Example sentences of "still hold [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And 37-year-old Mr Gates , who still holds 28% of the company , is worth some $1 billion . |
| 2 | The fellow still holding Jack by the scruff of the neck grinned and shook his victim with casual contempt . |
| 3 | Morgan came from a family of professional administrators who took their regional colouring from the location of their service , but the family came originally from Wales and one of Morgan 's uncles , Owain ap Cadwgan , still held office in the lordship which gave the Anglicized members of the family their surname . |
| 4 | Morgan came from a family of professional administrators who took their regional colouring from the location of their service , but the family came originally from Wales and one of Morgan 's uncles , Owain ap Cadwgan , still held office in the lordship which gave the Anglicized members of the family their surname . |
| 5 | On balance Voltaire 's maxim that the poor could have no patrie probably still held sound for the vast majority of Belorussian peasants in early NEP . |