Example sentences of "be hold [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're holding out for a wedding-ring , ’ he said flatly . |
| 2 | The move will be seen as a further step towards a possible post-election deal between Labour and the Liberal Democrats , who are holding out for a commitment to PR for the Commons as a pre-condition of backing a minority government . |
| 3 | Seeing Anthea each day would be a constant reminder , and neither woman could deny that the masks of civility each had been holding up to the other for months were now trampled underfoot . |
| 4 | East Belfast-based midfielder Keery ( 28 ) has been holding out for a better deal than the one on offer . |
| 5 | But he found that the job that awaited him there was several rungs lower than the job he had been holding down in the UK . |
| 6 | to be held up towards the moon on television |
| 7 | And you may also be held up on the A three six one at Wardington where there are some temporary traffic lights , that 's just north of Banbury . |
| 8 | The professionals use clapper-boards for this , but sheets of paper with the numbers written in felt-tip pen can be held up to the camera , and they serve just as well . |
| 9 | For another generation , this Covenant was to be held up as a model of political excellence within the Middle East , especially by the Western powers which gave it such approval but which did not have to suffer its consequences . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | However , the Associated Press news agency reported on Feb. 8 that the package could be held up in the European Parliament , due to opposition from the socialist group because of concerns about Syria 's human rights record . |
| 12 | The Prince Albert was not the only ship to be held up by a dockers ' strike : at the East India Docks , the Jolly George with a similar load of armaments for Poland , was prevented from sailing . |
| 13 | The document states that Richard Walter Jenkins shall ‘ absolutely renounce and abandon the use of the surname of the parent and shall bear the surname of the adopter and shall be held out to the world and in all respects treated as if he were in fact the child of the adopter ’ . |
| 14 | With no airbrake the glider will float some distance even at low speed , and it must still be held off for a proper touchdown . |
| 15 | The trailer brakes could be held off by a separate braking system when coupled to the tractor . |
| 16 | Long hair must be held back with an elastic band : clasps and metal grips are not allowed . |
| 17 | In addition , the economies of the most advanced capitalist nations would advance to a point where any further development of production would be held back by the crises of capitalism and by the desire to produce for profit rather than the general good . |
| 18 | They were disinclined to be held back by the deliberations of a slow moving and ponderous Commission . |
| 19 | At least that way there is no way you can be held back by the so-called ‘ glass ceiling ’ — the phrase coined in the United States to describe the invisible barriers that allow women to rise only so far in an organisation . |
| 20 | ‘ And the mortgagee having sworn he paid and expended above £120 in defending his mortgage at law , although he had but £60 costs allowed him there … shall not be held down to the taxation at law , but shall against the account be allowed all he laid out , or expended . |
| 21 | She shrieked when he went near her with the scissors , and had to be held down by the nurse so that he could take off about twelve inches of her golden curls . |
| 22 | ‘ Can you bear to be held down by the bonds of marriage ? |
| 23 | He said we were holding on to the ball , but we wanted it to come out . |
| 24 | You know , erm , you know what sort of gross salary and you know and there was , you were holding back in a way erm tt and why you did n't wan na discuss your hobbies you know where you were losing it |
| 25 | Mahdi Mohammed loyalists were holding out in the northern fringes of the capital . |
| 26 | If they were held on to the animal or plant would die . |
| 27 | shades they were made in Finland they were the paper pleated ones , er , most of them , no , no not most of them , a lot of them fitted er close up onto the ceiling where they 're intended for centre lights and were held up onto the ceiling with a little spring , erm , they also did some quite nice pleated paper shades , er at a time when you find that most electrical shops were , would have er the old type of erm what is it , imitation silk shades with fringes round them , er fringe at the top and fringe at the bottom and so on sort of thing , when the , when those was sort of old of age everywhere , it was just the same as it 'd been before the war , er it was , you know , quite right really to see these all in different colours , completely plain , but pleated shades but in just one particular colour each shade . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He wore a crisp white collarless shirt with the sleeves well rolled up and his baggy grey trousers were held up with a piece of string . |
| 30 | The Party 's leaders were held up to the public 's scrutiny ; it was not the Party 's fault that some , those with speech defects in particular , failed to receive the customary standing ovation after their speeches from an enthusiastic conference , or that others , standing some way up the ladder of promotion , were pinched for drunken driving . |