Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun] [pron] hold " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1613 he was transferred to the King 's Bench in which court he held in a case in 1615 ( Courtney v Glanvil [ 1615 ] Cro . |
| 2 | Mr Walsh has led the Getty Museum since 1983 , before which time he held curatorial posts at the Museum of Fine Arts , Boston , and at the Metropolitan in New York . |
| 3 | Ingraham 's Cabinet had been sworn in on Aug. 24 in which Ingraham himself held the Finance and Planning portfolios and Orville Alton Turnquest was appointed Attorney General and also held the Justice and Foreign Affairs portfolios . |
| 4 | In addition there is the charge that the ownership of British companies has now passed to the large institutions — insurance companies , pension funds , unit trusts and investment trusts — who tend to adopt a rather passive approach to those companies whose equity they hold because they are more concerned with their own role as financial intermediaries . |
| 5 | They receive information on it from people they trust , and whose opinion they hold in high regard . |
| 6 | She had left herself the early part of the evening free , and she had just finished dressing when Florian and Nicky dropped in to show her some new photos of the fair South African child who went by the name of Joni Jones , Florian having insisted on the first and the name with which he had replaced his original , paradoxically both more and less ordinary name , having been legalised in both countries whose passports he held , the United Kingdom and South Africa . |
| 7 | The titles themselves do not always carry political power within the places so named , and very often the individual does not live in the city whose title they hold . |
| 8 | A serjeant-at-arms , wearing the royal arms of France on his tabard , gestured to the archers to hoist me into the saddle of a horse whose reins he held . |
| 9 | This little thing whose hand I held could easily be crushed . |
| 10 | I recognised the tall , male figure but the female , whose hand he held , was unknown to me . |
| 11 | The foresters of fee were to be summoned to appear before the king to show by what warrant they held their bailiwicks : likewise everyone who had assumed any liberty in the forest since 1217 , to produce his authority . |
| 12 | There were , however , significant differences between the two divisions : for a start , in 511 the Franks did not control Burgundy , and what lands they held in Aquitaine can hardly have seemed secure with Clovis dead and the Ostrogothic king Theodoric intent on restoring the power of the Visigoths . |
| 13 | You 've got no idea in what regard he holds her . |
| 14 | Whichever way you held them , they would have been quite unable to make the rays of the sun converge . |