Example sentences of "was holding " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if I was holding the thought in my hands , looking at it , turning it about . |
| 2 | DRAINED by the exercise of inferring what was holding together two pieces of stick inside a cardboard box , a first-year science pupil at Gillingham comprehensive school in north Dorset advanced the opinion that the national curriculum was ‘ just another posh name for different subjects ’ . |
| 3 | The German soldier was holding the white flag above his head . |
| 4 | It was perhaps the argument that this imposition of middle-class morality was holding back the British cinema which led to the matter becoming an issue of public concern . |
| 5 | He was holding on to the hand of one of the passengers who was bleeding rather badly . |
| 6 | FRANK Field 's loyalty vote was holding up well yesterday along Park Road , Claughton , at the Labour heart of his Birkenhead parliamentary constituency . |
| 7 | Victory by 92 runs meant that Clive Lloyd was holding aloft the Prudential World Cup for the second time . |
| 8 | The woman was holding on to him with one arm , and with the other she was pounding him on the back , very hard . |
| 9 | It snatched one of the sticks that Philip was holding and dragged it to the far side of the feeding-place , barking . |
| 10 | He looked at the bag Philip was holding . |
| 11 | But he did not know himself what it was and the impossibility of explaining made him turn his head at last and look across at the bright , rectangular picture Doyle was holding out . |
| 12 | He pushed away the photograph of Liam Shakespeare that Jinny was holding out . |
| 13 | Dimly he saw that she was holding something , but he did not realize what it was until she spoke again . |
| 14 | Tug was so surprised that he dropped the cloth he was holding . |
| 15 | Although not exactly dark , nor scary because Gloria was holding her tenderly , it was stuffy under the blanket and irritating to be covered over when you wanted to look out . |
| 16 | But by the time I had got it out of the packet and placed it between my lips , he had lighted a cerillo and was holding it out to me in cupped hands , smiling above the soft yellow flame whose elvish reflection danced in his blue eyes . |
| 17 | She was holding a can of lemonade and pushed the straw into Aunt Louise 's mouth . |
| 18 | It was holding one of those tinfoil , heliumfilled balloons on a string . |
| 19 | She was holding her audience of perhaps a dozen others in a corner of a large drawing-room overlooking the gardens of Belgrave Square . |
| 20 | The Brigadier , a little flushed with good wine , was holding forth about the qualities of modern officers . |
| 21 | She was holding a white slip-on shoe with a strapless back . |
| 22 | Somewhere in the smoky crowd the authoress and photographer , Jill Freedman from New York , was holding court . |
| 23 | Instead , he was holding out like a carrot a heart-stopping headlong plunge into a new dimension of existence . |
| 24 | Then she turned , willing Miss Harker , who was holding out the duster , to look at the board . |
| 25 | Ministers said they were encouraged by reports from candidates that the party 's vote was holding up and appeared to be firmer than Labour 's . |
| 26 | Her husband Mr Stephen Hurkett , who was holding the hand of their eldest daughter Emma , seven , saw the incident . |
| 27 | Lord McAlpine , the former Tory treasurer , was holding a party at his house in Westminster . |
| 28 | A girl with a superheroine costume was holding her face up to the mirror , tracing a cobweb pattern on her pale cheeks . |
| 29 | The man opposite was holding on tight to his groceries . |
| 30 | Prince Rupert managed to fight his way towards London and having reached Brentford , he decided to try to capture London and whilst his troops were encamped on Kew Green , they learned from a maid from a riverside inn ( The Bull ) that Oliver Cromwell was holding a council of war there , so he despatched some horsemen to capture Cromwell , but the ‘ Round Heads ’ kept the horsemen at bay until Cromwell had escaped in a boat to the island in the river closeby , which island has been called ‘ Oliver Isle ’ ever since . |