I've been held up

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

Second, while I've been held up this week as the "victim" of death threats, at no point did I ever actually receive a personal threat.

During the meeting, Jamel Triggs, who works at Blackstone Bicycle Works, t​ol​d the crowd, "I've been held up, handcuffed and put on the curb for no reason, just because I was there".

Virgin America, which I've been holding up as virtually the only airline that doesn't suck (See Virgin Airlines Fails To Commit Atrocities On Flight VX746 and Delta Flight 1843 From JFK To Hell).

I had been held up in a similar fashion a few days before in the same supermarket.

"I thought to myself," Mandera said, "if I had been held up in the village I would have been raped".

I have been held up with a gun, had my jaw broken and I was tied up by robbers as I opened early one morning.

Trump's bid to end it has been held up in federal court.

Even though he's only made one great album and three half-great ones (Illmatic and the sporadically brilliant It Was Written, Stillmatic, and the recent Life Is Good), Nas has been held up throughout all these years as a potential hip-hop G.O.A.T. for one thing and one thing only: his writing ability.

When I was doing National Service in Rhodesia I saw little girls who had been held up by the legs and sliced down the middle.

He has been held up 27 times.

That law has been held up by a federal court.