Example sentences of "held [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Doctor hurried along the tunnel , Ace 's blaster held loosely in one hand , a little black box in the other . |
| 2 | They last won the trophy in 1989 at Dagenham , when they held on for 13 memorable minutes to beat Grays 3–2 and in 1986 the Clarets beat Billericay 3–0 in a two-legged final . |
| 3 | His widow Margaret held on for another 45 years , beset on all sides by warring local landowners who claimed parts of the island , as its boundaries grew ever-closer to the Holderness mainland . |
| 4 | Vauxhall held on to second spot with 21,679 sales ( down 6994 ) . |
| 5 | They rejected bananas and held on to buttoned coats . |
| 6 | The two held on to each other tightly . |
| 7 | All around them people sat on their boxes and held on to precious bundles , patiently waiting for whatever might happen next . |
| 8 | Nomura held on to top spot in the annual Eurobond underwriting rankings while other Japanese firms slipped ; Yamaichi dropped to tenth while London 's CSFB shot up to second place . |
| 9 | Watson held on to third place with a final 74 for a 296 total , with former England international Martin Foster of Worksop just a stroke behind after a closing 68 . |
| 10 | He walked back over the warm , moonlit meadows and paused before the inn , but held on to this resolution , the righteousness firing through him like brandy . |
| 11 | They held on to this fortress until 1264 , when it passed to the Habsburgs , who in turn lost it to the canton of Zurich in 1452 . |
| 12 | He remembered how the travellers and the seafarers who came to Tara had always told that at the centre of every whirlpool , at the heart of every tempest , is a great tranquillity , and he caught and held on to this thought . |
| 13 | She held on to twenty years of him . |
| 14 | Endill kept his eyes shut and held on with all his strength . |
| 15 | Jane held on with both hands , gazing ahead at Molly 's legs , counting every step , praying she would reach the top before the whole thing collapsed beneath their weight and they all fell , helpless , into the water below . |
| 16 | In Ayr , the second most marginal seat in the United Kingdom , Phil Gallie , the successor to George Younger , held on by 85 votes seeing off Labour who were thought certain to seize the seat . |
| 17 | Teeth clenched , she held on like grim death , determined not to embarrass Penry Vaughan with a fit of hysterics just because she was in a boat again . |
| 18 | 12.37 am , Plymouth Devonport : David Owen held the seat for Labour until defecting to the SDP in 1981 and he held on in 1983 and 1987 . |
| 19 | That meant 302 had gone to sea , including five Australians with a mast held together with self-tapping screws . |
| 20 | Masai Warrior Dance is more of the same ; intermeshed , slightly jarring reed interplay , but held together with insistent African drums . |
| 21 | It was a very old dark-green Hispano-Suiza , held together with beautiful leather straps like the ones my grandparents had on their steamer trunks . |
| 22 | In other words , a classical " solar system " atom under electromagnetic forces is nothing like the actual solar system held together by gravitational forces . |
| 23 | He returned to racing wearing a surgical boot with the ankle held together by four stainless steel screws and two wires . |
| 24 | It could do with a bit of script-editing but satellite sceptics expecting a botch-job held together by sticky-backed plastic will be pleasantly surprised . |
| 25 | Stonework most prone to acid deposition includes limestone and marble , while sandstone held together by calcareous cement is also susceptible to damage . |
| 26 | The diagonal hem of her pale-blue frock reached nearly up to her knees on one side , and her shoulders were bare , the flimsy bodice held only by narrow sequinned straps no wider than his shoelaces . |
| 27 | An extended dining-table was littered with papers held down by little pottery artefacts from ashtrays to small pitchers and there was a portable typewriter at one end . |
| 28 | The lavvu goes up , the canvas at the bottom held down by shovelled snow . |
| 29 | Limbs caught and held stiffly in awkward attitudes jerked into life as if an electric current had been applied to them . |
| 30 | These values , held usually with great sincerity , deserve examination because they may have unintended harmful implications . |