Example sentences of "had held the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The TV playback showed that Southall had held the ball for 13 seconds , although it did not seem as long at the time . |
| 2 | I remembered how my wife had held the girls in her arms , and how she had smiled at me when we looked at them . |
| 3 | The French 95th Regiment which had held the village on the disastrous day of February 25th was withdrawn , decimated , from the battle . |
| 4 | He had held the title for a year now , since just after his twenty-second birthday . |
| 5 | For the Crown he made the two tilt-yard towers at Greenwich from 1516 and on 12 September 1519 received the office of king 's master mason jointly with Vertue , who had held the position since 1510 . |
| 6 | Bill had held the position for two years and saw the team achieve two of their best-ever results , sevenths in the last two World Championships . |
| 7 | Elected by the FEE General Assembly last December , he took over from Edouard Salustro of France who had held the position for two years . |
| 8 | Among those excluded by the provision was Bongo 's son , Ali Bongo , aged 33 , who had held the portfolio of Foreign Affairs , Co-operation and Francophone Affairs . |
| 9 | Archminster had held the account for 18 months |
| 10 | But who had held the syringe over Rose , and why ? |
| 11 | This was the period following Galileo 's move from Padua , where he had held the chair of mathematics since 1592 , to Florence where he had been appointed philosopher and mathematician to Cosimo II , grand duke of Tuscany . |
| 12 | It was agreed that only ten people should tramp round the tiny cottage at a time ; the remainder were forced to mingle with the morning shoppers and then to walk on to the old St Mary 's Chapel , which once had held the shrine of Our Lady of Bradstow and to which passing ships would lower their sails in honour . |
| 13 | Giving graphic details of the 11-hour stand-off , Capt Goebel said the hijacker had held the gun to his head or that of his co-pilot for most of the flight . |
| 14 | Giving graphic details of the 11-hour stand-off , Capt Goebel said Demeke had held the gun to his head or that of his co-pilot for most of the flight , but they had been able to build a rapport with him . |
| 15 | Thomas lord Stanley had held the stewardship of Halton since 1461 . |
| 16 | Thomas lord Stanley had held the stewardship of Halton since 1461 . |
| 17 | Vander Zalm , a Dutch immigrant who made his fortune from a garden nursery business in Vancouver and who had held the premiership since 1986 [ see p. 37940 ] , was one of the country 's most colourful politicians . |
| 18 | Thomas son of Adam , who had held the manor of Hutton-in-the-Forest by the serjeanty of keeping the king 's hay of Plumpton in Inglewood Forest , had by 1244 alienated the manor entirely to several tenants . |
| 19 | Mr Hill , a joint master of the Aylesbury Vale Hunt , had held the reins of his wife 's horse Max after it had landed on a five barred gate during a hunt . |
| 20 | ( A friend had held the camera for that bit . ) |
| 21 | Standing beside the rails at the junction at Pot'ma she had held the baby of an exhausted mother , and she had smiled at him . |
| 22 | Biju Patnaik of Janata Dal was sworn in as Chief Minister on March 5 , replacing Hemandanda Biswal , who had held the post for Congress ( I ) since early December . |
| 23 | Gen. Rafael Antonio Villamariona was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force in place of Gen. Juan Rafael Bustillo who had held the post for a decade according to the Latin American Weekly Report of Feb. 1 , 1990 . |
| 24 | Ramphal , first elected in 1975 , had held the post for three successive terms . |
| 25 | On March 7 Jean-Luc Dehaene was appointed Prime Minister in place of Wilfried Martens , who had held the post for nearly 13 years as the head of nine different coalitions . |
| 26 | Also at the meeting , Zhao Ziyang , who had held the post of Premier temporarily since the downfall of Hu Yaobang , was appointed to the position of Party General Secretary . |
| 27 | Yilmaz had held the post of Foreign Minister since December 1987 [ see p. 35910 ] , having held various other Cabinet posts since the Motherland Party ( Anatavan Partisi — ANAP ) came to office in December 1983 . |
| 28 | President Ochirbat , 48 , had held the post of Presidium Chair only since March [ see p. 37317 ] . |
| 29 | Masri , 49 , the country 's first Palestinian-born Prime Minister since 1972 , who had held the post of Foreign Minister intermittently for five years , most recently in the previous government [ see p. 37976 ] , was widely known for his liberal , pro-Western views . |
| 30 | Kaysone had held the post of Premier since the foundation of the LPDR in 1975 . |