Example sentences of "of [pron] hold the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under arrest on suspicion since October 1990 , the two , both of whom held the rank of general under Communist rule , did not plead guilty when indicted in the Warsaw provincial court on Feb. 11 . |
| 2 | While pursuing his family tree he found two Tyacks amongst those who held land in the Cornish manor of Binnerton , one of whom held the office of manorial reeve . |
| 3 | Some of them held the Koran over the Shah head , to give him its customary protection on his journey , and wailed as the royal party left by helicopter for the airport . |
| 4 | The first gerrymander of the city occurred in 1896 , with the Londonderry improvement Bill ; this created five electoral wards , one of which held the bulk of the city 's Catholics , and enabled the Unionists to have a majority in the others . |
| 5 | One of you hold the receiver and the other one do the numbers . |
| 6 | Except for the matter of who held the weapons , there seemed little distinction between gang members and the scarred , tattooed troopers clad in olive-drab hive tunics hung with amulets . |
| 7 | The pilot survived , and a photograph of him holding the swastika emblem removed from the fin of the Heinkel was taken recently , naturally a most emotional experience . |
| 8 | It took a few minutes for his eyes to adjust to the dimness , and he remained still , blinking hard , making out the man standing directly in front of him holding the shotgun , while on the stairs to his left another person — a woman ? — was also holding what looked like a small pistol on him . |
| 9 | She was so eager to embrace the chance of Ortiz being alive — of him holding the key to Samantha 's freedom — that she shouted the words , rousing the waitress from a slumped reverie by the till . |
| 10 | But the memory of him holding the Jules Rimet trophy triumphantly aloft is etched on the memories of millions . |
| 11 | None of it held the magic of her communication with Friend ; even here , jacked into the shadows , she ached for him but reason told her she would n't find him , long before she stopped looking . |
| 12 | Mill does not explicitly assert this implication of his holding the resemblance doctrine . |
| 13 | And every residential social worker knows that I am not exaggerating when I say that after a death has occurred — often alone or with one of us holding the dying resident 's hand — the family will descend like vultures , demanding a complete inventory of all their belongings , ransacking their personal clothes for valuables , and insisting on receiving all that is left of the petty cash . |