Example sentences of "held [adv prt] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With no airbrake the glider will float some distance even at low speed , and it must still be held off for a proper touchdown . |
| 2 | We had the G A T talks held up for a lengthy period simply because the French wanted even more cash for agriculture and of course they got it and it 's rather silly when we 're spending two hundred and fifty million pounds a week on dumping and destroying food . |
| 3 | Then the funeral was held up for a few days , and we soon realised that the effect was indeed cosmetic and nothing more . |
| 4 | If I 'd been a union member I might have held out for a better offer or some redundancy money , but I was n't , so that was that . |
| 5 | Held back for a long time by wild hitting , she has accepted in the last 12 months that there are occasions when she must suppress the urge to attack everything flat out . |
| 6 | I ended up going over the falls and being held under for a long time , and thinking there was no way I was going to come up before the next wave came across . |