Example sentences of "held [pers pn] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was polishing glasses and he held them up to the light to check them and thereby seemed to be ignoring Maidstone completely . |
| 2 | I pretended to find a smudge on the glasses , rinsed them , dried them and held them up to the light . |
| 3 | SCRIBBLED swear words on pillows and held them up to the cabin crew members demonstrating emergency procedures . |
| 4 | They thought it was normal for Lucy ( they had never called her Mummy ) to fly from room to room looking for her watch , keys , diary , gloves , scarf , and blow a kiss to them from the garden path as the taxi-driver carried her cello out to the car , while Nissy held them up to the window to wave . |
| 5 | Some days Ariel carried the hooped Sycorax on her back ( she would not ride on anyone else ) down to the shore and into the water , and held her up under the arms so that she could let her contorted frame float free ; small currents spun in the water as if to ease her , and the sky 's blue height seemed to catch them up into its soft vastness and give them fins and wings to fly and swoop , so that they both felt airier and brighter than they had since their freedom had come to an end , and the memory of their former peace returned for a space . |
| 6 | Anne was jolted , but Jeane Russell held her up with a painful grip . |
| 7 | Anna rose and walked away , very slowly and stiffly — Constanza tried to follow her but a waiter held her up with the bill . |
| 8 | They held her up to the window , and she was crying and banging on the glass as we drove away . ’ |
| 9 | Fowler and Gower held him up for a while with 91 for the third wicket , but by the close of play he had two more — including a caught and bowled — and on Monday morning , cutting down his run-up , he polished off the tail to finish with 7 for 53 . |
| 10 | The younger man had hauled his older opponent from the ground and held him up against the wall with one hand while he pummelled his face with the other , and the blood covered his fist . |
| 11 | He drew out a sturdy transparent plastic inner bag and held it up to the light to show me the contents . |
| 12 | Miss Harker looked at it with distaste as if it were a species of repellent insect wriggling on a pin , then took it carefully between her finger and thumb and held it up to the light of the candle . |
| 13 | Once the glass was full he held it up to the lantern that hung from the awning 's strut and toasted whichever patient had paid for that afternoon 's bonefishing . |
| 14 | Kirov held it up to the light , studying it . |
| 15 | Wondering who had wrote it , Katherine turned the letter over in her hands , and then held it up to the light , looking for a watermark — anything which would indicate its origin . |
| 16 | When she held it up to the light she saw that a small circle of skin was inflamed . |
| 17 | The photographer pulled his roll of film from the camera and held it up to the light . |
| 18 | He held it up to the light to give a clearer view . |
| 19 | The white-robed man took the torch from the girl and held it up to the people . |
| 20 | He picked up one of the envelopes and held it up to the light : the watermark showed the heraldic hybrid with which he was becoming familiar , with the wings of an eagle and the body of a lion . |
| 21 | He held it up for the others to see and then threw it at the thin man contemptuously who automatically caught it in both hands . |
| 22 | He stepped over , pierced one of the raw chunks with his dagger and held it up before the mastiff . |
| 23 | She held it up like a torch , her face expressionless . |
| 24 | Wexford held it up in the bright shaft of sunlight . |