Example sentences of "[noun] held up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Travis held up the Thermos and Paige nodded , proffering her cup , cradling it in her hands a while to savour the warmth and aroma . |
| 2 | Rex held up the crud 's wrist . |
| 3 | The question was left open in Davies v Flackett [ 1973 ] RTR 8 , where the accused drove off without paying from a car park while a stranger held up the barrier . |
| 4 | Cornelius held up the object . |
| 5 | Loretta held up the tickets . |
| 6 | Oliver held up the bottom of the pocket with one hand , as he had seen the Dodger hold it , and pulled the handkerchief lightly out of it with the other . |
| 7 | Tuppe held up the photograph . |
| 8 | Belinda held up the box of tissues . |
| 9 | Lorton held up the key which Fred had got for him . |
| 10 | Morse held up the photograph of Theodore Kemp which he had just removed from the living room . |
| 11 | Under the progressive system of construction it was , however , impossible to do this , and with a very few exceptions a shortage of any one part held up the whole of the line . |
| 12 | It is hardly an exaggeration to say that by delaying tactics the Home Office held up the legislation by more than twenty years . |
| 13 | Thirty years ago this week a gang of audacious , daring robbers held up the London to Glasgow mail train and made off with over two and a half million pounds . |