Example sentences of "which [pers pn] hold [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I say ‘ Prostitution is on the increase ’ I express my belief that it is on the increase , but what I put upon the mat for discussion is not my holding the belief , but rather the state of affairs , which I hold to be actual , but which others may not , of prostitution being on the increase . |
| 2 | Again , on 5 June 1286 , Edward performed homage to Philip IV of France , using the words : ‘ I become your man for the lands which I hold from you on this side of the sea according to the form of peace made between our ancestors ’ . |
| 3 | On pain of loss of temporalities which you hold from us , we strongly inhibit you in the council now called at Lambeth from presuming to attempt anything to our prejudice , or that of our realm , or against us or our rights which our predecessors , kings of England , enjoyed by ancient and approved custom , or to assent to any such move . |
| 4 | ’ — Then for your service to me thus far I will confirm you in the offices and estates which you held from Nogai . ’ |
| 5 | Well a ponch er it 's sort of made of wood , and got a got a handle crosswise which you held in one half of it in each hand , it had a stem , and on the on the ponch itself was a sort of er piece of wood that had been er cut out to have about four , I think it was four , legs on this , you see and you used to stand over the ponch and |
| 6 | The regulator consists of 3 parts a first stage which clips onto the tank a hose and the second stage which you held in your mouth . |
| 7 | But the welfare of home students , as they were known after 1889 , was her particular concern ; in 1894 she was appointed by the AEW as their principal , a post which she held on a voluntary basis until 1921 . |
| 8 | After entering I found it came from a little sister of those drowned Children , that was singing to a bundle of clouts , rudely put together to look like a Doll , which she held in her arms . |
| 9 | She was so terribly alarmed that the egg which she held in her hand fell into the basin . |
| 10 | In March 1886 she became a columnist for the Illustrated London News , writing the Ladies ' Notes , a post which she held until 1918 . |
| 11 | We have felt obliged to play up those special things which we alone do and to keep quiet about those which we hold in common . |
| 12 | Ultimately the attractiveness of MINIS-type systems to public sector managers lies in the comprehensive picture which they can provide of organizational activities , and also in the potential which they hold for decentralization within departments . |
| 13 | In the first of these a group of libraries cooperate because of a factor or factors which they hold in common — usually their subject field or their geographical location . |
| 14 | The Evangelical party will perhaps continue to exalt their hero as partially as parties always do — but the members of it will act thus only so far as they are possessed by party spirit , rather than by the pure spirit of the doctrines which they hold in common with their so-called Catholic opponents , whom adversaries style popish . |
| 15 | His support of plots against Beaton in 1544 and 1545 came to fruition in May 1546 , when a group of Fifeshire lairds headed by Norman Leslie , son of the earl of Rothes , broke into the episcopal castle at St Andrews , murdered the cardinal and slung his body over the castle walls ; the murderers , henceforth known as the Castalians , barricaded themselves inside the castle , which they held as a Protestant stronghold . |
| 16 | Only two shares were issued to the applicant and Miss Bird , which they held as nominees . |
| 17 | In 1604 he was appointed , jointly with Robert Bowyer , keeper of the records in the Tower of London , an office which they held until 1612 . |
| 18 | In 1462 , under Edward IV , he received the life grant of the office of engraver to the Tower mint and all other mints in England and Calais , which he held for 20 years before relinquishing it in favour of his nephew , John Shaa . |
| 19 | In 1938 he was elected president of the International Youth Hostel Federation , an office which he held for the next twelve years . |
| 20 | The most versatile stone in his long catalogue was sapphire , which he held to be good for protecting the limbs from injury and the wearer from fraud , as well as for overcoming envy , averting terror , liberating from imprisonment , purifying the eyes , cooling the body and not least for the convenient property of making the wearer beloved of god as well as of men . |
| 21 | Here too they follow Richards , who used the same term to characterize the ‘ bringing in of the opposite , the complementary impulse ’ ( Richards 1967 : 197 ) , which he held to be characteristic of all great poetry . |
| 22 | After lighting the gas jets , he also lit a candle which he held above the young man 's face . |
| 23 | They had sat opposite each other in a compartment crowded with Able Seamen , he watching the darkening fields flying outside the window and Bunny staring down at a single sheet of notepaper , pale blue in colour , which he held on his jigging knee and from whose fold poked a sprig of crab apple in bloom . |
| 24 | I stared at him because he sounded so cold , but he was sitting looking down at the glass which he held on his knees and I could n't see his face . |
| 25 | His power there was centred on the great castle at Trim , which he held at the king 's pleasure . |
| 26 | Her eyes travelled from his face down to the mug which he held in his two hands . |
| 27 | Sir Jonathan Cope presented him as rector of Drayton , Banbury , which he held in plurality with Horsenden till his death . |
| 28 | For , as with the apple tree leaves , Johnny could see only those things from her world which he held within his hands . |
| 29 | In 1972 he was appointed chief executive ( second permanent secretary ) to set up the Property Services Agency at the Department of the Environment and held that position until his appointment as chairman of the Crown Agents for Overseas Governments and Administrations in 1974 , which he held until 1978 . |
| 30 | In 1929 he won his Woodvale seat which he held until his death in 1949 . |