Example sentences of "be hold the [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stag parties and hen parties used to be held the night before the wedding , the last opportunity for the girls and boys to go out , or stay at home , with friends of their own sex . |
| 2 | Do n't forget , the paper prominently said , that the first of the two Celebration of Canadian Racing meetings would be held the evening with the regular post time of 7 p.m. , while the second meeting , including the running of the Jockey Club Race Train Stakes would be tomorrow afternoon , post time 1.30 . |
| 3 | His rigorous moral choice against communism strengthened a sense of moral superiority among the Germans , who felt that they were holding the fort for the free world : |
| 4 | While the Tories were holding the line in the South , there was gloomier news in the North . |
| 5 | Capital money was , however , always to be paid , not to the life tenant , but to trustees , who were to hold the money upon the same trusts as those upon which the land had been held . |
| 6 | Mr Dickinson said : ‘ From what I understand what has happened is that last year the county championships were held the week after the Spring Bank Holiday and some counties have automatically presumed that this would be the case this year Cleveland and Northumberland included . |
| 7 | Australian-born Lady Tryon — dubbed Kanga by Prince Charles — is holding the sale at the Manor House , Great Durnford , Wiltshire , the Tryon family home into which she and her husband , Anthony , and four children recently moved . |
| 8 | One of London 's leading salons is holding the sale of the century this month . |
| 9 | Another possible gain in efficiency is to hold the indexes of the inverted file in sequential order so that the binary search ( discussed in Section 5.2 ) can be applied . |
| 10 | While you are experimenting with the zoom , note how much easier it is to hold the picture in the viewfinder steady when it is set to wide-angle . |
| 11 | What you do is hold the end of the stick and keep the arm more or less still . |
| 12 | And all the while , while he was handing him the plate of meat and bread , and while he was holding the cup to the trembling lips , a little silvery voice was beating inside Fergus 's head : this is all wrong . |
| 13 | Corbett returned to a grinning Ranulf , who was holding the heads of the horses . |
| 14 | Erm well the solution to that was to hold the meetings of the General Assembly , where the hostile American majority was , but not to permit a vote to be taken on any resolution and this meant that President Johnson could pursue his , his then secret plan of bombing the north without any hostile United Nations resolution being passed against it . |
| 15 | Erm well the solution to that was to hold the meetings of the General Assembly , where the hostile American majority was , but not to permit a vote to be taken on any resolution and this meant that President Johnson could pursue his , his then secret plan of bombing the north without any hostile United Nations resolution being passed against it . |