Example sentences of "who hold the [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed the covenant is important but it is Christ who holds the key to the understanding of baptism and I thought that you would like to hear how your work has helped us to see our way in this respect . |
| 2 | Ian Wright has become a player who holds the key for the two Grahams , George and Taylor . |
| 3 | But it was Arsenal , where Chapman had spent his longest period as manager , who held the limelight in the last years of peace . |
| 4 | Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu , EC Commission President Jacques Delors and Ruud Lubbers , the Netherlands Prime Minister who held the presidency of the EC Council of Ministers for the second half of 1991 , held their first formal EC-Japanese summit in The Hague on July 18 immediately after the London G-7 summit [ see pp. 38321-22 ] . |
| 5 | Hewett , who gave a very difficult chance to Briggs , who ran from cover point , fell to a wonderful catch at mid-on by Mold , who held the ball at the second attempt . |
| 6 | Up at the bar he saw Everett Maltby and , beyond him , Tibbet the Highwayman and beyond him Cicely de Vaulles , who held the fief of the manor house , 250 yards from where he and Donald were drinking . |
| 7 | He was the man who held the drawstrings to the Shah 's own private fortune , amassed at home and abroad since the Shah had found himself penniless in his first exile in 1953 . |
| 8 | Sir Basil Brooke of Madeley , an ironmaster , and George Mynne , a London merchant , who held the monopoly of the sale of wood to make iron , were sentenced to pay £59,039. |
| 9 | Van der Zyl , who had arrived from Germany with a Kindertransport in 1939 , was a rare soul , a liberal who held the respect of the orthodox community . |