Example sentences of "who hold [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judge Lee spoke out at Hereford Crown Court as he took pity on jobless Robert Ward , 20 , who held up a solicitor 's office in Ross-on-Wye . |
| 2 | Absolutely , and you will find when we look on the video the number of people who held up a piece of paper if you hold things up and I 'm holding this now because I 'm about to write but if if you stand here and hold a piece of paper then it 's very difficult to make symmetrical palm gestures , open palm gestures . |
| 3 | Police are hunting raiders who held up a lorry driver at gun-point . |
| 4 | Your obituary notice today , recording the death of Mary , Duchess of Buccleuch , says she will be remembered as an illustrious , aristocratic character who held up a Royal canopy . |
| 5 | Twenty-five years ago , during a period of full employment , employers may sometimes have been right to assume that those who were unemployed or redundant were less effective than those who held down a job . |