Example sentences of "held [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two men held each of the prisoners . |
| 2 | Trent held eight of the fresh thousand-dollar bills folded in the back pocket of his jeans ; the original three for the charter augmented by a further five in payment for his agreeing to the rendezvous . |
| 3 | José Antonio Ardanza ( PNV ) was once again Premier ( lendakari ) ; the PNV held eight of the 13 portfolios , EA three ( Education , Economy and Planning , and the new Justice ministry ) , and EE two ( Town Planning , Housing and Environment , and Labour and Social Security ) . |
| 4 | I watched him jog off , the head held high for the first twenty yards , to promote oxygenation , then tucked in low as he measured out the rhythm of his pace . |
| 5 | He was escorting three German prisoners in the direction of Brigade H.Q The Germans were doubling along , their hands held high in the air , a look of apprehension on their faces . |
| 6 | At this point it may — especially if it is a spotted skunk — perform a handstand , rearing on to its front legs with its hind legs held high in the air . |
| 7 | At the subsequent press conference held high in the stadium stand , Foster hushed even the most hardened of hacks by dedicating his gold medal to his mother who had died two years earlier , along with other members of his family , in a car crash . |
| 8 | Kitty reluctantly left the table only to return a moment later with her nose held high in the air . |
| 9 | Individual pots can be sealed in a plastic bag held clear of the foliage by wire hoops . |
| 10 | Egypt 's multiparty electoral system is dominated by the National Democratic Party ( NDP ) , which held 346 of the 448 elected seats in the People 's Assembly after the April 1987 elections ( see pp. 35224-25 ) . |
| 11 | Fergus had brought a leather case with him ; it held three of the silver cups and a big hip flask . |
| 12 | Lie your dog on his back and , holding one paw at at time , carefully trim away the excess hair with sharp , but round-ended scissor held flat against the pads . |
| 13 | The Class 40 , dressed in a never-never livery of rail blue with all yellow cabs , large BR logo and carrying a might-have-been number 40 445 , was facing south — held stationary by the unblinking red eye of a four-aspect colour light signal , newly erected at the Manchester end of Platform Three . |
| 14 | What held good for Stoke Poges held good for the Western Isles ; Kathleen Raine has given us a description , worthy of Thomas Gray , of the burial of an old Scotswoman : |
| 15 | In this example , the assumption held good in the test we submitted it to : the experience of unemployment was broadly similar for those who were unalienated as it was for those who were alienated ; we could feel confident about averaging the two d s . |
| 16 | Re-exporting of tropical and semi-tropical products had boomed in the later seventeenth century and although expansion was less rapid thereafter , it held firm through the first three-quarters of the eighteenth century . |
| 17 | Leavis held firm to the idea that any kind of responsible discussion of literature was a critical act , so that the academic was inescapably engaged in criticism when lecturing or conducting a seminar . |
| 18 | Argyll 's shares held firm on the news , up 1.5p at 364p . |
| 19 | Derby held firm until the seventy fifth minute when Andy Grey 's penalty gave Palace the lead . |
| 20 | The PCP , which had governed the province for the past 21 years , held 58 of the 83 seats in the legislature . |
| 21 | By October 1982 , P held 8,993 of the 46,000 shares of Q in issue , and was therefore treated as entitled to 8,993/46,000 of the interest in possession in the retained part by virtue of para 24(5) , Sch 5 , FA 1975 . |
| 22 | However , the long tail seemed to be encased in bundles of bony rods which could , like a conjuror 's segmented wand held erect by the pressure of the conjuror 's fingers at one end , lock it almost rigid . |
| 23 | First , Fisher invited Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus whom some held responsible for the murder of British soldiers in the quasi-civil war in Cyprus . |
| 24 | Under this , the EPA is responsible for cleaning up the most contaminated sites and then recovering the cost from the bodies held responsible for the contamination . |
| 25 | Emmanuel Mounier and the young collaborationist intellectuals of Jeune France were the first to propose the idea of a State culture to counter the empty capitalist hedonism , which they held responsible for the moral catastrophe of 1940 . |
| 26 | When he returned at the beginning of December 1340 Edward had immediately dismissed the home council , Robert Stratford , who was bishop of Chichester and chancellor , among them ; Archbishop Stratford , then held responsible for the home government 's failure , was ordered to Louvain as a hostage for the payment of the allies , while the dismissal and prosecution of other ministers and officials — mostly clerics — was set in motion . |
| 27 | Coming to the end of his account , he remembered the fate of the mason-overseer , Khaemhet , held responsible for the security of the prisoners deputed to him for the journey from the granite quarries to the Southern Capital . |
| 28 | Government troops killed over 40 Tamils whom they held responsible for the Aug. 6 incidents , after Wijeratne had declared that " we will show no mercy to these Tamil terrorists , criminals who do not deserve to live " . |
| 29 | Calling on the government to honour pledges of land and credit made to the contras before their demobilization in June [ see p. 37450 ] , they had also demanded the dismissal of former Sandinista leader Gen. Humberto Ortega Saavedra as C.-in-C. of the Armed Forces , and the resignation of Antonio Lacayo Oyanguren , Minister of the Presidency , and Carlos Hurtado Cabrera , Minister of the Interior , whom they held responsible for the October economic pact between the government and the opposition Sandinista-controlled unions [ see p. 37771 ] . |
| 30 | The German state prosecutor 's office announced on April 8 that tests conducted on the bones of a man who died in Brazil in 1979 confirmed that the body ( discovered in 1985 — see p. 33759 ) was that of Josef Mengele , the so-called " Angel of Death " held responsible for the deaths of 400,000 prisoners at the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Second World War . |