Example sentences of "held a [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It held a pillow to the face of every other kind of music . ’ |
| 2 | They then held a discussion about the riot . |
| 3 | The Clapham I.L.P. , H. N. Brailsford reported , held a discussion on the pros and cons of taking office , in which ‘ every single speech was against ’ . |
| 4 | One rowed while the other held a rope over the stern . |
| 5 | And held a position in the industry at a level not less than junior or first line management at the time of application . |
| 6 | During his period of study at Freiburg and Paris he held a fellowship of the University of Wales . |
| 7 | Their voices and laughter then filled the shearers ' quarters as the two raft parties held a post-mortem on the trip while they ate . |
| 8 | In an unusual move , the full Court of Appeals in a 10–2 decision , threw out the ruling , by one of its own panels as well as a trial court , which held a provision of the British-US extradition treaty unconstitutional . |
| 9 | The committee held a banquet at the City 's Guildhall to discuss constitutional reform and to honour Roy ( now Lord ) Jenkins , who is committed to PR . |
| 10 | The intellectual and emotional leader of that original collective was Fred Newman , a Korean war veteran , who had grown up in the Bronx , held a PhD in the philosophy of science from Stanford and abruptly turned to Marxism in the mid-1960s . |
| 11 | On Dec. 1 Ukraine held a referendum on the independence of the republic , in parallel with republican presidential elections . |
| 12 | RELATIVES of murdered Britons Joanne Walters and Caroline Clarke yesterday held a service at the death spot in the Australian bush . |
| 13 | So their own minister held a service at the station , and the agent gave them a good dinner cheering them on in Gaelic , at which they wept , and they went on to settle at Moosomin , where they lived happily ever afterwards . |
| 14 | The objectors sang hymns and said prayers ‘ to protect the people inside the hall from demonic possession , ’ while 30 friends held a service in the church . |
| 15 | Alexander III has been seen as a great lawyer pope : he made pronouncements , gave judgments and held a council for the whole Church in which the law was defined . |
| 16 | On one occasion she held a mission at the Methodist chapel in Baldersdale which went on every night for two weeks . |
| 17 | On 17 November , for example , about 200 chemistry department students held a sit-in outside the main administrative building at Beijing Normal ( Teachers ' ) University . |
| 18 | On the morning of the vote members of the Socialist Forces Front ( FFS ) held a sit-in outside the Assembly , claiming that it was an unrepresentative body . |
| 19 | The demonstrations began on March 7 , when 200 women representing organisations from all over the West Bank and Gaza held a sit-in at the Red Cross offices in East Jerusalem . |
| 20 | In 838 , Louis the Pious assigned Charles a bajulus ( literally , guardian , or superviser ) , Atto , who held a countship in the Rhineland near Mainz and ( along with his two brothers ) was now being promoted hard by the emperor to keep Louis the German in check . |
| 21 | When eventually the story was checked it was found to be false , evidently initiated as part of an intercommunal feud by a tribal group which held a grudge against the government . |
| 22 | Spike held a foot above the insect army and stamped down on to the ants . |
| 23 | Funcinpec , the Sihanoukist party , held a congress in the north-western province of Oddar Meanchey on Feb. 27-28 . |
| 24 | On Wednesday , January 23 , activists from the London School of Economics ( LSE ) Abortion Rights Group held a picket outside the Irish Embassy in support of Irish students ' campaign to legalise the provision of abortion information in Ireland . |
| 25 | Christine held a cigarette between the fore and middle fingers of her left hand . |
| 26 | The Eastern fathers , and nearly all the Latin fathers too , held a view of the Devil which eventually fell into disrepute . |
| 27 | In most parishes the churchwardens held a stock in the church box ; in some a guild or fraternity of lay people maintained a stock of its own . |
| 28 | The candlelight reflected on his gold wristwatch as he held a lighter to the cigarette of one of the women . |
| 29 | It says right here , ACT-UP did their fucking nuts , quite right too , held a demonstration outside the Chicago gaol and everything , but they still deported him , and now THT and BP and everybody are saying that they wo n't go to the San Francisco conference unless they let PWAs in . ’ |
| 30 | To celebrate the opening of the exhibition Minton held a party at the Mandrake , giving Boris Watson £200 over the bar with the insistence that it had to be spent . |