Example sentences of "[verb] hold [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bob Murray , Sunderland 's chairman , has stressed again this week that Malcolm Crosby has no guarantee of permanently securing the job he has held on a temporary basis since Denis Smith 's sacking in December . |
| 2 | The Court has held in a recent case that the Commission can not ask leading questions which would require the undertaking concerned to admit an infringement of the competition rules , but that otherwise there is no right to silence : the Commission can ask for any information it requires to determine the extent of the infringement . |
| 3 | Having held off a prolonged second-half challenge from Leicester in Saturday 's cup semi-final , the Quins later learned the Rugby Football Union had rejected Orrell 's appeal for the league game to be switched to Easter Saturday , when Lancashire meet Cornwall in the ADT county final at Twickenham . |
| 4 | Schmeichel failed to hold onto a weak 19th minute shot by Chelsea 's Steve Clarke , and Gavin Peacock prodded home the rebound for his third goal of the season . |
| 5 | It really took hold in a few hours . |
| 6 | The connection between the circumstance and the smell was fundamentally unlike the connection which we take to hold between a causal circumstance and its effect . |
| 7 | There had been a bitter dispute in the college ever since a group of young fellows returning after the war had voted many of the old fellows out of the college offices they had held for a long time . |
| 8 | Sixty-three legionnaires had held off a Mexican force of 2,000 soldiers for a whole day , at the end of which five legionnaires had been left alive ; these five , thirsty , hungry and out of ammunition , had bayonet charged the Mexicans . |