Example sentences of "[pron] had hold for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two years ago Rosemary was made redundant from a job she had held for 20 years . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It turns out that the Heston Club team has lost a title that it had held for the past few years . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He chose this occasion for announcing his retirement from the Treasurership which he had held for thirty years . |
| 10 | William was employed in the Maintenance Department on General Service Duties , a position he had held for the past two years . |