Example sentences of "he [be] hold [be] " in BNC.
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1 | The measure of the esteem in which he is held is shown by three forthcoming exhibitions devoted to his contribution : ‘ L'Oeil du Connaisseur : hommage à Philip Pouncey ’ at the Louvre , 19 June-7 September ; another at the Uffizi later this year ( dates unavailable ) , and the third at the British Museum in January 1994 . |
2 | •Wolverhampton teen-ager Lee Collings has got plenty to smile about — the carp he 's holding is a personal best 19 lb mirror taken from a Shropshire syndicate lake . |
3 | The trousers he was holding were the ones he 'd been wearing at Streatley the previous weekend . |
4 | I made him close to forty years old and that meant the stubby Mauser he was holding was in good hands . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | The cell where he was held was , like a prison cell in a spaghetti western , built of mud . |