Sentence examples for and held by a from inspiring English sources

She was pulled off the MP by his assistant and held by a security guard.

Santos himself was kidnapped and held by a cocaine gang for 18 months in the 1990s.

Protests followed the strikes, and one sign – written in English and held by a young boy – read "Don't kill our children by your aircrafts".

The mother of a famous baseball star is kidnapped in Caracas and held by a group of young guerrillas for ransom ("The Unlucky Mother of Aquiles Maldonado").

The plaintiffs are not seeking damages in the lawsuit; instead, they are asking that the books be taken off the HathiTrust servers and held by a trustee.

The licit, or legal market, is comprised of all guns that are registered and held by a person with a licence.

The stay suture was clamped in a mosquito forceps and held by an assistant.

An electronic password-protected spreadsheet that contained concealed acupuncture group allocation was prepared by a researcher (BM) with no other involvement in the study, and held by an investigator (MP) not involved in recruitment, assessment or treatment.

The strips were mounted in a dynamic mechanical analyzer (DMA, Mettler Toledo DMA/SDTA 861e, Columbus, OH) and held by grips exposing a 5.5 mm length of periderm strip.

It will either be pushed in and held by force or a spring mechanism, or screwed in place.

The prey is struck and held by the teeth, and a series of body coils are rapidly thrown around it.