Example sentences of "held up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What has all this grand talk about moral universals got to do with the micro-scale empirical sociology which I originally held up as the characteristic of my kind of social anthropology ? |
| 2 | Although women were in practice doing exactly the same work as certain categories of men , they too perceived the division of labour as a gender division , and took as their point of reference for equality the " all-round comp " , whom both masters and men held up as the exemplar , rather than the humbler linesman . |
| 3 | So many times held up at the Falcon Gate , so many times made to open his briefcase and his empty sandwich box and turn his empty coffee flask upside down when he was anxious to get home , so many times subjected to their questions when he was going about his business visiting other corners of the Establishment . |
| 4 | No , what they want is perfectly expressed in the simple banner held up during the Leipzig demonstrations : ‘ Freiheit ! ! ! ’ |
| 5 | Friends and relatives continued to circle the liner in small boats ; a fox terrier , sent on ahead from Germany , was rowed out each day and held up towards the rail and its distant owners . |
| 6 | With a little microphone held up to the telly ? |
| 7 | I think I 'll have a beer tonight Knock , give the jake a rest , ’ said Yanto ‘ Suit yourself , ’ Knocker replied , and drew off a pint of bitter , which he held up to the light . |
| 8 | This is Michael Wayland , who appears on television a lot , and who as a consequence can never remember anything unless it 's written on the Autocue , or held up beside the lens in front of him . |
| 9 | The wing that had appeared like a church from afar was clutched in the attenuated arms of a vine , held up by the vine like a drunken dancer in the arms of a lover . |
| 10 | It held up in the water , throwing the Luton defence off balance and enabling Black to drive home a left-footed volley . |
| 11 | CUSSONS toiletries group Paterson Zochonis reported yesterday that sales of the Imperial Leather brand held up in the UK despite the recession , but the group 's products saw strongest growth overseas . |