Example sentences of "held [pers pn] up [prep] the " 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 Anna rose and walked away , very slowly and stiffly — Constanza tried to follow her but a waiter held her up with the bill .
7 They held her up to the window , and she was crying and banging on the glass as we drove away . ’
8 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 .
9 He drew out a sturdy transparent plastic inner bag and held it up to the light to show me the contents .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 Kirov held it up to the light , studying it .
13 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 .
14 When she held it up to the light she saw that a small circle of skin was inflamed .
15 The photographer pulled his roll of film from the camera and held it up to the light .
16 He held it up to the light to give a clearer view .
17 The white-robed man took the torch from the girl and held it up to the people .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 He stepped over , pierced one of the raw chunks with his dagger and held it up before the mastiff .
21 Wexford held it up in the bright shaft of sunlight .
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