Example sentences of "[pron] held [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Good morning , Rickie , ’ I said loudly , wanting to demonstrate that I held no grudge for his behaviour in the night . |
| 2 | Carson Buchanan , Alf Jacobson and I held a meeting to discuss the situation ; the question was whether or not we should pull in our horns and try to placate the commercial stations and the politicians whom they had influenced . |
| 3 | I held a painting party once , along the same lines . |
| 4 | During the recess I held a number of surgeries in Dundee colleges , which were specifically for students . |
| 5 | I held a Council , at which Mr Ramsay MacDonald was sworn in a member . |
| 6 | ‘ He was youth manager at Wimbledon when I held a similar position at Palace . |
| 7 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 8 | I held the door open for him . |
| 9 | Fox red , moonbeam silver , I held the precious strands like a pilgrim sips water from a miraculous spring . |
| 10 | Before I visited Small 's farm , I held the view that shooting foxes was always both odious and wrong . |
| 11 | Suddenly amused , I held the stiff door open for him and bowed languidly from the waist with an exquisite fin-de-siècle sarcasm , a little flourish of an unquenched spirit . |
| 12 | Then from 802–811 the usurper Nicephorus I held the throne . |
| 13 | ‘ Maybe he 's used to servants , ’ I said to Helen in a loud voice , as I held the door open for him to slide in next to Jeeta and Jamila . |
| 14 | I tried to crush up a salt tablet in a cup and dissolve it in the water but she moaned when I held the cup to her lips and tried to turn her head away . |
| 15 | I held the vase carefully . |
| 16 | I held the jumper up to the machine , without stretching the work ( that is , between the two markers ) and picked up the ‘ stitches ’ within this area . |
| 17 | If I held the winning ticket this would definitely be my Single Of The Week . |
| 18 | I held the watch to my ear-it was battery-run , but a faint tick could normally be heard . |
| 19 | I held the children with their mother . |
| 20 | He opened his eyes ; I held the light away . |
| 21 | The closest I came to anything clinical was watching a nurse shave the chest of a Lebanese businessman , so that she could attach the electrodes required for an ECG — I held the kidney dish into which the used razor was deposited . |
| 22 | Er previously I 've had , held the license of Three Fishes at Lyddon er , for three years er , previous to that I held the license of the Mason 's Arms , with for three years previous to that and before I 've been connected with the catering and licensed trade from be fifteen . |
| 23 | Er previous to that I held the licence at The Three Fishes at er for three years . |
| 24 | Er previous to that I held the licence for The Mason 's Arms at for three years previous to that and before that I 've been connected with the catering and licence trade from being fifteen . |
| 25 | but I held the wobbly head of a boy |
| 26 | I held the curtailed lock out to him . |
| 27 | I held the book aloft . |
| 28 | I drove myself on in the certainty that I held the ‘ trump ’ card behind me , quite literally . |
| 29 | So I held the cigarette between my fingers , and waited . |
| 30 | Once more inside the pen I held the shovel in front of me and tried to usher the huge sow towards the door . |