Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] hold [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles 's cavalry rallied to hold off the 500 enemy horse which broke through into the rear of his lines and formed a protective corridor down which he , and those of his men still able to fight , slowly withdrew , fiercely resisting . |
| 2 | ( Recall Keynes 's retention of the ‘ real wage equals marginal product ’ principle , so that only the first marginal condition failed to hold in the General Theory model . ) |
| 3 | These were the highest offices Arabs had held in the Israeli government since 1973 , when Abdel-Aziz Zoabi had been Deputy Minister of Health . |
| 4 | In England and Wales the relationship has held throughout the 20th century , and has been particularly strong in the last twenty years … . |
| 5 | TRADE : The gradual improvement in trade has held for the first four months of 1993 according to the Builders Merchants Federation . |
| 6 | Many years ago , at a race relations meeting held in the church hall of a Black church in the American South , I saw a striking picture of the head and shoulders of a Black man on the cross , simply called ‘ Black Christ ’ . |
| 7 | In his second capacity , as heir of Warwick 's public role , Gloucester took over the major royal offices which the earl had held in the north . |
| 8 | In his second capacity , as heir of Warwick 's public role , Gloucester took over the major royal offices which the earl had held in the north . |
| 9 | The frugivores seem to have wider ‘ niches ’ in rain forests than elsewhere , but the converse theory that the habitat lends itself to finer division into niches seems to hold for the carnivores . |
| 10 | Three thousand members of the Sealed Knot have been re-staging the civil war battle in which the city managed to hold off the royalist seige for twenty six days . |
| 11 | It was decided at the Brdo kod Kranja meeting to hold by the end of May a separate referendum in each republic except Slovenia , which had already voted overwhelmingly for independence in a referendum in December 1990 [ see p. 37924 ] . |
| 12 | It 's no coincidence that malaria took hold as the gold rush intensified . |
| 13 | The post of Vice-President , which Cotti had held for the past year , was taken by René Felber ( Social Democratic Party — SPS ) , Minister for Political ( Foreign ) Affairs . |
| 14 | All day long the murky weather had held over the River Thames and as night closed in the February fog swirled out into the narrow cobbled lanes and backstreets of Bermondsey . |