Example sentences of "was hold [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alina was holding onto the door , because the six steps that she 'd taken to reach it had almost been enough to exhaust her ; Belov dusted off his hands and came over to her now , and he took her by the shoulders and turned her around and steered her back toward the bed that she 'd just left . |
| 2 | And when because the family doctor really know whe anything that was happening but was holding on the phone over the phone , oh he 's got a pain you know . |
| 3 | ‘ But I never connected the baby I was holding with the baby who was kidnapped . |
| 4 | He spilled the large container of orange juice he was holding across the bar towards the spot where X was seated . |
| 5 | He was to hold onto the window sash while cleaning . |
| 6 | The Thatcher administration was still new to the power it was to hold for the rest of the decade and a reader might reasonably expect to find something seminal in the report . |
| 7 | Sir John Wolfenden , the then vice-chancellor of Reading University , was chosen to be its Chairman , a job which he was to hold for the three years that the Committee took to produce its Report . |
| 8 | An inquiry was held into the working of the 1969 Act and a White Paper , entitled simply Young Offenders ( Cmnd 8045 ) , was published in 1980 with proposals for ‘ strengthening the law relating to juvenile and young offenders in England and Wales ’ . |
| 9 | The first race was from Paris to Lyons in 1900 and it remained an open road race until 1903 when it was held over the Athy circuit in Ireland . |
| 10 | A public discussion was held between the groups , the designers explaining how the machines would work . |
| 11 | As he was held between the conflicting pressures of wind and water , so he was caught between the desire to reach Mariana and offer her comfort and the need to husband his remaining strength — but he knew that the husbanding of his strength was paramount if they were to survive . |
| 12 | I did the same with another strip around the right ankle and over the foot , so that it was held between the sole of the foot and the wooden backing of the old door . |
| 13 | On 6 April the USA declared war on Germany and on the following 8 May a conference was held between the US Shipping Board , the US Steamship Owners and the US International Seamen 's Union which resulted in what became known as the " Atlantic Agreement " which laid down manning levels , wages and bonuses . |
| 14 | In February 1990 a meeting was held between the then Prime Minister Miklós Németh , the then acting President Matyás Szürös and opposition party representatives , to discuss the period up to the March-April multiparty parliamentary elections , [ for which see pp. 37325 ; 37380 ] . |
| 15 | On Feb. 21 the first meeting was held between the new government and the trade unions , but Podkrepa refused to attend the meeting with Dimitrov and other Cabinet members because the CITUB 's chair , Krustyu Petkov , was also invited . |
| 16 | A summit meeting was held between the Croatian and Slovenian Presidents , Franjo Tudjman and Milan Kucan , at Brdo north of Ljubljana , the Slovenian capital , on Oct. 13 . |
| 17 | The protest was held outside the Court of Appeal where six leaders of the illegal fundamentalist Justice and Welfare Party ( Adl wa Lihsane ) were appealing against two-year prison sentences conferred on them in March . |
| 18 | Following this , on March 9 , a demonstration was held outside the London offices of Texaco — the multi-million dollar oil empire . |
| 19 | A demonstration was held outside the hospital after it was first suggested the units might close , but now the protestors must wait until next year to see what happens . |
| 20 | The manor , in the Aire valley just outside Leeds , was held of the duchy of Lancaster , which may first have brought William to Gloucester 's notice . |
| 21 | The manor , in the Aire valley just outside Leeds , was held of the duchy of Lancaster , which may first have brought William to Gloucester 's notice . |
| 22 | It was held under the previous law that a police officer could be the ‘ other ’ person . |
| 23 | On reaching the box , he would take off his helmet and put it over one arm , while his tuck-box was held under the other . |
| 24 | The 1954 election was held under the same franchise as before ( giving the vote to about half the adult population ) but this time the whole country was divided into 104 single-member constituencies . |
| 25 | Although the term might seem naturally to denote prior arrangement , it was held under the previous law that the word is ‘ not a term of art ’ and that a person can organise spontaneously by giving directions on the spot as to such matters as the route to ken , when to stop and when to advance and so forth . |
| 26 | The gathering was held under the auspices of the Saudi government , and was also understood to have had the backing of Iran , which had conducted separate talks with opposition leaders . |
| 27 | The summit was held under the aegis of the Organization of African Unity , of which Babangida was current chair . |
| 28 | The Bahr Dar meeting was held under the auspices of the standing committee on the Horn of Africa , established in April [ see p. 38855 ] . |
| 29 | A well-attended symposium on Global atmospheric chemical change , organised jointly by the Environment Group and the Industrial Division , was held at the Scientific Societies ' Lecture Theatre , London , last November . |
| 30 | July 1945 , and as the number of people expected to attend was considerably more than the Chiswick Town Hall could accommodate , the ceremony was held at the Chiswick Empire , hired for the occasion , and to which ‘ Monty ’ accompanied by the Mayor , Alderman T. W. Stroud , J.P. , rode in a landau carriage through cheering crowds . |