Example sentences of "held [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That day he had held on in a photo from Forever Diamonds , on similar ground to that he will encounter tomorrow . |
| 2 | He was in rumpled pyjamas , the trousers held together with a safety pin , but he had shaved and looked alert and cheerful . |
| 3 | This whole cultural ensemble was held together in a manner which bore a striking resemblance to ways of dealing with statism and socialism which have been considered above . |
| 4 | It 's a frustrating exercise to wander backwards and forwards through a full-sized abstract , its plans and pages held together by a thread or a rusty pin , pursuing some trivial and tedious point . |
| 5 | Inside is a thick sheaf of dog-eared papers , held together by a Treasury tag in the standard Civil Service manner . |
| 6 | He had an artificial jaw held together by a gold armature , and his twisted smile revealed two solid rows of gold teeth . |
| 7 | Their bold melodies and huge , happy harmonies are held together by a crisp , springy backbeat , with the simple songs benefiting from the uncluttered arrangements and straightforward treatment . |
| 8 | We can imagine the formation of such a chemical bond as requiring that a spring be compressed to bring the substances close to one another , at which point they are held together by a catch , as the jack is held in a jack-in-the-box . |
| 9 | Open sprung mattresses are generally cheaper buys with the coil springs held together within a framework of wire . |
| 10 | Suddenly she flung out her hands towards the window and her face up so that the hood fell back from her head and the cloak streamed behind , held only by a brooch at her throat . |
| 11 | Greeks found these attitudes hard to understand ; accustomed to connect one-man rule with harsh policing , they imagined that the Persian Empire must have been held down by a system of institutionalized controls — garrisons and garrison-commanders — and touring royal armies and officials , King 's Eyes and King 's Ears , and so on ( Xen . |
| 12 | A wreath of artificial poppies has been held down by a brick . |
| 13 | I realized that this was the same place Brian and I had been held in for a week in May 1988 before going to the Pit . |
| 14 | A scheme is to be implemented whereby the blooms will be held offshore by a series of floating barriers . |
| 15 | The elections had been held early as a result of a crisis which had arisen following a scandal over school catering , leading in July to the resignation of the DC mayor , Pietro Giubilo . |
| 16 | Mozart , in contrast , is held up as a kind of plaster saint , a spiritual being who lived through his music , pausing only for the occasional game of billiards . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In Poland , the interwar second republic and its strong-arm leader , Marshal Jozef Pilsudski , is today held up as a model of Polish democracy . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Torn between passion and prudence , he falls in love with a spiteful little blonde , and , even as he is being taught in class how to recognise a typical Jew by his grotesque hooked nose , he is personally being held up as an example of the ideologically acceptable East Baltic race . |
| 22 | Former Tory Cabinet Minister , leading constitutional expert and friend of the Royal family Lord St John of Fawsley said last night the announcement ‘ must mean a change in the role of the Monarchy because they have for this century , and indeed the whole of the last one , been held up as an example of model family rectitude . |
| 23 | Its experience and its entire organisation and operation are frequently held up as an example to the rest of the world . |
| 24 | Held up as an example of how the regime 's cultural policies nurtured world-class artists , he had been firmly identified with the regime , holding the office of deputy chair of the Democratic Front ( the political umbrella movement incorporating the ruling communist Party of Labour ) . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | CHRONIC asthma sufferer Jeffrey Harrison was held up as an example of the alleged inadequacy of student loans and NHS funding by Labour yesterday . |
| 27 | Yet he is held up as an object of ridicule and loathing throughout the land . |
| 28 | 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 |
| 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 | 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 . |