Example sentences of "hold up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She holds up a sepia portrait of a turn of the century belle in a high-necked Russian blouse , standing before the backdrop of a painted Arcadia , with balustrades and beckoning groves . |
| 2 | He holds up a stick for all to see . |
| 3 | He holds up a cricket bat . |
| 4 | In Beverly Hills Cop , Eddie Murphy holds up a pack of Lucky Strikes and says ‘ These cigarettes are very popular with the children ’ ; and in ‘ Who Framed Roger Rabbit ? ’ detective Eddie Valiant is offered Lucky Strike cigarettes by a teenage boy and Camel cigarettes by the cartoon character Betty Boop ( Tobacco & Youth Reporter , Spring 1989 ) . |
| 5 | ( Holds up a limpet shell . ) |
| 6 | STEVE BAINES proudly holds up a medal he won as a player — and one he has collected as a referee . |
| 7 | STEVE BAINES proudly holds up a medal he won as a player — and one he has collected as a referee . |
| 8 | She holds up a Waitrose bag . |
| 9 | ‘ But this girl , this woman , she 's a woman , Laura , when we make love she puts her ’ — he holds up a finger — ‘ straight up my asshole . |
| 10 | She , too , holds up the spoon and tries to tempt me . |
| 11 | Early of Ely and Family ’ ( 1771 ) in which the richly clad Earl , the Countess and their two musical daughters sway elegantly in front of an idealised Greek temple set in their newly designed gardens while a small African boy dressed in a combination of Turkish and Indian costume holds up the Earl 's diadem , curiously peering round the Countess to look up at his owner . |
| 12 | To help out , the second player holds up the mirror so that the first player can see his reflection . |
| 13 | Lucker holds up the keys . |
| 14 | And no , I do n't think it holds up the action . |
| 15 | She came in eighth on January 6 after encountering unfavourable winds and suffering a broken forestay — part of the rigging that holds up the mast — in common with other competitors . |
| 16 | One holds up the east-west streets . |
| 17 | Teachers should be aware , particularly of that aspect , I think , because phonic method is very often used in schools , by which I mean that the teacher wil hold up a flash card , and on it would be a pair of letters , say , suppose for example sh the teacher will hold up a large card with sh on it and will say to the class ‘ this is shuss ’ and the children will all say shuss whenever this card is held up — that 's fine , but the dyslexic pupil may not be seeing sh in the same way that the other children are . |
| 18 | Now you hold up a minute , Muvver . ’ |
| 19 | Riva hold up a hand . |
| 20 | Hold up a finger at arm's-length , close one eye , and line your finger up with a picture or some other convenient object some way away . |
| 21 | I thought if you hold up a box of Roses chocolates , grin at it and say , ‘ Mmm … great chocolates ! ’ everybody quite correctly will despise you . |
| 22 | I lost Granpa quite a bit of our weekly profit that way , until he taught me to say , ‘ Twopence change , Mrs Smith , ’ then hold up the coins for all to see before handing them over . |
| 23 | Napoleon Bonaparte , Metternich , Napoleon III and Vittorio Emanuele II all visited the house , and each must have been impressed by the colossal Ionic columns that hold up the façade and hem in the doorway . |
| 24 | The ancient fords which hold up the water are dredged out , along with their water crowfoot . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ They add unfair pressure and hold up the game , with players being distracted waiting to see an incident shown again before they bowl the next ball . ’ |
| 26 | You know the open topped buses where they go round they hold up the traffic . |
| 27 | It looked like somewhere waiting for a film to happen , Jasper thought , like a Western on television where two gunmen will come out of the badlands and hold up the mailtrain on the Santa Fe railroad . |
| 28 | Hold up the glass to such viewers , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , and let them see themselves in it . |
| 29 | I cry , and I reach out and , lo and behold , I touch wood and I know that it 's one of the posts which hold up the catwalk . |
| 30 | I do n't offer you these for twopence , ’ my Granpa would shout , holding up a cabbage in both hands , ‘ I do n't offer 'em for a penny , not even a ha'penny . |