Example sentences of "hold [adj] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Class 40 , dressed in a never-never livery of rail blue with all yellow cabs , large BR logo and carrying a might-have-been number 40 445 , was facing south — held stationary by the unblinking red eye of a four-aspect colour light signal , newly erected at the Manchester end of Platform Three . |
| 2 | 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 ] . |
| 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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |