Example sentences of "[adv] held [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Exports had doubled from 1700 to 1740 to a value of £1,164,000 which generally held steady until the 1760s . |
2 | To a lesser extent , that also applied to Mr Derek Foster , the Labour chief whip who easily held on to the Bishop Auckland seat . |
3 | In 1988 he crushed a vain attempt to challenge his leadership by the veteran Tony Benn , with an 8 to 1 majority , while Roy Hattersley comfortably held on to the deputy leadership . |
4 | What has all this grand talk about moral universals got to do with the micro-scale empirical sociology which I originally held up as the characteristic of my kind of social anthropology ? |
5 | Another hundred yards , and then held again at the Kingsclere-Burghfield Common crossing . |