Example sentences of "held [adv prt] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Third SERA Teacher Researcher Conference will be held on at Stirling University . |
| 2 | Leaving bridle line ‘ C ’ slack , pull on the connector ring ( sometimes a snap and swivel is fitted instead ) so that lines ‘ A ’ and ‘ B ’ are taut and the ring is held down at the level of the rear cross-spar . |
| 3 | Gooch , though , England 's loyal and reliable banker , went for his second modest score of the match , a choker of a dismissal in that he was held down at second slip at 3.43pm , three minutes into interval time . |
| 4 | This is being held in at the Irish Centre on York Road in Leeds and is an informal chance to chat with current members of that group . |
| 5 | A MUSICAL presentation called Paid On The Nail , created by two Merseyside church members , is being held in at Deyes High School , Maghull , on Thursday . |
| 6 | ‘ And saying , ’ said Wendy , ‘ that he 's been held up at a confinement when he 's forgotten all about somebody . ’ |
| 7 | In over ten years in her Government , I never heard a complaint that any paper was held up at Downing Street because the Prime Minister had been too pressed with work to get round to it . |
| 8 | At this point , Alf Jacobson entered the room to inform us that when he rang the Canadian Pacific Railway to check on the 9.15pm train by which Mr Murray and party were to travel to Regina , he was informed that the train was held up at Swift Current because of the blizzard , and that it would seem the CBC party might have to spend the night in Moose Jaw . |
| 9 | Too frequently I have made the mistake of buying fresh food once a week and either running out of organisational steam halfway through the week , so all the meals I had planned to cook have fallen by the wayside , or being held up at work or in some other way and grabbing fish and chips on the way home instead . |
| 10 | HEART-THROB singer Richard Marx was left shaking with fear after being held up at gunpoint by Chinese gangsters . |
| 11 | Like Mr Thompson they were held up at gunpoint by two men near their hotel . |
| 12 | ‘ No , I got held Up at the office . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I got held up at the office . ’ |
| 14 | And then we were held up at a place because some of our tanks e e the seventy ninth armoured division was er holding all the special tanks er which were flamethrowers and flails and all these sort of things . |
| 15 | and that 's it held up at picking . |
| 16 | The SDLP vote also held up at 21.9pc , a slight increase on the 1989 figure , giving them a tally of 127 seats . |
| 17 | ‘ I meant to get some food on my way home , but I got held up at college , ’ she explained , examining various other articles in the fridge with distaste . |
| 18 | K. I 've been held up at Paddington , John . |
| 19 | I start to apologize for being held up at work . |
| 20 | ‘ I got held up at the last minute . ’ |
| 21 | A car salesman is recovering after being held up at gunpoint by a man posing as a customer . |
| 22 | A petrol station assistant and her friend have been held up at knifepoint . |
| 23 | While I 'm on a journey I 'm always looking for cones and sometimes I 'm fortunate enough to be held up at traffic works . |
| 24 | They had held back at Milfield on the Till , biding their time , until their scouts came in with exact information of the movement of the Scots army . |