Example sentences of "held [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Kitty reluctantly left the table only to return a moment later with her nose held high in the air . |
| 6 | Individual pots can be sealed in a plastic bag held clear of the foliage by wire hoops . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 : |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Argyll 's shares held firm on the news , up 1.5p at 364p . |
| 14 | Derby held firm until the seventy fifth minute when Andy Grey 's penalty gave Palace the lead . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | First , Fisher invited Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus whom some held responsible for the murder of British soldiers in the quasi-civil war in Cyprus . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 " . |
| 22 | 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 ] . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The images can be , but they 've also got an edge of grim humour — Heartfield and police president Zorgiebel ( below ) shows the artist 's response to the man held responsible by the Communists for the killing of May Day demonstrators in 1929 . |
| 25 | Smoothly , menacingly , he dropped into the zingi-tu'ii , the Kung Fu fighting stance , perfectly balanced on the balls of his feet , his hands held open in the double-axe position . |
| 26 | If these figures held steady through the late polling hours , Mr Clinton would remain the Democrats ' nominee-presumptive for the presidential election in November with an overwhelming lead in convention delegates . |
| 27 | Then he added , ‘ I did n't think they would , ’ and looked up into the muzzle of his own pistol held steady in the President 's hand . |
| 28 | The wage agreement produced some drift back to work in the following days , but the strike held steady in the Kuzbass , Donbass and Vorkuta . |
| 29 | The reason lies in the subjunctive conditionals and the possible worlds held relevant to the assessment of those conditionals as true or false . |
| 30 | An extinguished torch held upturned in the hand of Venus 's son , that troublesome archer Cupid , represents unrequited love — hence we are said to ‘ carry a torch ’ for someone . |