Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] hold [be] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | The trousers he was holding were the ones he 'd been wearing at Streatley the previous weekend . |
3 | I made him close to forty years old and that meant the stubby Mauser he was holding was in good hands . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | The cell where he was held was , like a prison cell in a spaghetti western , built of mud . |