Sentence examples for got held by from inspiring English sources

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"Got held by who? Hillary.

Patriots quarterback Tom Brady was intercepted as the game ended, but it looked like tight end Rob Gronkowski got held by Panthers middle linebacker Luke Kuechly with a flag initially thrown before referee Clete Blakeman waved off the flag after determining that the pass was underthrown and wasn't catchable by Gronkowski.

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I used to get held by the police for going to a poetry reading.

After spending several laps within a second of Vettel, the Briton seized his chance on lap 42, taking advantage of Vettel getting held by a HRT to pass the German down the straight into Turn 12. Vettel continued to press Hamilton for the remaining 14 laps, but McLaren driver soaked up the pressure to take his fourth win of that season.

"I remember the second day we were open my manager had got held up by knifepoint".

It was supposed to reach the space station last Sunday, but got held up by inaccurate navigation data.

The Four Seasons at 99 Church Street in the financial district is another condotel that got held up by the credit crunch.

Even with all of the fill-in-the-blanks-easiness, I got held up by some fabulous wordplay: "Lab report?" is ARF, and "Amount over due?" is not a library late fee, but the Italian number TRE. "Alfa Romeo?" should be pronounced with a long "e" on Romeo in order to come up with the correct answer.

Italy's Fiat will also find 2011 hard going, as it gets held back by its Chrysler alliance and weak domestic sales.

Naturally, people who get held up by these knock-on effects find it hard to believe that bad weather somewhere else is responsible.

Sometimes they get stuck en route, and we have to wait two or three weeks for them to get there if they get held up by fighting or another opposition group which isn't happy that we're sending aid through an Isis checkpoint," said a Western aid worker.

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