Example sentences of "he [was/were] hold [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was to hold onto the window sash while cleaning . |
| 2 | Sir John Wolfenden , the then vice-chancellor of Reading University , was chosen to be its Chairman , a job which he was to hold for the three years that the Committee took to produce its Report . |
| 3 | In July 1568 , he was appointed to the Commission of Sewers , along with Lord Cobham , a position he was to hold for many years and which was to make him a close friend of Lord Cobham until Cobham 's death . |
| 4 | One of his proudest moments came when he was appointed provost of the Royal Burgh of Selkirk , a position he was to hold for seven years , He was the town 's last official provost before regionalisation . |
| 5 | A year later he became the general secretary , a position he was to hold until 1871 . |
| 6 | In 1823 he was appointed curator of the museum of the Bristol Institution , a post he was to hold until his death . |
| 7 | He spilled the large container of orange juice he was holding across the bar towards the spot where X was seated . |
| 8 | A guardian would be assessed on the stock he was holding on behalf of his wards , as was Francis Brown of Little Casterton , Rutland , in respect of his four brothers and sisters . |
| 9 | He was holding by its middle a cane with a meerschaum handle , and he looked gravely distressed , as well as naturally grave . |
| 10 | MANSUR MUHAMMAD AHMED RAJIH : a 34-year-old writer and poet , he was held without charge or trial for over a year before being sentenced to death in 1984 after an unfair trial on false criminal charges . |
| 11 | He was held without charge or trial for six months and then released . |
| 12 | He was held at gunpoint , handcuffed , blindfolded and forced into the boot of Major Maxim 's car . |
| 13 | In practice the authority of an individual metropolitan was influenced by political factors , such as the favour in which he was held at court . |
| 14 | Following violent protest riots in the mainly English-speaking North-West Province , centred on Fru Ndi 's home town of Bamenda , about 150 gendarmes were said to have surrounded the opposition leader 's house , where he was held with over 100 relatives and followers . |
| 15 | He was held for four hours and beaten with a truncheon . |
| 16 | Meanwhile he was held for seventeen months in prison in Oxford , where a debate was staged in which Cranmer and bishops Latimer and Ridley were pitted against selected scholars from Oxford and Cambridge . |
| 17 | His official car was intercepted in the centre of Vilnius , and he was taken in handcuffs to the OMON headquarters outside the city , where he was held for questioning for nearly 12 hours before being released . |
| 18 | Miles , who has already conceded half a point to Ian Rogers , had a lucky escape when he was held to a draw by the New Zealand champion Martin Dreyer . |
| 19 | In 1986 Mr Leon Brittan , the Home Secretary , resigned because he was held to be responsible for the leak of a letter containing the opinions of a law officer about the actions of the Secretary for Defence , Mr Michael Heseltine . |
| 20 | Big-punching Wharton is also free of the agony in his right hand that plagued him for months and reduced him to a one-armed fighter when he was held to a draw by Londoner Lou Gent in November . |
| 21 | Thus , where a landlord was entitled to enter the demised property to carry out such improvements , additions and alterations as he considered reasonable , he was held to be entitled to demolish and reconstruct all the existing buildings comprising the demised property without putting an end to the tenancy ( Price v Esso Petroleum Co Ltd ( 1980 ) 255 EG 243 ) . |
| 22 | As he was held between the conflicting pressures of wind and water , so he was caught between the desire to reach Mariana and offer her comfort and the need to husband his remaining strength — but he knew that the husbanding of his strength was paramount if they were to survive . |
| 23 | Bernard Fall says very precisely that he was held from 28 August 1942 to 16 September 1943 . |
| 24 | Harry led our team by example — although perhaps what some of his colleagues needed was a skipper who could also drive or cajole them to better things — but it was a mark of the respect in which he was held by Palace supporters that his well-deserved Benefit in 1953–54 was so well attended . |
| 25 | John Stanley 's extemporizations on the organ of Temple Church in London were attended by Handel , and yet the esteem in which he was held by his contemporaries has failed to gain him the reputation that he should enjoy today . |
| 26 | However , connections were unfortunate to come up against a fine-tuned Remittance Man last March and , although Katabatic ran a cracker , mounting a ferocious challenge up the final climb , he was held by a length at the line . |
| 27 | The couple was first drawn to the work of Magritte by the high regard in which he was held by another great Surrealist , Marcel Duchamp , and by Julian Levy and Alexander Iolas . |
| 28 | And at the Leicester Congress in 1931 , an illuminated address , signed by every member of the executive , bore witness to the respect in which he was held by his colleagues and the deaf community as a whole . |
| 29 | ‘ The respect in which he was held by everyone who knew him was reflected in the very large numbers that attended . ’ |
| 30 | However , he was unfortunate to come up against a finely-tuned Remittance Man last March and , although Katabatic ran a cracker , mounting a ferocious challenge up the final climb , he was held by a length at the line . |