Example sentences of "hold captive by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said : ‘ About two weeks after we had been held captive by the Iraqis , one of the air crew told us that there were SAS soldiers on board the plane . |
| 2 | Major Gregg Donahue ( Marshall Thompson ) takes a Vietnamese guide to help him locate his younger brother , a doctor who is being held captive by the Viet Cong at an old French fort . |
| 3 | Foreign Minister David Levy stated after the meeting that the USA had been " held captive by the very coalition it [ had ] formed against Saddam Hussein " . |
| 4 | During building renovations in a Milan flat at the end of October , copies of letters were discovered written in 1978 by the then DC president , Aldo Moro , while he was being held captive by the Red Brigades before they murdered him [ see pp. 29053-55 ] . |
| 5 | ‘ I was imprisoned and held captive by the very forces I had so long sought to perfect and that I had honed and polished until they were stronger and more glittering than anything ever known at Tara . |
| 6 | She swayed helplessly against him , held captive by the spell of his hands and his hypnotically persuasive voice . |
| 7 | As are to play the Pied Piper , Bs the Mayor of Hamelin and Cs the parent of a child held captive by the Pied Piper . |