Example sentences of "have hold the [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She caused a few titters when she said she 'd held the court in the church for the convenience of all parties . |
| 2 | In the light of this fact it seems possible to suggest that those authors who subscribe to the former view do so because in later times it would have been only in the rarest of circumstances that one would have held the kadilik after the kazaskerlik . |
| 3 | She had to hold the frame of the door . |
| 4 | I only had to hold the end of the string , while my friend went round the circle , so I thought I 'd have a rest , and so … |
| 5 | The French 95th Regiment which had held the village on the disastrous day of February 25th was withdrawn , decimated , from the battle . |
| 6 | We had held the reception at the melin , and I had conceived the pretty idea of decorating it throughout with wild flowers . |
| 7 | While state-owned and foreign businesses have held the centre of the stage for three decades , tens of thousands of informal sector artisans have been producing a range of goods for use in households , agriculture , transport and construction . |
| 8 | There has been a kind of stalemate in the class struggle which has placed governments in the position of tackling deep-rooted problems with technocratic instruments of strictly limited effectiveness : they have held the line on the balance of payments by means of periodic deflation , which has not really solved anything ; they have periodically checked inflation and attempted to rebuild industrial profitability by means of ad hoc incomes policy but have been unable either to maintain popular support for such policies or to push forward to a comprehensive planning of prices and incomes , investment and consumption . |