Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] be be hold " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tonight he 's being held in solitary confinement . |
| 2 | He was arrested and yesterday he was being held in custody in London while detectives questioned him . |
| 3 | After two months in prison , I heard the first news about why I was being held as a political prisoner . |
| 4 | We stayed there for ten and a half years until 15 September 1991 , without ever having any explanation as to why we were being held . |
| 5 | Only if they told us why we were being held , would we co-operate . |
| 6 | The Guardian 's cartoonist showed one health official saying to another : ‘ These regional days of action are so badly organized that Len Murray has to ring up Norman Fowler to ask where they are being held . ’ |
| 7 | In early April two young farm labourers , Valdecir Ferreira and Altair Gomes , narrowly escaped death when a mob 1,500-strong stormed and set fire to the prison where they were being held for the gory knife murder of a taxi-driver , in the state of Parana . |
| 8 | About fifty people due on the flight today were stopped at Baghdad airport by Iraqi authorities , it 's not clear why they 're being held . |
| 9 | Recently 55 more trade unionists have been arrested , yet those who were detained immediately after the 30 June coup have been neither interrogated , charged nor given an explanation of the reason why they are being held . |
| 10 | And in July 1986 , 28 women were teargassed in their communal cell in Pollsmoor when they demanded to know why they were being held . |
| 11 | In July , two or three weeks after arriving in the United States , Eliot travelled to Washington in order to visit Pound at St Elizabeth 's , the asylum where he was being held . |
| 12 | The Lebanese delegation at the Middle East peace talks in Washington [ see p. 39119 ] informed their Israeli counterparts on Sept. 22 that Israeli airman Ron Arad was definitely alive , but that they did not know where he was being held . |
| 13 | Cos they asked these questions about why it was being held and everything . |
| 14 | All we wanted was proof that John was alive and to know why he was being held , but government policy was so rigid that there could be no contact , no discussions . |