Example sentences of "[prep] [be] hold [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | City were looking to make the effort for a promotion spot when entertaining a side from the bottom half of the table , after being held to a draw last week . |
| 2 | Oumarou Aman , Cameroon : released from labour camp in January 1991 after being held for more than six years without charge or trial . |
| 3 | A WOMAN escaped unharmed with her 11-month-old son yesterday after being held for 45 minutes by a knife-wielding kidnapper . |
| 4 | Maze fugitive Jim Smyth , 38 , was released in San Francisco after being held for passport offences . |
| 5 | K. Doraiswamy , executive director of the Indian Oil Corporation , was freed on Aug. 20 after being held for 55 days by the Ikhwan-ul-Muslameen group . |
| 6 | A win today would put pressure on the top three , but Newcastle will regard the draw as a safe option after being held at home by Middlesbrough last weekend . |
| 7 | Paperboy Ben Cosstick was back on his delivery rounds today , just forty eight hours after being held at gunpoint during a robbery at a newsagents in Bletchley . |
| 8 | Arrested : A distraught Ms Gibson shouts to reporters after being held at the airport |
| 9 | Larry Perkins and Tomas Mezera underlined the Holden 's newfound competitiveness by finishing third , after being held in the pit lane when the race was under a yellow flag/pace car caution . |
| 10 | Wang Ruowang , a prominent writer and dissident , was unexpectedly released on Oct. 29 after being held in detention in Shanghai for over a year . |
| 11 | RIO DE JANEIRO ( AP ) — Luis Sales , head of a Brazilian advertising agency , was freed unharmed after being held by kidnappers for two months . |
| 12 | On July 17 a French aid worker Xavier Rouan had been released after being held by mujaheddin guerrillas since July 5 . |
| 13 | Kidnappers strip victim A 26-YEAR-OLD man turned up naked on a garage forecourt after being held by a kidnap gang for three hours . |
| 14 | The intense heat of being held over a gas jet will cause immediate and permanent discolouring . |
| 15 | The memory of being held in a man 's hard arms had disappeared . |
| 16 | It was over three months now since she had known the sensation of being held in a man 's arms . |
| 17 | And as for recalling those moments of being held in his arms … she 'd be wise to forget them . |
| 18 | ( 6 ) A legal estate is not capable of subsisting or of being created in an undivided share in land or of being held by an infant . |
| 19 | If only she 'd never met him — had never experienced the exquisite sweetness of being held against his heart — she would n't now be crushed under the weight of this unbearable sorrow . |
| 20 | ‘ Last night ? ’ she echoed faintly , before suddenly recalling a dim memory of being held within a pair of comforting arms . |
| 21 | The system , known at the time as réduction François , was not accepted immediately in the Champagne community , despite being held in great esteem elsewhere and , ironically — which was most damaging of all to the Champagne industry — used to further the production of German sparkling sekt . |
| 22 | Moya , a seemingly relaxed woman in her forties , described her attacks , which she has been having for 20 years , as ‘ an enormous blackness and fear , like being held under water ’ . |
| 23 | All you really know about general , about the general election is that it 's got ta be held before the end of parliament 's statutory life of five years . |
| 24 | Another ceasefire brokered by the European Communities ( EC ) appeared to be holding for a time , as the Hague peace conference continued its efforts to find long-term solutions to the conflict , but the truce collapsed in early October . |
| 25 | The ceasefire seemed to be holding on Sept. 23 as Croatia and the navy began to lift their respective blockades ( although many barracks continued under siege ) . |
| 26 | This ceasefire was reported to be holding on Oct 21 , although poor weather was thought to be a major factor . |
| 27 | The July peace agreement designed to end the fighting between Moldova and the self-proclaimed Dnestr republic appeared to be holding on Aug. 7 as Russian and Moldovan leaders began talks in Moscow on the implementation of the accord , and on economic ties . |
| 28 | Troops of the 1,500-strong Senegalese ECOMOG contingent were said to be holding off NPFL guerrillas attacking a strategic bridge 7 km north of central Monrovia . |
| 29 | The ceasefire agreement nevertheless appeared to be holding in the corridors , at least up to the final week of February , and there had still been no reports of any serious breaches of the Rome agreement . |
| 30 | Food and medicine reached the eastern town of Zepa , but there was still no aid distribution in Sarajevo , despite a unilateral , nationwide cease-fire called by Bosnia 's Muslim president , Alija Izetbegovic , which appeared to be holding around the capital , although fighting was reported elsewhere in the country . |