Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] hold [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1938 he was elected president of the International Youth Hostel Federation , an office which he held for the next twelve years . |
| 2 | After lighting the gas jets , he also lit a candle which he held above the young man 's face . |
| 3 | His power there was centred on the great castle at Trim , which he held at the king 's pleasure . |
| 4 | In the following years many proposals were made for the construction of a railway between Welshpool and Llanfair Caereinion but it was not until 1898 that a company was formed to build the present line and the then Earl of Powis became its Chairman , an office which he held until the grouping in 1922 . |
| 5 | Barthelsson was over the line at the start , put in his 720° turn and still beat Österlund to the first mark , a lead which he held until the end . |
| 6 | He returned to public life in 1989 during the " velvet revolution " and was elected Speaker of the federal parliament in December 1989 , a post which he held until the June 1992 elections , which he contested as the leading candidate of the small Social Democratic Party in Slovakia [ see p. 38944 ] . |
| 7 | By the time these cases were heard Mettingham had replaced the disgraced Thomas de Weyland [ q.v. ] as chief justice of the Common Bench , a post which he held from the beginning of 1290 until the time of his death . |
| 8 | what they hold on the shoulders |