the principal has held out the agent as having authority , and who have no notice of the revocation . |
| 14 | This has held back the development of voice operation . |
| 15 | In the absence of deep-rooted democratic institutions which could have held back the force of aggressive nationalism , local groups took the form of mere channels through which the idea of the nation as an integrated family could be reproduced . |
| 16 | Senior officers may or may not have been involved , but they certainly made public their opposition to party politicians who had held back the growth of military expenditure in budget balancing financial policies . |
| 17 | Crushed against him , Folly could no more have resisted than she could have held back the tides . |
| 18 | Worse still , if the stick is being held back the aircraft may bounce off the ground into an even more nose-high attitude and at an even lower speed . |