Example sentences of "[pron] held " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 2 | I held the door open for him . |
| 3 | But I held back . |
| 4 | Fox red , moonbeam silver , I held the precious strands like a pilgrim sips water from a miraculous spring . |
| 5 | I held on to her and called for help . ’ |
| 6 | From the book I held on my lap ! |
| 7 | Before I visited Small 's farm , I held the view that shooting foxes was always both odious and wrong . |
| 8 | ‘ The first time I held those keys , I put them in my mouth and felt my bones had turned to gold , ’ she announces . |
| 9 | Edward knew he was being pampered and , in his letters to Helen about his friendship with Gwili 's sister , he confessed that ‘ in fact it was partly you that I saw when I held her : I hope I shall never forget her ; then I shall feel that it is possible to love another even though I am all and ever yours , little one . |
| 10 | ‘ I held it and it was biting my lip and kissing my face … ‘ |
| 11 | But again I held myself warily at a certain distance , not daring to make contact with him for fear of falling into the kind of trap Dana had prepared for me . |
| 12 | I held back a little before leaving them in her care , because as well as the hens there were eleven chicks ; she was a person full of goodwill and theories , but not practical . |
| 13 | As I held it in my hand it all came back to me . |
| 14 | ‘ Only a rose — ’ I began as I held out my offering to my husband and I was just about to start on the second line when a Yorkshire pudding with onion gravy flew past my head and stuck with a plop on the ceiling . |
| 15 | Otley and I held on to him while Nigel searched for a large piece of wood to haul him out with , and in the meantime we had a close-up of the lush vegetation of the riverside : buttercups , forget-me-nots , dog roses and honeysuckle and the shy little water avens modestly hiding its peach-coloured face . |
| 16 | Suddenly amused , I held the stiff door open for him and bowed languidly from the waist with an exquisite fin-de-siècle sarcasm , a little flourish of an unquenched spirit . |
| 17 | I held my breath , terrified that he might wake up . |
| 18 | With my own nose barely above water I held him with his head just higher than mine , but he still was n't breathing . |
| 19 | I held it out to him from the pouch . |
| 20 | As I held him , he stopped breathing and died in my arms . ’ |
| 21 | He was petrified with fear as I held my knife in front of him . |
| 22 | Then from 802–811 the usurper Nicephorus I held the throne . |
| 23 | He stopped then and after a pause said deliberately , ‘ Even if I held that point of view . ’ |
| 24 | I held my son Hassan who was 40 days old and the small children carried the other babies . |
| 25 | Briefly I held its glow through half shut eyes , felt its warmth concentrate on my upturned face . |
| 26 | I held my ticket tightly to me and smiled at the thought . |
| 27 | I held his arm tightly as we ran . |
| 28 | I later read a book on astrology which told your former lives , and I learned that 2000 years ago I held an important post as a male . |
| 29 | I held my breath and waited for that savage tug ; and waited , and waited , and waited . |
| 30 | I dared not turn round now to look for a vehicle , but I held my breath and listened for one — there was only the sound of my rubber soles on the macadam and the noise of wind . |