Sentence examples for held the house from inspiring English sources

If the Democrats had held the house, that would have continued".

Davis told BBC1's Andrew Marr Show on Sunday that the motion would say Blair held the house in contempt over the 2003 invasion.

I also paid about $6,000 in property tax for the time I held the house and then I paid income tax on the profit and in some counties I have to pay a gross sales tax, even on real estate sales.

Kristol says that "Republicans should not kid themselves" because they lost the Presidential election, a Senate opportunity, and held the House against a national House vote that went against them.

He denies that he got it wrong in 1995 (because the upshot was balanced budgets, and though Mr Clinton was re-elected the next year, the Republicans held the House) and shows no sign of having mellowed in the past decade and a half.

He held the House captive.

They clearly hold the house dear.

The table rests on the concrete foundation that used to hold the house's den.

One animal in particular can literally eat its way through the wood that holds the house together.

"We've been holding the house every since".

Also, the bolts that hold the house down often extend only into the slab, not into the foundation.