Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [pron] hold " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every Tuesday morning you forgot your thimble , every Tuesday afternoon you held out your palm for the cut of the cane . |
| 2 | Hatfield Broad Oak hall we hold it , over at Hatfield Broad Oak cos it 's er nice hall there , you know it 's , you know especially handicapped toilets and everything there it 's beautiful , mm |
| 3 | David Green who held the combined post of Overseas Director and Senior Administrative Officer is leaving us for other employment . |
| 4 | There are a few apparently local men in the ducal retinue , such as the Richard ap Robert ap Ivan Vaughan who was rewarded as a ducal servant in 1478 and who may be the Richard Vaughan who held office on the duke 's Buckinghamshire estates . |
| 5 | There are a few apparently local men in the ducal retinue , such as the Richard ap Robert ap Ivan Vaughan who was rewarded as a ducal servant in 1478 and who may be the Richard Vaughan who held office on the duke 's Buckinghamshire estates . |
| 6 | Mother Francis had taken the bus to their convent in Dublin and spoken to the very difficult Mother Clare who held sway there . |
| 7 | ( Except for one Harvard undergraduate who held the world record , and seemed able to go on springing forever . ) |
| 8 | Mr Spalvins , who heads the Adelaide Steamship group which holds a 20 per cent stake in Bell Resources , called off his legal action to appoint a receiver to the company . |
| 9 | For example , Mr X gives property to Mr Z who holds it absolutely for the infant unmarried son of Mr X. That is a transfer of an asset and a settlement for the purposes of ss663 and 664 ( although the Revenue may not apply ss663 where the income is not paid to the infant ) . |
| 10 | John Spalvins , the head of Adelaide Steamship which holds a key 20 per cent stake in Bell Resources , has asked the Western Australian Supreme Court to appoint a receiver to that company along with Mr Bond 's master company , Bond Corporation , and his private family concern , Dallhold Investments . |
| 11 | After three weeks ' detention in military barracks Daniel Omara Atubu and the 17 others — including three other DP members who hold government posts — were accused of treason . |
| 12 | The judgment for the majority in the Court of Appeal ( Stuart Smith LJ dissenting ) was given by Nourse LJ who held that there had not been a sale " by " description . |
| 13 | In tracing the antiquity of Langridge we find that this manor has come down to Robin Wood via Henry Golding , Barber , Leveson , Whornes , Watson , Melford and Roger Bavent who held it with John de Langereche and finally back to Adam de Bavent during the reign of Edward I. Robin Wood died 14th July 1738 and is buried in Hailing Church . |
| 14 | These findings of fact were given remarkably short shrift by Lord Parker C.J. who held that the conduct could not amount to insulting behaviour . |
| 15 | Eddie Youds made way for sub keeper Clive Baker who held out for Ipswich 's eighth draw . |
| 16 | Pisa , who Rovers visit on December 8 , play in the impressive Arena Garibaldi which holds 26,000 . |
| 17 | She was followed by the Sri Lankan who held a pile of cloth . |
| 18 | On the Coromandel coast of Tamil Nadu in south-east India , the Pallava Dynasty which held sway during the fourth to eighth centuries traces its lineage to Naga ancestors , as do many Royal families in Kashmir in the north of India . |
| 19 | Severn Trent which held the record for disconnections last year , the chief executive , Roderick sold one hundred and thirty seven thousand shares at four hundred and eighty eight P under a share options scheme , and that was after buying them the same day , for two hundred and sixty two P . |
| 20 | On its Edinburgh site it holds a living collection of around 30000 accessions ; a Herbarium containing some 2 million dried plant specimens from a world-wide range ; and a research library holding 75000 volumes books and over 1500 current scientific periodical titles . |
| 21 | David Boren , the Oklahoma Democrat who holds the swing vote on the committee , has already made it clear that he will not vote for the current package , dubbing it ‘ Stimulus 2 ’ , a reference to Mr Clinton 's ill-fated emergency spending package . |
| 22 | She can not bear the prospect of another gloomy Christmas on the Norfolk estate which holds such awful memories . |
| 23 | These were James Geikie , the younger brother of Archibald , and John Young who held a medical degree but had become interested in geology . |
| 24 | The Prince and Princess of Wales came to a lonely hilltop in South Korea to honour the 900 men of the Gloucestershire Regiment who held back the Chinese Army pouring across the Imjin River in January 1951 . |
| 25 | Prestwick 's David Gourlay , jun , and Robert McCulloch never recovered from a disastrous start against the Welsh pair of Stephen Rees and John Price who held a 15-0 six-end lead and went on to win 28-11 . |