Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] hold for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frontiers which have held for over forty years are no longer sacred . |
| 2 | Diana 's paternal grandmother , Countess Spencer was a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth , the Queen Mother , while her maternal grandmother , Ruth , Lady Fermoy is currently one of her Women of the Bedchamber , a position she has held for nearly thirty years . |
| 3 | Two years ago Rosemary was made redundant from a job she had held for 20 years . |
| 4 | By the end of November John Major had succeeded her as leader of the Conservative Party , a post she had held for nearly 16 years , and as Prime Minister , an office she had held since 1979 . |
| 5 | It must be like loving someone from afar only to have them turn to us one day , recognizing the love we have held for them and the secret things we have done for them , and returning our love with their own . |
| 6 | In the North Sea 's Central Field , CCG provide a complete hotel service on four units for Shell Expo , a contract we have held for over three years . |
| 7 | CCG were recently re-awarded the contract at Total Oil Marine in Peterhead , which we have held for six years . |
| 8 | SAN SALVADOR ( Reuter ) — One of two occupations of embassies in San Salvador ended when human rights activists freed 13 hostages they had held for a day at the Costa Rican Embassy and left . |
| 9 | The Government were also planning to set aside the results of another competition that they had held for model barracks and this , along with the revelations over the fate of the Government Offices competition , provoked the Council of the Institute into action . |
| 10 | There had been a bitter dispute in the college ever since a group of young fellows returning after the war had voted many of the old fellows out of the college offices they had held for a long time . |
| 11 | They have to re-apply and pay , by competitive tender , for franchises which they have held for many years . |
| 12 | Even though fewer than three thousand people are now engaged in whaling , directly and indirectly , their loss of support might trigger a loss of confidence among other rural people and jeopardise the LDP 's increasingly frail hold on government ; an office they have held for more than 25 years . |
| 13 | They are the ex-Communist bosses and party officials who are managing to fix up jobs for each other while pushing others out of jobs they have held for years and onto the streets . |
| 14 | Despite losing the seat he has held for nine years Mr Lee managed to increase the Tory vote . |
| 15 | Not only is the seat he has held for the past 15 years , in the Yvelines to the west of Paris , now under serious threat , but so too is the whole political future and his dream of a new social democratic movement . |
| 16 | It turns out that the Heston Club team has lost a title that it had held for the past few years . |
| 17 | In mid-1991 the ALP lost a by-election in Geraldton ( which it had held for more than 70 years ) , winning only 16.7 per cent of the primary vote and recording an unprecedented negative swing of 30 per cent . |
| 18 | In what Kohl described as " a terrible defeat " for the CDU in Baden-Württemberg , Germany 's richest state , the party lost the absolute majority it had held for 20 years . |
| 19 | He chose this occasion for announcing his retirement from the Treasurership which he had held for thirty years . |
| 20 | William was employed in the Maintenance Department on General Service Duties , a position he had held for the past two years . |
| 21 | But it gives me great pleasure to introduce Mark Lennox Boyd , the parliamentary under secretary of state , the foreign and commonwealth office , a position he 's held for some time . |