Example sentences of "hold [adv prt] [prep] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newcastle manager Kevin Keegan tried to lure Beardsley back to his native North East earlier this season , but Kendall spurned their attempt for the player he holds up as an example to all professionals . |
| 2 | In a Los Angeles Times poll in mid-December people were asked what policy they would support if Iraq pulled out of most of Kuwait but held on to an oilfield and some other land . |
| 3 | Even the quest for fire , an element of nature taken for granted in the twentieth century , Whitaker felt could be held up as an artifact of wonder through the medium of Doctor Who . |
| 4 | Torn between passion and prudence , he falls in love with a spiteful little blonde , and , even as he is being taught in class how to recognise a typical Jew by his grotesque hooked nose , he is personally being held up as an example of the ideologically acceptable East Baltic race . |
| 5 | Former Tory Cabinet Minister , leading constitutional expert and friend of the Royal family Lord St John of Fawsley said last night the announcement ‘ must mean a change in the role of the Monarchy because they have for this century , and indeed the whole of the last one , been held up as an example of model family rectitude . |
| 6 | Its experience and its entire organisation and operation are frequently held up as an example to the rest of the world . |
| 7 | Held up as an example of how the regime 's cultural policies nurtured world-class artists , he had been firmly identified with the regime , holding the office of deputy chair of the Democratic Front ( the political umbrella movement incorporating the ruling communist Party of Labour ) . |
| 8 | Perhaps it 's the kind of example , in the same way that Westminster Council was held up as an example , and it 's now being criticized by the district auditor . |
| 9 | CHRONIC asthma sufferer Jeffrey Harrison was held up as an example of the alleged inadequacy of student loans and NHS funding by Labour yesterday . |
| 10 | Yet he is held up as an object of ridicule and loathing throughout the land . |
| 11 | The start of trading on the New York and American Stock Exchanges was held up for an hour yesterday after a fire , caused by an electrical fault , broke out in the building housing the exchanges ' computer systems , writes Mary Brasier in New York . |
| 12 | He explained the set-up ; Duncan and I were to pull an Aspel-laden rickshaw through the busy streets of Charing Cross — ignoring the irate rush-hour traffic , which was being held up by an army of floor assistants — to the steps of Charing Cross underground station . |
| 13 | As such it could well find itself held up as an example for later books to match themselves against . |
| 14 | She was a tall , muscly woman , of handsome countenance , her faded blonde hair held up with an array of jewelled combs . |
| 15 | After Nightmare in the Netherlands , it was great for me to be at a happy , good-tempered game where the sun shone brightly and we were n't held back for an hour by ugly policemen with argumentative dogs and bolshie attitudes . |