Example sentences of "had [be] hold for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But whereas they had been held for just a few years by his grandfather and father , they were in royal hands for thirty-one of the last forty years of Edward III 's reign , from 1337 to 1360 and then from 1369 onwards to the end of the century . |
| 2 | The man had been held for nearly four months in a blacked-out room . |
| 3 | In some cases that were drawn to the attention of the Juridical and Human Rights Commission of the main Protestant organization ( CEPAD ) , people had been held for as long as three months without being interrogated . |
| 4 | Others still detained at the end of March had been held for almost 10 years . |
| 5 | At the end of December 1980 , the returns to the Committee on Jail Reform indicated that almost 7,000 ( 8 per cent ) of the 92,000 undertrials had been in gaol for over one year , and 2,500 of these had been held for more than two years . |
| 6 | Many had been held for more than 15 years . |
| 7 | The justice ministry said yesterday , however , that because they had been held for more than two years without trial , they were released . |