Sentence examples for we were held up from inspiring English sources

When we tried to cover banditry, we were held up at gunpoint ourselves.

Once, all three of us were driving in a car, when we were held up by some policemen.

On the very first win-a-trip in 2006, we were held up at gunpoint in the Central African Republic.

One year, I had flowering cherries in prime condition, put them on the lorry, but there was an accident and we were held up for three hours.

We were held up while we substituted Hog Two for Hog One.' But there's also another feeling, which he describes as one of 'worthlessness', as though he has no right to be there and doesn't know what he's doing.

"Even the start of the English game, we were held up over the line twice early on.

"All the hopes that we were holding up at that point became reality," Epstein told me.

She had wanted to speak to me about what to expect, how we were holding up and generally what life was like going through this ordeal.

The second time I met Claudia Cadelo we were holding up -- each of us by one corner -- a piece of sheet with the name "Gorki".

'If we are held up to public ridicule, we don't like it and two things will happen.

So we are held up for two hours waiting for a festival steward to give us the all clear.