Example sentences of "[pers pn] had hold [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For so long I resisted any change to my hairstyle — I thought I knew what suited me — I was entrenched in an image that I had held from years gone by . |
| 2 | In the face of misfortunes and petty irritations , of death and daily pain , and the loss of love , she had held to her expectations and they had never let her down . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The British had retreated so far from the position they had held at Chicago that Sir William Hildred and Sir Henry Self , in charge of the British delegation , were afraid that they would be overruled by the Air Ministry and BOAC . |
| 10 | At the Aachen assembly in February 828 , Hugh and Matfrid lost the counties of Tours and Orléans which they had held since Charlemagne 's reign . |
| 11 | Robert Hardy was there to re-rehearse the discussions they had held on desolate airfields during the war . |
| 12 | Following the August legislative and presidential elections [ see p. 39064 ] , the new Croatian government was sworn in on Sept. 8 ; seven ministers and one deputy prime minister retained the posts they had held in the previous government . |
| 13 | The completion of a great survey of landownership in 1725–38 paved the way for a high degree of equality in respect of taxation ; the nobility and clergy retained tax privileges only in respect of properties which they could prove they had held before 1584 . |
| 14 | It turns out that the Heston Club team has lost a title that it had held for the past few years . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The National Democratic Party ( NDP ) , a DLP splinter group formed in February 1989 by former Finance Minister Richie Haynes , failed to retain any of the four seats which it had held at the dissolution . |
| 18 | Moreover , in Commission of the European Communities v. Hellenic Republic ( Case 305/87 ) [ 1989 ] E.C.R. 1461 , 1478 , para. 21 , the court pointed out that , as it had held on several occasions ( see , inter alia , Commission of the European Communities v. Italian Republic ( Case 63/86 ) [ 1988 ] E.C.R. 29 ) , the prohibition of all discrimination on grounds of nationality set out in article 52 of the E.E.C . |
| 19 | In the event the opposition 's share of the seats increased from 37 to 53 , but Semangat " 46 won only eight seats , compared with the 12 it had held before the election . |
| 20 | The Social Democratic Party ( SPÖ ) led by mayor Helmut Zilk lost the absolute majority of votes which it had held in Vienna since the end of the Second World War , although , because of the complex proportional system of apportioning seats , it retained an absolute majority of seats . |
| 21 | On Nov. 29 the new Prime Minister carried out a large-scale reorganization of the ( now all-male ) Cabinet , retaining Hurd as Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary and appointing Norman Lamont as Chancellor of the Exchequer , while Heseltine became Environment Secretary ( a post which he had held under Thatcher in 1979-83 ) and two ministers entered the Cabinet for the first time : Ian Lang and David Mellor . |
| 22 | He chose this occasion for announcing his retirement from the Treasurership which he had held for thirty years . |
| 23 | William was employed in the Maintenance Department on General Service Duties , a position he had held for the past two years . |
| 24 | Mah Bow Tan was confirmed as Minister for Communications , a post he had held on an acting basis since July . |
| 25 | In fact he won three , but lost the record he had held since 1979 for the heaviest twin berries . |
| 26 | This explains why Clarence was forced to disgorge the Neville lands in Wales , which he had held since 1471 , in favour of his brother . |
| 27 | In December 1958 , one month after Khruschev began to make verbal threats against the Western position in Berlin , the SPD 's Willy Brandt was re-elected Mayor of the city , a post he had held since 1957 . |
| 28 | Mann considered these objective to be so important that in January 1897 he gave up the secretaryship of the Independent Labour Party which he had held since 1894 to devote himself to the continental agitation , especially in Rotterdam , Antwerp and Hamburg , which had been started in the previous year . |
| 29 | In 1950 , because of pressure of work on Grove , Blom gave up the important editorship of Music & Letters , which he had held since 1937 . |
| 30 | In resigning the South Bronx district seat which he had held since 1978 , Garcia followed the example of fellow Democrat Mario Biaggi who had resigned from the House of Representatives in August 1988 after being convicted in connection with the Wedtech affair [ ibid . ] . |