Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had hold the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this time Carlos Sainz , who had held the lead since Tuesday , came third in a Toyota . |
| 2 | But who had held the syringe over Rose , and why ? |
| 3 | Thomas son of Adam , who had held the manor of Hutton-in-the-Forest by the serjeanty of keeping the king 's hay of Plumpton in Inglewood Forest , had by 1244 alienated the manor entirely to several tenants . |
| 4 | Elected by the FEE General Assembly last December , he took over from Edouard Salustro of France who had held the position for two years . |
| 5 | Also at the meeting , Zhao Ziyang , who had held the post of Premier temporarily since the downfall of Hu Yaobang , was appointed to the position of Party General Secretary . |
| 6 | They appointed Simpkin arbitrarily , ignoring the incumbent , English school teacher Jim Rowark , a man who had held the hot spot for five seasons . |
| 7 | For the Crown he made the two tilt-yard towers at Greenwich from 1516 and on 12 September 1519 received the office of king 's master mason jointly with Vertue , who had held the position since 1510 . |
| 8 | He replaced Madhavsinh Solanki of Congress ( I ) , who had held the post since early December 1989 [ see p. 37125 ] . |
| 9 | Sunderlal Patwa was sworn in as the BJP Chief Minister on March 5 , replacing Shyama Charan Shukla of Congress ( I ) who had held the post since early December [ ibid . ] . |
| 10 | Biju Patnaik of Janata Dal was sworn in as Chief Minister on March 5 , replacing Hemandanda Biswal , who had held the post for Congress ( I ) since early December . |
| 11 | Gen. Rafael Antonio Villamariona was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force in place of Gen. Juan Rafael Bustillo who had held the post for a decade according to the Latin American Weekly Report of Feb. 1 , 1990 . |
| 12 | Fernando Manfredo assumed the post of acting administrator of the Panama Canal on Jan. 1 , 1990 , in succession to Gen. ( retd ) Dennis P. McAuliffe , who had held the post since 1979 . |
| 13 | Lt.-Gen. ( retd ) R. S. Dyal , hitherto Lt.-Governor of Pondicherry , was appointed Lt.-Governor of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands on Jan. 31 , 1990 , replacing Romesh Bhandari who had held the post since December 1989 . |
| 14 | She replaced Günther Maleuda who had held the post since November 1989 [ see p. 37025 ] . |
| 15 | A constitutional amendment was approved abolishing the State Council and providing for the election of a State President ; on an interim basis , Bergmann-Pohl assumed the post of acting head of state on April 9 ( replacing Manfred Gerlach who had held the post since December 1989 — see p. 37108 ) . |
| 16 | In Kazakhstan on April 24 the new Supreme Soviet re-elected as its Chairman the Kazakh CP first secretary Nursultan Nazarbayev , who had held the post since Feb. 22 . |
| 17 | The two key economic portfolios went to Georgios Souflias , who had held the Finance portfolio in the previous government , and Yannis Palaiokrassas , the ND campaign manager . |
| 18 | His Democratic opponent in the election in October would be Bennet Johnston who had held the seat for 18 years . |
| 19 | Grigorios Farakos was unanimously elected to replace Florakis , who had held the post since 1973 [ see also p. 26781 ] . |
| 20 | She replaced Gordon McLennan , who had held the post since 1975 [ see p. 27068 ] . |
| 21 | The departure of Bra Kanon , who had held the post since 1977 , had been expected because of difficulties affecting the cocoa and coffee sectors . |
| 22 | He replaced Samson Kisekka , who had held the post since Museveni took power in January 1986 . |
| 23 | Lunda , who had held the office for under 11 months , said he was stepping down " to allow the head of state to set up an enlarged transitional government " . |
| 24 | His predecessor , Diego Tamariz , who had held the post since 1988 , was dismissed on March 12 after a National Congress hearing had found him responsible for the " incorrect and illegal " handling of the country 's oil and electrification affairs . |
| 25 | Vander Zalm , a Dutch immigrant who made his fortune from a garden nursery business in Vancouver and who had held the premiership since 1986 [ see p. 37940 ] , was one of the country 's most colourful politicians . |
| 26 | Rev. Robert Runcie , who had held the post since 1980 [ see p. 29924 ] . |
| 27 | It was announced on May 22 that Sheikh Abbas Mousawi , a noted hardliner , had been elected as secretary-general of Hezbollah in place of Sheikh Sebhi Tofayli , who had held the post since 1989 . |
| 28 | Among those excluded by the provision was Bongo 's son , Ali Bongo , aged 33 , who had held the portfolio of Foreign Affairs , Co-operation and Francophone Affairs . |
| 29 | Masri , 49 , the country 's first Palestinian-born Prime Minister since 1972 , who had held the post of Foreign Minister intermittently for five years , most recently in the previous government [ see p. 37976 ] , was widely known for his liberal , pro-Western views . |
| 30 | The seat had become vacant upon the death on May 27 of Eric Heffer [ see p. 38200 ] , who had held the seat for Labour since 1964 [ see p. 38200 ] and had won 64.2 per cent of the vote at the 1987 election . |