Example sentences of "[that] [pron] hold the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er previously I 've had , held the license of Three Fishes at Lyddon er , for three years er , previous to that I held the license of the Mason 's Arms , with for three years previous to that and before I 've been connected with the catering and licensed trade from be fifteen . |
| 2 | Er previous to that I held the licence at The Three Fishes at er for three years . |
| 3 | Er previous to that I held the licence for The Mason 's Arms at for three years previous to that and before that I 've been connected with the catering and licence trade from being fifteen . |
| 4 | I drove myself on in the certainty that I held the ‘ trump ’ card behind me , quite literally . |
| 5 | ‘ Important to whom — to Master Peachey ? ’ demanded Anne , thereby suggesting that she held the opinions of their tutor in contempt . |
| 6 | Touch legering means , quite simply , that you hold the line and feel for bites instead of relying on some kind of visual indication . |
| 7 | ‘ Your vassals will come to you for justice , and you can not expect them to accept your judgement if it can be seen that you hold the Yasa in contempt . ’ |
| 8 | Its urgent overall rhythm commands the choreographer to keep the dancers moving forever onwards with greater intensity to the climax , whilst the shorter phrase rhythms give the Chosen Maiden and smaller groups such ways of moving that they hold the audience 's full attention until the fall of the curtain . |
| 9 | The fact is that they hold the uterus open , which means that egg and sperm are allowed to unite , but the pregnancy is doomed because it can not be sustained without the uterus closing . |
| 10 | supervision and they 're used until the head of the femur right , the head of the femur is fixed back into the socket joint and the muscles and ligaments have tightened up so that they hold the bone in place and treatment can go on until they 're about a year the consequences of not treating this condition are quite severe , the child will grow up with a very odd gait . |
| 11 | It is doubtful if the claim of the kings of Burgundy and Italy to bear the title emperor had more substance than the fact that they held the north of Italy and the chief routes over the Alps and were therefore in a position to put pressure on the pope . |
| 12 | ‘ They insisted that they held the meeting at a place of their choosing and only told us at the last minute . |
| 13 | Our journeys on the whiteboard suggest that it holds the key to our concepts of beauty . |
| 14 | ‘ So here the wisdom of the common law lies in this , that it holds the breach of duty to be , not the carelessness in manufacture , nor the putting into circulation of a faulty machine , but the wrongful infliction of damage : and the time accordingly only runs from that date . |
| 15 | that it can be appreciated even by young children ; 2. that it is memorable ; 3. that it holds the attention . |
| 16 | For a second I thought he was going to hit me , but then he reached into his jacket pocket and brought out a wallet that he unfolded and thrust towards me , giving me just enough time to see that he held the rank of chief inspector , one of the highest ranks in the Bahamian police force , then the wallet was snapped shut and Deacon Billingsley moved to stand very close to me , so close that I could smell the cigar smoke on his breath . |
| 17 | The sort of affair that would not be tolerated now that he held the stewardship of the Service . |
| 18 | Bede presents Aethelred as abdicating to become a monk in 704 after a reign of thirty years ( HE V , 24 ) , but the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle A ( s.a. 704 ) states that he held the kingdom for twenty-nine years , that is , he died in his thirtieth year . |
| 19 | Taskopruzade 's statement about the three posts is ambiguous in this respect , although his assertion that Molla Fenari was unable to make fair copies of a number of his works because of his duties as kadi , muderris and Mufti might be taken to imply that he held the posts simultaneously . |
| 20 | Taskopruzade does not mention any successor to Tursun Fakih , nor does he seem to describe the activities of any other scholar of the relevant period in such a way as to suggest that he held the office of Mufti . |
| 21 | Taskopruzade includes in his account , however , between Molla Husrev 's appointments on the death of Hizir Bey and his departure for Bursa , a considerable amount of material more or less related to Molla Husrev 's activities in these capacities , enough to make it improbable in the extreme that he held the offices for so short a period . |
| 22 | The very fact that he held the parliamentarians partially responsible for the RPF 's demise suggests that he had not assumed in June 1951 that the Rassemblement was dead . |
| 23 | Stoute has stated that Cordoba 's Guineas odds are absurdly low , but there is no doubt that he holds the colt in extremely high regard . |
| 24 | In that case , delivery occurs when the third party attorns , i.e. acknowledges to the buyer that he holds the goods on his behalf , section 29(4) . |