1.   We are all very excited and are looking forward to the Olympic Games because they have never been held before in this country.

2.   Official radio reported that evening that early and separate legislative and presidential elections would be held before the end of the year.

3.   It had earlier been expected that the UN referendum there would be held before the Moroccan elections.

4.   The terms of reference for the inspection should be decided and defined at meetings to be held before the inspection takes place.

5.   Now he was riding clear in the front, and so, on each wing, were Cormac and Ferteth, their shields held before them.

6.   She held it before her, stared at its eyes, kissed its lips, breathed through the mouth into the unconscious region beyond the wood.

7.   Seven cases were dismissed for various reasons at the civil hearing held before Sheriff Alexander Jessop.

8.   As the field recycled, Burton returned to the fifth-place position he held before the pit stop.

9.   As Wallace speaks, he holds before him a glass that slowly fills with a brown, foamy, beerlike liquid.