Sentence examples for I was held back from inspiring English sources

For a long time, I was held back by a lack of confidence.

"I felt I wanted to grow up but I was held back as an ethereal being.

After a flight from Tunis, my husband was passed through while I was held back and my passport confiscated, perhaps because I had made the mistake of speaking Arabic.

In the story "Teamed With Genius," the protagonist's artistic better — an English playwright named René Wilcox, who has no prior experience in movies — explains: At first I was held back by personal worries, but once I got started it was very simple.

After an early-morning start and two sessions of cricket, the temptation was to return to bed, but I was held back by the chance to watch some of those on the fringes of national selection for Australia – Shaun Tait, Phillip Hughes and Michael Klinger.

I don't feel that I was held back in any way to do what I needed to do".

"I was holding back tears watching it.

"It was like I was holding back," he says.

Bloody hell, I was holding back some tears".

"I was holding back and taking it in.

"I was holding back," the Republican presidential candidate said.