Sentence examples for holding him captive from inspiring English sources
But he doesn't move or make any attempt to break the spell that seems to be holding him captive.
When he moved toward the door as if to elude her, she seized his arm and walked with him, holding him captive.
Three Seal snipers on the fantail of the Bainbridge killed the three pirates holding him captive; a fourth pirate in the lifeboat had surrendered earlier.
To those holding him captive, she said, "Our hopes are that you will release him unharmed and as soon as possible".
He was held over a hostage incident in a courthouse last week, which ended when a state prosecutor and the two gunmen holding him captive were killed when the building was stormed by Turkish security forces.
The former executive, Masafumi Okanda, 32, who quit the Japanese company last month, is suspected of kidnapping a former director of the company and holding him captive for three days in June 1999.
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".
In 2009, the Haqqanis abducted a U.S. soldier, Bowe Bergdahl, and held him captive in Pakistan for five years.
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.
