Sentence examples for hold him captive from inspiring English sources

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If he refused, a regiment of K.G.B. troops would hold him captive indefinitely at his seaside villa.

"I'm going to get a Konami operative round mine, and hold him captive as my personal IT slave".

Libyan fighters from the Western town of Zintan continue to hold him captive, and have refused to turn him over to Libya's interim Justice Ministry.

Lusimbo believed that he was under what activists call "house arrest," meaning that the family of an L.G.B.T. hold him captive at home and harangue him until he promises to abandon his partners and gay friends.

According to the Office for Intellectual Freedom of the American Library Association, the book -- in which protagonist Meg Murry must use time travel and extrasensory perception to rescue her father from evil forces that hold him captive on another planet -- ranked 23rd among the most frequently challenged books of the 90's.

What he eventually found was another war, a different war of destruction and devastation that would indeed hold him captive.

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He seized Mummu and held him captive by a nose rope.

In 2009, the Haqqanis abducted a U.S. soldier, Bowe Bergdahl, and held him captive in Pakistan for five years.

But he doesn't move or make any attempt to break the spell that seems to be holding him captive.

In 1991, Mauricio Macri was kidnapped by a group of rogue policemen, who held him captive for twelve days, before ransoming him for six million dollars.

When he moved toward the door as if to elude her, she seized his arm and walked with him, holding him captive.

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