Example sentences of "[vb past] hold for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He chose this occasion for announcing his retirement from the Treasurership which he had held for thirty years . |
| 2 | It was evident , as the trial went on , that Lord Robertson had held for many years a belief amounting to an article of faith that Meehan and Griffiths had committed the Ayr murder , and that so paltry a matter as overwhelming evidence to show that they had n't and that Waddell and McGuinness had , was in no way going to sway him . |
| 3 | One of the members of the campaign , Richard McCance , stood as an openly gay candidate for Labour , winning with a 13 per cent swing a seat which the Tories had held for forty years . |
| 4 | Two years ago Rosemary was made redundant from a job she had held for 20 years . |
| 5 | 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 . |