Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] held for " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was in keeping with the respect in which she is held for her tireless work , especially on behalf of the world 's children . |
| 2 | She was held for forty five minutes and at times , she says , she feared for her life . |
| 3 | After the game we were held for exactly one hour , then herded onto to a train which did n't move for 40 minutes . |
| 4 | There is no National Insurance on the company 's contributions to the fund , and the employee pays no income tax on the shares allocated to him or her provided they are held for at least five years . |
| 5 | The people arrested were taken to separate police stations across Merseyside where they were held for questioning . |
| 6 | It means Jim Courier retains the pole position he 's held for all but 12 weeks of 1992 . |
| 7 | Then on 14 June 1985 TWA Flight 847 was hijacked and forced to land at Beirut where , before the world 's television cameras , it was held for 17 days . |
| 8 | But that Moorish Negress was so skilful in drawing the Turkish bow , that it was held for a marvel , and it is said that they called her in Arabic Nugueymat Turya , which is to say , the Star of the Archers . |
| 9 | That was the lure of Persia — the fantastic attractions it was held for Westerner ever since the seventeenth century , when traders , ambassadors and princes began to bring back exotic spices , silks and tales . |
| 10 | He was held for four hours and beaten with a truncheon . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |