Example sentences of "he [was/were] held [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MANSUR MUHAMMAD AHMED RAJIH : a 34-year-old writer and poet , he was held without charge or trial for over a year before being sentenced to death in 1984 after an unfair trial on false criminal charges . |
| 2 | He was held without charge or trial for six months and then released . |
| 3 | He was held at gunpoint , handcuffed , blindfolded and forced into the boot of Major Maxim 's car . |
| 4 | In practice the authority of an individual metropolitan was influenced by political factors , such as the favour in which he was held at court . |
| 5 | Following violent protest riots in the mainly English-speaking North-West Province , centred on Fru Ndi 's home town of Bamenda , about 150 gendarmes were said to have surrounded the opposition leader 's house , where he was held with over 100 relatives and followers . |
| 6 | He was held for four hours and beaten with a truncheon . |
| 7 | Meanwhile he was held for seventeen months in prison in Oxford , where a debate was staged in which Cranmer and bishops Latimer and Ridley were pitted against selected scholars from Oxford and Cambridge . |
| 8 | His official car was intercepted in the centre of Vilnius , and he was taken in handcuffs to the OMON headquarters outside the city , where he was held for questioning for nearly 12 hours before being released . |
| 9 | Miles , who has already conceded half a point to Ian Rogers , had a lucky escape when he was held to a draw by the New Zealand champion Martin Dreyer . |
| 10 | In 1986 Mr Leon Brittan , the Home Secretary , resigned because he was held to be responsible for the leak of a letter containing the opinions of a law officer about the actions of the Secretary for Defence , Mr Michael Heseltine . |
| 11 | Big-punching Wharton is also free of the agony in his right hand that plagued him for months and reduced him to a one-armed fighter when he was held to a draw by Londoner Lou Gent in November . |
| 12 | Thus , where a landlord was entitled to enter the demised property to carry out such improvements , additions and alterations as he considered reasonable , he was held to be entitled to demolish and reconstruct all the existing buildings comprising the demised property without putting an end to the tenancy ( Price v Esso Petroleum Co Ltd ( 1980 ) 255 EG 243 ) . |
| 13 | As he was held between the conflicting pressures of wind and water , so he was caught between the desire to reach Mariana and offer her comfort and the need to husband his remaining strength — but he knew that the husbanding of his strength was paramount if they were to survive . |
| 14 | Bernard Fall says very precisely that he was held from 28 August 1942 to 16 September 1943 . |
| 15 | Harry led our team by example — although perhaps what some of his colleagues needed was a skipper who could also drive or cajole them to better things — but it was a mark of the respect in which he was held by Palace supporters that his well-deserved Benefit in 1953–54 was so well attended . |
| 16 | John Stanley 's extemporizations on the organ of Temple Church in London were attended by Handel , and yet the esteem in which he was held by his contemporaries has failed to gain him the reputation that he should enjoy today . |
| 17 | However , connections were unfortunate to come up against a fine-tuned Remittance Man last March and , although Katabatic ran a cracker , mounting a ferocious challenge up the final climb , he was held by a length at the line . |
| 18 | The couple was first drawn to the work of Magritte by the high regard in which he was held by another great Surrealist , Marcel Duchamp , and by Julian Levy and Alexander Iolas . |
| 19 | And at the Leicester Congress in 1931 , an illuminated address , signed by every member of the executive , bore witness to the respect in which he was held by his colleagues and the deaf community as a whole . |
| 20 | ‘ The respect in which he was held by everyone who knew him was reflected in the very large numbers that attended . ’ |
| 21 | However , he was unfortunate to come up against a finely-tuned Remittance Man last March and , although Katabatic ran a cracker , mounting a ferocious challenge up the final climb , he was held by a length at the line . |
| 22 | He was held in solitary confinement in the General Intelligence headquarters in Riyadh and was reportedly tortured . |
| 23 | At college he was held in great affection and esteem by his fellow students . |
| 24 | MONCEF TRIKI : a father of four , he was held in prolonged incommunicado detention , tortured and then sentenced in August 1991 to 15 months ' imprisonment after an unfair trial . |
| 25 | He was held in incommunicado in Bouchoucha Detention Centre for nearly three months , over 70 days beyond the maximum 10-day period allowed by Tunisian law . |
| 26 | He was held in respect by some of the participants Who had confidence in his ability to correct many of the injustices and set the country on the path to substantial reform in all areas . |
| 27 | It was his great satisfaction in retirement to know that he was held in deep affection by many hundreds of students who were fortunate enough to come under his caring influence . ’ |
| 28 | They were all offices which indicated that he was held in good regard , but not considered a serious candidate for major political advancement . |
| 29 | He was held in a wretchedly depressing and isolating prison environment for many weeks while the legal process ground slowly on . |
| 30 | He was held in a reclining position by his seat-belt , with his head bent back and his mouth open , his eyes staring up at the roof of the car , his right arm hanging straight down , his left snagged on the gear-stick . |