Example sentences of "[pers pn] had hold the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to hold the door open for a woman with a pram , and then the whole population of Chetwynd poured out in a body , and I was still holding it . |
| 2 | She had to hold the frame of the door . |
| 3 | Standing beside the rails at the junction at Pot'ma she had held the baby of an exhausted mother , and she had smiled at him . |
| 4 | She had learned when she had held the first costume up against her , that her mother had been small , hardly , it seemed , an inch or two taller than Ellie was now . |
| 5 | She said she had held the document back for so long because she was afraid it would re-open old wounds for my mother and because she felt sure it was better for us not to know what it contained . ’ |
| 6 | Ever since she had held the baby she had found herself treating the doll in the same way . |
| 7 | When the mothers were taking the kids across the road , you had to hold the traffic up . |
| 8 | ‘ He discoursed about his understanding of the Church and he said that we had to hold the high and the low together but for his part his sympathies were with the high . |
| 9 | Every time the express went by , we had to hold the windows in . |
| 10 | We had held the reception at the melin , and I had conceived the pretty idea of decorating it throughout with wild flowers . |
| 11 | Perhaps it was too small a bed because it had to hold the ghosts of Mo Magill and Jenny Maxim 's dead wife as well . |
| 12 | He had to hold the telephone away from his ear . |
| 13 | He had to hold the Control at all costs and discourage the enemy from any further attempt to rush his position . |
| 14 | At the moment of extinction , he had held the young man 's mind up like a pierced coconut and let all the thin milk trickle out . |
| 15 | For a long time he had held the envelope in his chubby fingers and close to his face . |
| 16 | He had held the paper as tightly as an old woman holds a rosary . |
| 17 | The Pauline Annalist reported a rumour that Arundel confessed to having plotted the death of the queen , but it is more likely that Mortimer saw him as a territorial rival in the Marches of Wales , where he had held the lordship of Chirk since the confiscations after Boroughbridge . |
| 18 | This was the period following Galileo 's move from Padua , where he had held the chair of mathematics since 1592 , to Florence where he had been appointed philosopher and mathematician to Cosimo II , grand duke of Tuscany . |
| 19 | As he had held the highest office of state the inhabitants of Edfu regarded him as a great man and therefore after his death honoured him as a god , making his tomb a holy place . |
| 20 | He had held the title for a year now , since just after his twenty-second birthday . |
| 21 | He had held the post only since January . |
| 22 | Lee was confirmed as chairman of the Kuomintang at its 13th national congress held in early July 1988 [ see p. 36871 ] ; he had held the post in an acting capacity since Chiang 's death . |
| 23 | He had held the post only since a December 1990 congress when the party had been declared independent of the CPSU [ see p. 37920 ] . |
| 24 | He had held the post since January 1985 . |