Example sentences of "they had hold [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SAN SALVADOR ( Reuter ) — One of two occupations of embassies in San Salvador ended when human rights activists freed 13 hostages they had held for a day at the Costa Rican Embassy and left . |
| 2 | The Government were also planning to set aside the results of another competition that they had held for model barracks and this , along with the revelations over the fate of the Government Offices competition , provoked the Council of the Institute into action . |
| 3 | There had been a bitter dispute in the college ever since a group of young fellows returning after the war had voted many of the old fellows out of the college offices they had held for a long time . |
| 4 | The British had retreated so far from the position they had held at Chicago that Sir William Hildred and Sir Henry Self , in charge of the British delegation , were afraid that they would be overruled by the Air Ministry and BOAC . |
| 5 | At the Aachen assembly in February 828 , Hugh and Matfrid lost the counties of Tours and Orléans which they had held since Charlemagne 's reign . |
| 6 | Robert Hardy was there to re-rehearse the discussions they had held on desolate airfields during the war . |
| 7 | Following the August legislative and presidential elections [ see p. 39064 ] , the new Croatian government was sworn in on Sept. 8 ; seven ministers and one deputy prime minister retained the posts they had held in the previous government . |
| 8 | The completion of a great survey of landownership in 1725–38 paved the way for a high degree of equality in respect of taxation ; the nobility and clergy retained tax privileges only in respect of properties which they could prove they had held before 1584 . |