Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] hold for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frontiers which have held for over forty years are no longer sacred . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | CCG were recently re-awarded the contract at Total Oil Marine in Peterhead , which we have held for six years . |
| 5 | They have to re-apply and pay , by competitive tender , for franchises which they have held for many years . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |