Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] hold " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tim Rodber had a much better game that at Murrayfield and won his share of the ball at the tail of the line-outs , but it remained an area where Ireland did hold their own through the excellent play of Neil Francis and Brian Robinson . |
| 2 | Ross did hold all the cards , she acknowledged bitterly . |
| 3 | It was unfortunate , in a way , that Burton did hold it together . |
| 4 | Perhaps to some extent in response to this letter and certainly with the decrees of the Frankish synod of 747 in mind , Archbishop Cuthbert did hold a synod at Clofesho in 747 , attended by all the bishops of the southern province of the Anglo-Saxon Church , in the presence of King Aethelbald . |
| 5 | And indeed the reflections on art by modernists such as Flaubert , Klee , and Auguste Macke did hold that literature and painting should be like music in a quest for the attainment of formal qualities and in a departure from realist notions of representation . |
| 6 | These assumptions may be summarized as follows : ( a ) that the account of how Molla Husrev came to the Muftilik is at least broadly correct ; ( b ) that the Muftilik passed in an uncomplicated manner from Fahreddin Acemi to the Mufti of Istanbul ( though , as has been seen , there is a division of opinion over whether the latter was Abdulkerim or Molla Husrev ) ; ( c ) that Abdulkerim did hold the office of Mufti , that is , the Muftilik of Istanbul ( though again there is disagreement about when he held it ) . |