Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] hold [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have held posts in the north of England , East Anglia , and the west of Scotland and have gained a strong clinical impression of wide regional variations in many conditions of the respiratory tract . |
| 2 | You have been Disney Professor of Archaeology at Cambridge for eleven years and since the mid-Sixties you have held posts at the Universities of Sheffield and Southampton . |
| 3 | We started holding openings on the weekends . |
| 4 | We do hold plans of the protected areas of the coastline , both SSSI 's and second tier sites . |
| 5 | Some of the practices of the colonial state were re-introduced , including corporal punishment , and some of those elected to village councils were rejected on the grounds that they had held positions under the previous regime . |
| 6 | They have held meetings during the past week with potential recruits , although who will take over the chair is not clear . |
| 7 | Formerly with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office , he has held posts at the British Embassy in Madrid and the Western European department , Whitehall . |
| 8 | It looked so simple , so pure , yet it had held terrors for the Ralembergs and would be the beginning of fresh horrors for me . |
| 9 | The next day , US State Department representative Margaret Tutwiler hinted to reporters that Baker was considering transferring his attention from the Middle East to areas of the world " where the circumstances are producing change " , although he continued to hold meetings on the Middle East during January . |