Example sentences of "[pers pn] have hold [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How many responsibilities of a disparate nature did I have to hold in my mind at the same time ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It does , however , hold the distinction of being the second-longest-running job that I have held to date . |
| 4 | A dubious compliment , perhaps , but a precept I have held to ever since . |
| 5 | a newly-elected Officer , is Mullingar Area Secretary , a position she has held since 1990 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was five long years since any man — this man — had intimately touched her like this ; five years in which she 'd held at bay these deep torrents of emotion , which would not now be denied . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Two years ago Rosemary was made redundant from a job she had held for 20 years . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Well , yes , it can be that easy if you are only moving fairly slowly , but bear in mind that to stop in a reasonable distance you have to hold on the control long enough to raise the nose and apply a braking force . |
| 13 | I can feel the British people moving very fast towards a position we 've held with some electoral drag for a number of years . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | CCG were recently re-awarded the contract at Total Oil Marine in Peterhead , which we have held for six years . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Robert Hardy was there to re-rehearse the discussions they had held on desolate airfields during the war . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Managers still maintain the ‘ negative stance ’ they have held on American equities since September . |
| 26 | They have been reported as spending a great deal of time analysing conversations that they have held with the various Ketamine entities . |
| 27 | They have to re-apply and pay , by competitive tender , for franchises which they have held for many years . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The decision was particularly sensitive for the Government as P&O 's chairman , Sir Jeffrey Sterling , is a special adviser to the DTI — a post he has held since 1983 . |