Example sentences of "[vb past] be hold [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some items I 'd been holding for him . |
| 2 | She heard him release the breath he 'd been holding in a sigh . |
| 3 | ‘ He 'd been held for four months . |
| 4 | He 'd been held for eleven days . |
| 5 | ‘ My lord said that he 'd brought you from Gloucester , ’ volunteered Ellen , setting a trencher of bread and fruit on the table , ‘ where you 'd been held since your father 's death . |
| 6 | I tried to remember when I 'd been held like that before , and by whom . |
| 7 | For an instance where the medical expenses claimed were held to be unreasonably high , see Roberts v Roberts ( 1960 ) The Times , 11 March ; for cases where very high medical expenses were held to have been reasonably incurred , see Winkworth v Hubbard [ 1960 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 150 and Hamp v Sisters of St Joseph 's Mount Carmel Convent School Bar Library Transcript No 305B of 1973 ( Kemp & Kemp D2-011 and D2-100 ( Sweet & Maxwell ) , The Quantum of Damages , 2 , para 5 – 011 ) . |
| 8 | The Walther Devlin had been holding on his knee appeared above the table now and he fired again , shooting Eggar through the right hand . |
| 9 | As the door closed , Zen let out a breath he realized he had been holding for a long time . |
| 10 | The officer 's life was ‘ almost certainly ’ saved by the fact that one bullet became embedded in a radio handset he had been holding to his ear . |
| 11 | Climbing to his feet , the tall sheriff pocketed the small hand-mirror he had been holding to Grant 's lips . |
| 12 | His life had almost certainly been saved by the fact that one bullet had hit a radio handset he had been holding to his ear . |
| 13 | Earlier this month Bear Stearns , the New York investment bank , distributed 10 million shares that it had been holding as part of a deferred payment plan . |
| 14 | ‘ Present from Alan behind the bar , ’ said Sarah , drawing out the glass she had been holding behind the frilly apron the waitresses at the Right and Wrong had to wear . |
| 15 | Irina , who had been holding in her hand the red saucepan earlier referred to by Ludens , put it down and said , ‘ Oh . ’ |
| 16 | All three had been supporters of Zhao Ziyang , the former party general secretary who had been held under house arrest since his dismissal in June 1989 . |
| 17 | In 1983 AI learned of the release of a group of Jehovah 's Witnesses who had been held without trial since 1978 . |
| 18 | Other political prisoners released including Andrew Kwame Pianim , an economist , businessman and former chief executive of the Cocoa Marketing Board , Bombardier Mustapha Mohamed , one of Ghana 's longest held political prisoners , detained without trial since December 1982 , and Corporal Stanley Okyere and three others who had been held without charge or trial since 1983 ( see AMNESTY , April/May , p10 ) . |
| 19 | It was 1747 before trouble was again encountered over the question of the collectorship , and at that time the office had been held without dispute for several years by Michael Elphinstone of Quarrel , whose election had been secured by an alliance of the Duke of Montrose and Lord Elphinstone . |
| 20 | A report on Amnesty International 's first investigation into political detentions in Saudi Arabia , published on Jan. 11 , claimed that over 700 political opponents of the regime — principally members of Shia opposition groupings — had been held without trial since 1983 , including some 100 in 1989 alone . |
| 21 | A number of prisoners detained in connection with alleged drug trafficking had been held without trial since 1991 . |
| 22 | DAB was pleased to record that five successful , well attended DAB conferences had been held during the summer and autumn : international symposium on Supporting reagent chemistry ( York ) , 10th international meeting on NMR spectroscopy ( St Andrews ) , 11th international conference on Chemical education ( York ) , 16th international symposium on Macrocyclic chemistry ( Sheffield ) and the 1991 Autumn meeting ( York ) . |
| 23 | But we must not be confused by this : a wide variety of views had been held on the relations of popes and emperors , bishops and kings , in the tenth century ; a wide variety was still held in the twelfth . |
| 24 | A further Hearing of Orkney Children 's Panel had been held on 25 March to extend the orders and keep the children in care . |
| 25 | Virtually everybody there had been held on remand or had been to prison before , so knew how the prison ran . |
| 26 | On climate change [ see also p. 37291 ] , Resolution 44/207 recalled an earlier resolution ( 43/53 — see p. 36778 ) and noted the number of conferences that had been held on this issue in 1989 . |
| 27 | Two demonstrations in support of multiparty democracy had been held on Dec. 10 and Dec. 31 . |
| 28 | ( Similar , more strongly supported protests had been held on Oct. 23 and Nov. 30 , 1990 . ) |
| 29 | An appeal court in Paris on July 11 ordered the release on bail of Paul Touvier , who had been held on charges of war crimes committed in 1944 during the Nazi occupation of France [ see also p. 37899 ] . |
| 30 | Meetings at ministerial level had been held on Dec. 28 , 1991 , and the Presidents of Romania and Moldova , Ion Iliescu and Mircea Snegur , met in Moldova on Jan. 25 . |