Example sentences of "[be] hold [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 26 July 1986 Father Lawrence Jenco was released after being held hostage for 18 months . |
| 2 | The Saudi Arabian ambassador to Yemen and an adviser were rescued by security sources on April 20 after being held hostage for 18 hours . |
| 3 | A large container for housing the spider ( see opposite , Making the cage ) ; two small containers , one with a lid , such as small jam jars or pickle jars — one is to catch the spiders in , the other is to hold water for the twigs ; a shallow container such as the plastic lid of a food pack , to hold the water supply ; some fresh leafy twigs ; some well-branched leafless twigs ; soil ; a metre or two of iron wire , about 1 mm diameter ; pieces of black cardboard ; Copydex or similar adhesive . |
| 4 | What parties they 'd been to when they were young , and Tom Reynard was holding court for his friends and their children . |
| 5 | William was held prisoner for nearly twenty-one hours and driven over two hundred miles away from his home for further questioning . |