Example sentences of "had [be] hold [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Walther Devlin had been holding on his knee appeared above the table now and he fired again , shooting Eggar through the right hand . |
| 2 | As the door closed , Zen let out a breath he realized he had been holding for a long time . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Climbing to his feet , the tall sheriff pocketed the small hand-mirror he had been holding to Grant 's lips . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | Irina , who had been holding in her hand the red saucepan earlier referred to by Ludens , put it down and said , ‘ Oh . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In 1983 AI learned of the release of a group of Jehovah 's Witnesses who had been held without trial since 1978 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A number of prisoners detained in connection with alleged drug trafficking had been held without trial since 1991 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A further Hearing of Orkney Children 's Panel had been held on 25 March to extend the orders and keep the children in care . |
| 18 | Virtually everybody there had been held on remand or had been to prison before , so knew how the prison ran . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Two demonstrations in support of multiparty democracy had been held on Dec. 10 and Dec. 31 . |
| 21 | ( Similar , more strongly supported protests had been held on Oct. 23 and Nov. 30 , 1990 . ) |
| 22 | 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 ] . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Local elections had been held on Oct. 16 [ see pp. 39168-69 ] . |
| 25 | reported that a meeting had been held on the previous evening . |
| 26 | Whilst the venue on this occasion was central and it was not the first time the A.G.M. had been held on a Friday evening , the Committee appreciates that perhaps the idea of holding the Meeting on the evening before the Dinner Dance to enable those travelling to London to attend both events was not a good one . |
| 27 | I was unable to share his joy , not particularly because my home team had been held to a draw , but because I fell headlong into the tent , throwing a pan of boiling rice everywhere . |
| 28 | After all , during the First World War prices had been held to a twofold increase : the inflationary explosion had occurred immediately after the war . |
| 29 | Earlier on March 11 the election had been held to the post of Chairman of the Supreme Council ( i.e. President of Lithuania ) . |
| 30 | If a duty had been held to be owed to Dick then the occupier had cause to appreciate the presence of the child and the premises would have to be reasonably safe for a child trespasser and an obstacle to entry erected . |