Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] hold for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile two people who were held for questioning over the weekend have been released without charge . |
| 2 | The hostages , who were held for 444 days following the seizure of the US embassy in Tehran in September 1979 , were released within minutes of Reagan being sworn in as President on Jan. 21 , 1981 . |
| 3 | Four other men , who were held for questioning , have now been eliminated from police inquiries . |
| 4 | She was held for forty five minutes and at times , she says , she feared for her life . |
| 5 | After the game we were held for exactly one hour , then herded onto to a train which did n't move for 40 minutes . |
| 6 | The people arrested were taken to separate police stations across Merseyside where they were held for questioning . |
| 7 | The Thatcher administration was still new to the power it was to hold for the rest of the decade and a reader might reasonably expect to find something seminal in the report . |
| 8 | Then on 14 June 1985 TWA Flight 847 was hijacked and forced to land at Beirut where , before the world 's television cameras , it was held for 17 days . |
| 9 | But that Moorish Negress was so skilful in drawing the Turkish bow , that it was held for a marvel , and it is said that they called her in Arabic Nugueymat Turya , which is to say , the Star of the Archers . |
| 10 | That was the lure of Persia — the fantastic attractions it was held for Westerner ever since the seventeenth century , when traders , ambassadors and princes began to bring back exotic spices , silks and tales . |
| 11 | Sir John Wolfenden , the then vice-chancellor of Reading University , was chosen to be its Chairman , a job which he was to hold for the three years that the Committee took to produce its Report . |
| 12 | In July 1568 , he was appointed to the Commission of Sewers , along with Lord Cobham , a position he was to hold for many years and which was to make him a close friend of Lord Cobham until Cobham 's death . |
| 13 | One of his proudest moments came when he was appointed provost of the Royal Burgh of Selkirk , a position he was to hold for seven years , He was the town 's last official provost before regionalisation . |
| 14 | He was held for four hours and beaten with a truncheon . |
| 15 | Meanwhile he was held for seventeen months in prison in Oxford , where a debate was staged in which Cranmer and bishops Latimer and Ridley were pitted against selected scholars from Oxford and Cambridge . |
| 16 | His official car was intercepted in the centre of Vilnius , and he was taken in handcuffs to the OMON headquarters outside the city , where he was held for questioning for nearly 12 hours before being released . |