Example sentences of "held back the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Katherine held back the tears with difficulty . |
| 2 | As always , he was driven from St-Cloud in his black Rolls Royce Phantom ; as always , when his driver held back the door , and he climbed out , he looked up at Lassalle 's building , that tall dark tower , and then passed inside . |
| 3 | Luce almost added that someone had eavesdropped , but held back the accusation . |
| 4 | Darwin himself held back the views he had already formed until 1859 . |
| 5 | In Spain , the paradox of Europe is that it is both the whip to modernise Spain by destroying structures of corporatism , grandeur and clericalism that held back the country for centuries , and , at the same time , it demands enormous sacrifices paid by the poor as Solchaga and Gonzáles seek to achieve a capitalism and productivity equal to levels set in northern Europe . |
| 6 | It was on the tip of her tongue then to ask if he had managed to dispatch the papers to whoever they were destined for , but she held back the question before it got uttered . |
| 7 | She opened the door wide and held back the dog , whose tail was beating wildly on the wall behind it . |
| 8 | Earlier , less advanced forms were driven south by the expansion of superior types in Asia , Africa and America , but occasionally a barrier appeared that held back the advance and allowed the earlier forms to take refuge in an isolated southern area . |