Example sentences of "[pron] hold for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she retired from the RCM in 1948 she went on to run the Violet Melchet Infant Welfare Centre near Sloane Square , a job she held for the next twenty years . |
| 2 | There 's nothing like a long Technical Run to dissipate any euphoria attached to a theatrical production , and that was the effect of the one held for The Hooded Owl on the evening of Sunday , 26th October , 1980 . |
| 3 | Equally uncertain is the length of his stay in Egypt : Ibn Hajar , followed by Taskopruzade , says only that " he returned to Rum and was appointed kadi of Bursa " , which post , as will be shown below , he held for the first time probably from about 795/1392–3 to about 805/1402–3 . |
| 4 | This was very well attended and a committee , with himself as chairman ( a post he held for the next thirty-six years ) , was elected and set to work . |
| 5 | In 1938 he was elected president of the International Youth Hostel Federation , an office which he held for the next twelve years . |