Example sentences of "had [been] hold for " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the door closed , Zen let out a breath he realized he had been holding for a long time . |
| 2 | This script began with Aunt Lilian 's release from the shabby asylum in which she had been held for decades . |
| 3 | A cheese and wine party had been held for the voluntary emergency wardens , whose services will be required in the event of prolonged power cuts or other major crises . |
| 4 | Early in June 1689 Edinburgh Castle , which had been held for James , surrendered , but Blair Castle , at Blair Atholl in Perthshire , eight miles [ 13 km ] north-west of Pitlochry , had now declared for the Jacobite cause . |
| 5 | He was approached by the family of a 14-year-old who had been held for alleged stone-throwing . |
| 6 | The man had been held for nearly four months in a blacked-out room . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We had been held for three and a half years and we still had no idea when we might be released . |
| 11 | US military officials said that only about 130 people remained in detention out of a total of 5,300 Panamanians who had been held for questioning since the invasion . |
| 12 | On March 11 anti-terrorist forces stormed a house in Istanbul where three hostages had been held for 17 hours by members of the underground Turkish Revolutionary Party ; a police officer and a hostage were killed . |
| 13 | As deputy chief of Sabah 's Institute for Development Studies , whose activities were viewed by the central government as a threat to the integrity of the Malaysian Federation , Ongkili had been held for 59 days under the Internal Security Act on suspicion of carrying out actions prejudicial to national security . |
| 14 | Others still detained at the end of March had been held for almost 10 years . |
| 15 | Many had been held for more than 15 years . |
| 16 | The justice ministry said yesterday , however , that because they had been held for more than two years without trial , they were released . |