Example sentences of "held up " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And saying , ’ said Wendy , ‘ that he 's been held up at a confinement when he 's forgotten all about somebody . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Held up on account of their work to rule . |
| 3 | She was held up briefly in the final when the in-form Sanchez-Vicario swept to a 4–1 lead ( and deservedly so ) and yet Martina , the grass court player supreme , merely drew on her experience , stepped up a gear , kept her nerve and won 5 games in a row to deflate the Spanish challenge . |
| 4 | Other practices that once held up the flow of the dance were the continual closing in 5th position before a new step and the continual moving of the arms through 1st position at every change of weight or during a ports de bras . |
| 5 | In spite of recession and spiralling prices , trade at Taylor Walker 's Central London pubs , and in particular their Nicholson 's houses , have held up well . |
| 6 | Pre-tax profits this year will be lower than last year 's £42.3m and the shares , which slipped 1.5p to 127p , are only being held up by the Coats offer , worth 133p . |
| 7 | In the south of France hundreds of house sales have been held up because there is no one available to process the tax-related paperwork involved . |
| 8 | With most agents in agreement that the top end of the market has held up better than the bottom end , this widening differential between the values of prime and mass-market housing is likely to increase . |
| 9 | Vital grain supplies due in from Siberia were so badly held up that in January 1922 the national Council of Labour and Defence sent there Felix Dzerzhinsky , the head of the secret police , and since April 1921 Commissar for Transport . |
| 10 | Over two thousand telegrams , mainly concerning the supply of the Famine areas , had been held up inside Siberia . |
| 11 | This daily confronting of the ‘ primitive terror ’ as represented by the sea is held up for our admiration . |
| 12 | The correlation which Morgan and Engels make between very simple agriculture and herding and the gentile constitution is a rare example of a proposition of this kind which has held up fairly well in the light of recent research . |
| 13 | Although in law a female fiancée can enter Britain quite freely ( without an entry certificate ) she had been held up , questioned again and again , and late in the evening she had been given a sexual examination by officials who she thought might be doctors . |
| 14 | They arrived at 1 pm. and were held up by Immigration Officers . |
| 15 | As the circuit dried , he stopped for slicks and was not threatened until held up when lapping tail-enders . |
| 16 | Sports reporting certainly had its difficulties for the live commentator , who might be held up to ridicule for a lapse of sense or grammar in the heat of the moment . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't suppose it matters if that 's held up for ten minutes . ’ |
| 18 | Many are the times he has held up busy working schedules because he has become fascinated by someone he has encountered in a crowd . |
| 19 | Its release had , however , been held up for some time on instructions from C. M. Woolf , a shrewd film salesman who had played a key role in financing the first projects of both Balcon and Wilcox . |
| 20 | Also , it is difficult to know how well Rank 's negotiating position would have held up after cinema admissions had started their precipitate decline in the mid-1950s . |
| 21 | With so many contemporary scents to choose from , you can always find the right perfume for the occasion — and best of all , it 's never held up a the dry cleaners ! |
| 22 | The start of trading on the New York and American Stock Exchanges was held up for an hour yesterday after a fire , caused by an electrical fault , broke out in the building housing the exchanges ' computer systems , writes Mary Brasier in New York . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , big , butch rappers like LL Cool J and Public Enemy are held up as authentic voices of the Male Ghetto Experience ( usually by middle-class white semioticians ) , but if anything rap is even more the product of flatulent ego and opportunist marketing than anything by Bros or Kylie Minogue . |
| 24 | Kingfisher risks having its bid held up by a Monopolies Commission investigation because of the grip it would have on the electrical retailing market if it controlled Dixons and Currys as well as Comet . |
| 25 | This will divert forests from disputed uplands where foresters are frequently held up or defeated in long battles with environment groups . |
| 26 | In September agreement was held up when the then Chancellor , Mr Nigel Lawson , seemed reluctant to allow any change in the IMF 's structure which resulted in a drop in Britain 's position as the second largest shareholder within the Fund , even though it is now the sixth largest market economy . |
| 27 | With Prime Minister 's Question Time at last over , those of us waiting to catch the Parkinson statement now found it had been further held up while one of the defence ministers made a laborious job of unwrapping the Ministry of Defence 's Christmas present for the navy — three new frigates . |
| 28 | AGREEMENT on a long-awaited pan-European takeover and mergers code is being held up by West Germany , consumer affairs minister , John Redwood , claimed yesterday . |
| 29 | Discussions are being held up by Germany 's insistance on the involvement of a national body to help decide on any major takeover . |
| 30 | In return the Americans this month unblocked $5m in military aid that had been held up after last year 's arrests . |