Example sentences of "[pers pn] have hold [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , yes , it can be that easy if you are only moving fairly slowly , but bear in mind that to stop in a reasonable distance you have to hold on the control long enough to raise the nose and apply a braking force . |
| 2 | Following the August legislative and presidential elections [ see p. 39064 ] , the new Croatian government was sworn in on Sept. 8 ; seven ministers and one deputy prime minister retained the posts they had held in the previous government . |
| 3 | They have been reported as spending a great deal of time analysing conversations that they have held with the various Ketamine entities . |
| 4 | For the first 11 of those paddling years he never heard of the BCU and it was only through his activities with the Air Training Corps and their involvement with the Devizes to Westminster Race that he got drawn into the position of race Publicity Officer which he has held since the late 70s . |
| 5 | Not only is the seat he has held for the past 15 years , in the Yvelines to the west of Paris , now under serious threat , but so too is the whole political future and his dream of a new social democratic movement . |
| 6 | It turns out that the Heston Club team has lost a title that it had held for the past few years . |
| 7 | The National Democratic Party ( NDP ) , a DLP splinter group formed in February 1989 by former Finance Minister Richie Haynes , failed to retain any of the four seats which it had held at the dissolution . |
| 8 | In the event the opposition 's share of the seats increased from 37 to 53 , but Semangat " 46 won only eight seats , compared with the 12 it had held before the election . |
| 9 | William was employed in the Maintenance Department on General Service Duties , a position he had held for the past two years . |
| 10 | Mihnea Marmeliuc , who returned as Minister of Labour and Social Security ( a post he had held in the NSF provisional government in January-June 1990 ) , immediately after his nomination was disowned by his National Liberal Party ( the second largest opposition party in parliament after the Hungarian Democratic Union ) ; the NLP had called a week before the reshuffle for the creation of an all-party coalition government . |
| 11 | Er I would , I would echo that , that we feel that they money has been paid in for work or services done by the employer and by the er fund members themselves have contributed and I do n't think it belongs to either of those parties in any more , it 's held by the trustees to pay pensions , if for nothing it 's been put there just to pay pensions , it 's not a piggy bank for er for companies to draw out with the with their tame er trustees allowing it , it it 's money the trustees hold in in trust and I believe that 's the law at the moment and er I I think we would like to see that confirmed in any new law . |
| 12 | erm on the question of the board all is answerable to the general meeting of the er company it 's held in the Autumn of each year . |
| 13 | sort this out sensibly , the police overreact , they arrest him at midnight in the clothes he stands up in , they take him down to the police station , he 's held in the police station for about thirty six hours or so , something like that , er instead of being brought before the court straight away and released on bail straight away , they , they keep him in custody where he 's never been before , er and Madam he 's then released on bail but court imposes silly conditions on him , conditions that he should n't go back to his home address , he ca n't go and see his girlfriend , he ca n't go and see his children , er , and Madam it seems to be an abuse of the process really of the court to behave in this way . |