Example sentences of "hold they up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | if you hold them up to the light then you see them |
| 2 | He was wearing an apron which made him look like a housewife , and tinkering with glass eyes , taking them out of a box and holding them up to the empty sockets of the dead bird , trying to find a matching pair that fitted . |
| 3 | Then , after carefully taking off his heavy rings , he picked each of the tiles up in turn , holding them up by the extreme edge . |
| 4 | He was polishing glasses and he held them up to the light to check them and thereby seemed to be ignoring Maidstone completely . |
| 5 | I pretended to find a smudge on the glasses , rinsed them , dried them and held them up to the light . |
| 6 | SCRIBBLED swear words on pillows and held them up to the cabin crew members demonstrating emergency procedures . |
| 7 | They thought it was normal for Lucy ( they had never called her Mummy ) to fly from room to room looking for her watch , keys , diary , gloves , scarf , and blow a kiss to them from the garden path as the taxi-driver carried her cello out to the car , while Nissy held them up to the window to wave . |