Example sentences of "held she " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the incident , the infant had been taken into care but a sheriff held she had not been the victim of an offence and dismissed a referral to a children 's hearing . |
| 2 | Lucy wound down the window of her car and held her face up . |
| 3 | And she knew how urgent and fervent their kisses had been , how close Lucy had been to abandoning whatever it was that held her back , made her withhold her beautiful body . |
| 4 | Jay held her . |
| 5 | Anyway , I just held her , and it felt like she 'd broken , could n't take any more , then she kissed me . |
| 6 | Edward knew he was being pampered and , in his letters to Helen about his friendship with Gwili 's sister , he confessed that ‘ in fact it was partly you that I saw when I held her : I hope I shall never forget her ; then I shall feel that it is possible to love another even though I am all and ever yours , little one . |
| 7 | She has bruising on her wrists from where she says he held her down . ’ |
| 8 | Anne was jolted , but Jeane Russell held her up with a painful grip . |
| 9 | He held her there for two minutes , then paid off a further two degrees , again without adjusting the sails . |
| 10 | He put both arms round her and held her tight to his chest . |
| 11 | Her mother held her at arm 's length and examined her like a piece of merchandise , turning her this way and that , searching for concealed flaws . |
| 12 | He slipped a powerful arm round her and held her tight in to his side , where she purred , rubbing against him like a cat . |
| 13 | But two women leaped forward and held her , though she shrieked and struggled , till the nurse had disappeared into the castle . |
| 14 | Common sense told her to beat it while the going was good but loyalty held her , undecided . |
| 15 | He 'd picked up the baby and held her while Ma gave her the medicine , and his face had the same look as when Billy had fallen in the river . |
| 16 | For a moment , he held her more closely . |
| 17 | Was it because the man who held her in his arms was a confident and easy dancer ? |
| 18 | With staring , dilated eyes , Kelly looked up at the man who held her . |
| 19 | Annie missed the first , she had flu ; every time Annie felt an urge to phone Sheila something held her back — a kind of fearful pride . |
| 20 | Delaney took her by the arm , and held her tightly as she struggled . |
| 21 | He held her again , then he looked round . |
| 22 | I kissed her and held her and tried to get out of the house without saying goodbye to anyone . |
| 23 | All she later remembered was the strength of his hands on her shoulders as he forced her back against the bark of an apple tree and held her there , imprisoned . |
| 24 | The nose-wheel is normally lifted at seventy knots to rotate at ninety , but because of the wind I held her down to 95 for a clean lift-off at a hundred after a run of a thousand yards or so . |
| 25 | The erotic image held her . |
| 26 | He finished dressing , then came and held her by the shoulders , kissing her lightly on the mouth . |
| 27 | It would have been impossible for Liza not to realise her growing power over the opposite sex , nor fail to notice the kind of dumb adoration in which Corporal Carrow held her . |
| 28 | Before he fell asleep he held her in his arms and said , ‘ Ye do n't know what it means to me , coming home again . |
| 29 | She reached up to kiss him , and as he held her to him he was aware of her slender nakedness beneath the ivory silk robe . |
| 30 | He held her at arm 's length . |