Example sentences of "held up [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had heavy army trousers held up with a huge leather belt and a thick army shirt . |
| 2 | Cross-channel ferries held up by a bomb scare … . |
| 3 | His trousers , made of what looked like sacking , were chopped off at the knee , held up by a strap wound round his middle . |
| 4 | They had erected a little shelter , an old curtain spread across one corner of the balcony and held up by a clothes horse and a chair . |
| 5 | Mr French also cited Gloucester 's new courthouse , held up by a planning row between the city and county councils . |
| 6 | and then , not if you ca n't get , held up by a piece of string would it ? |
| 7 | Hands held up in a no-harm gesture , he continued to back away . |
| 8 | But no doubt there will still be the shouting , the rumours that spread through the peloton , the slow and then maddened driving by the directeur sportif 's car , the blackboard held up behind a motorbike with scrawled details of a breakaway . |