Example sentences of "[verb] held [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had burned it himself on the fire he had made against the fruit-garden wall and it might be that no copies of it existed , yet in his mind 's eye it recreated itself , the child for ever stilled , its face a waxen mask , the old doctor haggard with sorrow and lack of sleep , the mirror no breath had misted held in his hand , the parents in each other 's arms . |
| 2 | Death 's mercy has held off all too long , but now I swear to you this is ending . |
| 3 | Behind the scrum — where Ian Hunter will have to prove he is fully recovered after a spate of leg injuries — Rob Andrew , as suspected , has held off the late challenge of Ellwood , though coach Ian McGeechan will certainly want him to do more to compromise the enemy back row . |
| 4 | The resulting debate was the first the parliament has held on green issues . |
| 5 | Bob Murray , Sunderland 's chairman , has stressed again this week that Malcolm Crosby has no guarantee of permanently securing the job he has held on a temporary basis since Denis Smith 's sacking in December . |
| 6 | Brighton 1989 was the most smoothly achieving conference Labour has held since 1963 , and probably since the 1940s . |
| 7 | The decision was particularly sensitive for the Government as P&O 's chairman , Sir Jeffrey Sterling , is a special adviser to the DTI — a post he has held since 1983 . |
| 8 | For the first 11 of those paddling years he never heard of the BCU and it was only through his activities with the Air Training Corps and their involvement with the Devizes to Westminster Race that he got drawn into the position of race Publicity Officer which he has held since the late 70s . |
| 9 | He was also elected IBOA Sports Secretary in that year , a position which he has held since then . |
| 10 | a newly-elected Officer , is Mullingar Area Secretary , a position she has held since 1990 . |
| 11 | His successor as Director of Transport Division has been named as Chris Loughlin , currently Counsellor , Atomic Energy in Tokyo , a post he has held since June 1990 . |
| 12 | The bookmakers have already given their verdict , cutting the odds on Kasparov retaining the title he has held since 1985 , from 9–2 on to 5–1 on . |
| 13 | Today my black-gloved fist grasps the most interesting stick it has held to date . |
| 14 | Each one has held to the view that the Common Market was flawed from its inception , that its membership was not in Britain 's interest , that with respect to trade , immigration policy , defence and foreign policy , her true interests were best upheld as an independent nation trading on the high seas . |
| 15 | Despite losing the seat he has held for nine years Mr Lee managed to increase the Tory vote . |
| 16 | If Edberg wins and goes on to win the final , the London-based Swede will regain the top spot Courier has held for all but six weeks of this year . |
| 17 | Diana 's paternal grandmother , Countess Spencer was a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth , the Queen Mother , while her maternal grandmother , Ruth , Lady Fermoy is currently one of her Women of the Bedchamber , a position she has held for nearly thirty years . |
| 18 | TRADE : The gradual improvement in trade has held for the first four months of 1993 according to the Builders Merchants Federation . |
| 19 | Not only is the seat he has held for the past 15 years , in the Yvelines to the west of Paris , now under serious threat , but so too is the whole political future and his dream of a new social democratic movement . |
| 20 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what recent discussions he has held with representatives of district councils and European Commission officials concerning the implementation of the RENAVAL programme ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 21 | In England and Wales the relationship has held throughout the 20th century , and has been particularly strong in the last twenty years … . |
| 22 | The Court has held in a recent case that the Commission can not ask leading questions which would require the undertaking concerned to admit an infringement of the competition rules , but that otherwise there is no right to silence : the Commission can ask for any information it requires to determine the extent of the infringement . |
| 23 | An English radical commented in 1887 that ‘ the present position of the European world is one in which sheer force holds a larger place than it has held in modern times since the fall of Napoleon ’ . |
| 24 | Of more immediate relevance to the present case the European Court of Human Rights has held in Lingens v. Austria ( 1986 ) 8 E.H.R.R. 407 that the prosecution and conviction , under the Austrian law of criminal defamation , of a magazine publisher in Vienna for printing two articles critical of the Austrian Chancellor was a violation of article 10 . |
| 25 | At the first meeting of the Labour Group he was elected Secretary , a position which he has held until today . |
| 26 | Right , for the next item members will need to note the statements from the joint trade unions liaison committee and the non-domestic rate-payers group and to find item twenty-one two today 's papers , the minutes of the budget review sub-committee , meeting held on the eighteenth of January , agenda item twenty-two brackets one . |
| 27 | But such arguments livened up a drugs meeting held in Washington on May 7th to rethink America 's policies . |
| 28 | Many years ago , at a race relations meeting held in the church hall of a Black church in the American South , I saw a striking picture of the head and shoulders of a Black man on the cross , simply called ‘ Black Christ ’ . |
| 29 | It was five long years since any man — this man — had intimately touched her like this ; five years in which she 'd held at bay these deep torrents of emotion , which would not now be denied . |
| 30 | Over 42,000 visitors perused the 150 stands at the Windows Show held at Olympia , London , in February . |