Example sentences of "was hold [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , this morning Beth Christie was brighter than usual ; she planned to shop for the dinner party she was holding later in the week . |
| 2 | He was holding on to the hand of one of the passengers who was bleeding rather badly . |
| 3 | When she recovered she was holding on to the edge of the table for balance . |
| 4 | It was holding on to the tree but I pulled it off . |
| 5 | And then she was holding on to the branches , feeling where the Robemaker had hacked and sawn at them , knowing she must be hurting the Larch even more , and trying to be as gentle as possible . |
| 6 | She was holding on by a thread . |
| 7 | Mrs Sweet was holding out on the police . |
| 8 | Instead , he was holding out like a carrot a heart-stopping headlong plunge into a new dimension of existence . |
| 9 | She sensed that he was holding back with a massive effort , suppressing his own hunger with iron discipline . |
| 10 | The Brigadier , a little flushed with good wine , was holding forth about the qualities of modern officers . |
| 11 | The rain was holding off for a while and the streets were drying in patches . |
| 12 | He was giving her orders : she was to hold on to the edge of the pool and breathe deeply in and out . |
| 13 | The essence of doublethink was to hold absolutely to the given motive but also simultaneously to its contradiction : that is after all what dialectical thinking is all about . |
| 14 | The square ahead , Piazza Verziere , commemorates one of the city 's best fruit and vegetable markets which was held here in the nineteenth-century . |
| 15 | The festival was held outdoors for the first eighty years , but moved indoors after torrential rain caused the collapse of the stage as the congregation were singing The Heavens are Telling ! |
| 16 | A conference of northern local authorities was held soon after the January 1986 announcement of the Tunnel project in order to consider its likely impact on the region , and the North of England Regional Consortium has lobbied the government ever since for improved transport links . |
| 17 | The ant endeavoured to escape , but was held fast by the clammy juice at the points of the hairs , which was drawn out by its feet into fine threads . |
| 18 | That country was held fast in the grip of a most oppressive regime and there was never the remotest possibility that anyone could come . |
| 19 | Proper planning was held up for a time until the route of the M4 was decided , as an early outline brought it through Harpsden and over Peppard . |
| 20 | The arrival of the Italian soldiers was held up for a time while the Italian government bargained for an Italian to command the UN forces ( the commander is , as it happens , a Brazilian ) . |
| 21 | Then the funeral was held up for a few days , and we soon realised that the effect was indeed cosmetic and nothing more . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Highfield came back strongly and should have scored in front of the posts but lost possession their hooker was held up on the line , their only reward was a penalty from their captain Terry Dillon . |
| 24 | I was actually mugged on holiday er then years ago and I was held up with a gun and it was the most horrendous feeling |
| 25 | There was also a particular association of such patronage with Carolus Magnus — " senior Charles " who from young Charles 's earliest years was held up as a role-model for him . |
| 26 | Play was held up as the goalkeeper 's knee was strapped up . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | CHRONIC asthma sufferer Jeffrey Harrison was held up as an example of the alleged inadequacy of student loans and NHS funding by Labour yesterday . |
| 29 | When I changed buses there was just time to get the sweets and bananas — the bananas were very good today ; and on the other bus there was a nice driver who said that if I sat near the front he would let me off at the crossing if he was held up in the traffic , instead of my going on to the bus stop and having to walk back ; because of the rain . ’ |
| 30 | She was most welcoming and wanted their children to have their friends in , she was a neighbourly woman , but if those children were still what she called ‘ hanging around ’ by the time dinner was ready and she was held up in the business of getting the evening meal dealt with , it put her out . |