Example sentences of "held [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its combination of sentimental piety and intimations of economic progress the description of the frontispiece to the Sheffield abolitionist volume Negro 's Friend ( 1826 ) held up the perfect image of success . |
| 2 | Ace held up the black lace provocatively by its straps , almost as if with humour he could defuse the situation between them . |
| 3 | I held up the intact bottle of rice wine I 'd finally recovered from the depths of my parka . |
| 4 | General Alexander and his troops carried out a magnificent fighting retreat and held up the Japanese advance until the rains broke , thus saving four months ' valuable time in which preparations could be made to repel the Japs if they attempted to invade India . |
| 5 | He held up the second finger . |
| 6 | When the selected pile alone remained , he switched on a powerful reading spotlamp above the table , took a jeweller 's loupe from his pocket , a pair of tweezers in his right hand , and held up the first stone to the light . |
| 7 | Dexter held up the mangled photograph frame . |
| 8 | It was almost concealed by the small columns which held up the campanile roof , merely a shinier darkness in the dark . |
| 9 | The same economic difficulties held up the last great station-building project in Canada . |
| 10 | He held up the buff folder . |
| 11 | This held up the whole meeting and finally it was decided to postpone the event for over an hour , so we all left the track . |
| 12 | Pulling it from the table and scattering pins across the floor , Constance held up the half-finished garment . |
| 13 | He held up the green ribbon . |
| 14 | In a footnote he held up the Greek Doric style as the model for a reformed modern architecture . |
| 15 | They held up the bright new diesel buses and , even worse , blocked the progress of private motorists in bulbous Austins and lumpen Humbers in canyon-like city thoroughfares . |
| 16 | Chaman held up the pink bedspread against her mouth to demonstrate what she meant . |
| 17 | He held up the third finger . |
| 18 | His last victory , by relieving the Turkish siege of Belgrade in 1456 , held up the Turkish advance for several generations . |
| 19 | Stephanie held up the heavy book again . |
| 20 | Whitten Brown held up the empty wrapper and shook his head . |
| 21 | Again he mirrored her meanings back , and he held up the distorted black lumps that were her errors of syntax . |
| 22 | He held up the soft peach wool jacket that Kate intended to wear , but there was a sudden rueful expression on his face as he met her eyes again . |
| 23 | Alternatively Aischines ' charge of ‘ bribery ’ could refer to vaguer but still politically valuable arrangements whereby the habitués of the ancient equivalent of the left-wing coffee-shop in a deme agreed to put forward no candidates in one year provided the right-wing coffee-shop held back the following year . |
| 24 | The Siege of Praag lasted throughout the spring and summer , during which time the brave defenders held back the greater part of the Chaos forces . |
| 25 | But the chances of Paris opening the decade with a momentous show were always dashed when the Germans held back the three most significant new cars still due this year — the new Audi 100 and BMW 3-series in a matter of weeks and the Mercedes S-Class by months . |
| 26 | The Prince and Princess of Wales came to a lonely hilltop in South Korea to honour the 900 men of the Gloucestershire Regiment who held back the Chinese Army pouring across the Imjin River in January 1951 . |
| 27 | By contrast Marx and Engels saw the proletariat 's mission as breaking down the restrictions of capitalism which held back the full development of technology ; and they rejected as utopian any form of transition to socialism which was not brought about by a genuine ( and almost certainly violent ) social revolution . |
| 28 | During a visit to Korea , he laid a wreath at a memorial to the men who held back the full might of the Chinese army at the battle of Imjin River . |
| 29 | Dickinson got down and held back the prickly branches while Killion blundered out , his lips triphammering away at the opening consonants of all the swear-words he knew . |
| 30 | Only the thought of the month they still had to work together contained her rage , held back the biting comments . |