Example sentences of "[was/were] hold [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The jails where the demonstrators were held were deluged with letters and Christmas food parcels . |
| 2 | I made him close to forty years old and that meant the stubby Mauser he was holding was in good hands . |
| 3 | The trousers he was holding were the ones he 'd been wearing at Streatley the previous weekend . |
| 4 | The walls of the police cell where Tepilit was held are still visible . |
| 5 | The high regard with which the instructor force was held was best summed up by the comment that , ‘ Instructors are good professionals but not so sophisticated as to bemuse the trainees ’ . |
| 6 | The high esteem in which he was held was shown at his funeral where a tribute to his great accomplishments for deaf education in Leeds was paid by the Director of Education for the district . |
| 7 | The barn where it was held was owned by a local farmer , John Ellis , and if Kate knew anything about it , he had known exactly what was going on . |
| 8 | The cell where he was held was , like a prison cell in a spaghetti western , built of mud . |