Example sentences of "was hold [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The back of the awesome figure caught in the dying rays of the flare was holding a kicking man high above his head , throwing him as they watched over the side and into the sea . |
| 2 | Mary was holding a tiny fawn , and it could n't have been more than a few days old . |
| 3 | In the picture my father was holding a portrait-sized photograph of his first wife , Eric 's mother , and she was the only one who was smiling . |
| 4 | He was holding a long canvas bag and a cardboard box . |
| 5 | She was holding a delicate spray of mimosa to her face , inhaling the heady scent . |
| 6 | She was holding a net curtain to one side with the gold-ringed fingers of one hand , while in the other hand she held to her mouth a long white ebony cigarette holder on which she drew constantly as she watched the visitor enter her neighbour 's house . |
| 7 | For just a few minutes out there I was holding a real live flesh-and-blood woman in my arms . ’ |
| 8 | The coins quietened the men 's agitation in the way that gold can , and Rincewind was amazed to find , half a minute later , that he was holding a little glass portrait of Twoflower wielding a huge notched sword and smiling as though all his dreams had come true . |
| 9 | He was holding a flat cap full of coins . |
| 10 | The boy was holding a magnifying glass over a postcard and writing on it in the tiniest hand . |
| 11 | Her mother was holding a small purse of kid leather , which she now untied to reveal a silver chain , upon which hung a medallion of the Blessed Virgin . |
| 12 | Mrs Virginia Bottomley , with whom half the Tory Party was secretly in love ( Edwina hoped the other half was in love with her ) , was holding a small court , flanked by her husband , Peter . |
| 13 | But a few weeks ago our youth rugby team could n't raise a side because the golf club was holding a junior scratch championship on the same day . |
| 14 | Claudia groaned and held her head , which was holding a big-band concert of its own . |
| 15 | He swung her into a wall while she was holding a nine-month-old baby , bruising its head . |
| 16 | He was holding a crumpled plastic carrier bag with some fashionable logo on it — presumably he 'd got it out of a dustbin . |
| 17 | Rosalba was holding a wet cloth on her face , and so Caterina found she was home again ; her mother was taking off her shoes and rubbing her feet . |
| 18 | Undaunted I commenced my own search and within minutes was holding a medieval buckle . |
| 19 | In between his teeth he was holding a huge knife . |
| 20 | When he returned he was holding a thin card in one hand . |
| 21 | He was holding a bent fork and scraping at a loose fibre of wood on the table-top . |
| 22 | She was holding a white slip-on shoe with a strapless back . |
| 23 | Then she saw he was holding a large stick in one hand . |
| 24 | It was impossible , from this distance , to see what he was wearing on his feet , but it seemed likely that he was one short of a full complement of shoes , because in his right hand he was holding a large , brown , elastic-sided boot . |
| 25 | As he watched , a supervisor carrying a big black bag began to move along the line of checkouts followed by a young assistant who was holding a large plastic container with a flap in the front like a letter box . |
| 26 | The switchboard on the ground floor of the Questura was manned by a chubby youth who was holding a large roll , turning it from one side to the other and studying it closely like a wrestler looking for a hold . |
| 27 | According to witnesses , Gyalpo was holding a Tibetan nationalist flag and marching in front of the demonstration as it progressed towards the Jokhang temple in central Lhasa . |
| 28 | He was holding the lighted match . |
| 29 | He was only gone a moment or two and when he returned he was holding the complete clasp . |
| 30 | Shelley had already gone to the patient and was holding the swollen ankle . |