Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] get hold " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I reckon ( hope ! ) the Guardian has got hold of this off some Derby source who is talking out the back of their heads . |
| 2 | Mr Edgar tried to get hold of the key , but she threw it quickly into the hottest part of the fire . |
| 3 | Now that Travis had got hold of the scent he would be like a bloodhound , and there was no knowing what Lori would inadvertently reveal . |
| 4 | The mercenaries had to get hold of their horses somewhere in Fife , and there were always distractions . |
| 5 | Like many in her profession , her work is intermittent , and with her permission , in August we asked Robert to try to get hold of her employment details . |
| 6 | There was a secret somewhere , though , that Thérèse had to get hold of and understand . |
| 7 | The hon. Gentleman has got hold of the wrong end of the stick . |
| 8 | Emmie tried to get hold of him but he fought like the baby wild cat her mother had once been given to tame . |
| 9 | Beneath that was a leaflet with the number of the switchboard ( 837 7324 ) and then eight pamphlets dealing with sexual hygiene , four of them coming from America , ones which Madame had got hold of before anyone else . |
| 10 | I was n't sure I wanted to hear any more , but Oliver had got hold of my sleeve again . |
| 11 | People tend to get hold of wrong ideas , just as you did last night . ’ |
| 12 | You come , you go to Ireland and you , you might come in , on a lovely sunny day like this and you get half way over and you 've go yo you think Jesus Christ has got hold of you ! |
| 13 | From somewhere Fergal had got hold of a bottle of hooch , and the three eldest sat round the kitchen table getting their first taste of hard liquor , and smoking their way through a packet of Camel cigarettes , while Ellie and Patsy , locked into the room with them , were forced to watch . |
| 14 | How the printers had got hold of her photograph she did not know , but they had , and now it was being sold all over London , along with ones of Lillie Langtry and other noted belles . |
| 15 | Miss J. has pretty well run him and now he 's doing a roaring trade and has just married a daughter of Lord Lytton , he 's evidently right in with the right lot of people … and what a God 's mercy that for once in a way these people have got hold of the right man and what a thing for England . ’ |
| 16 | This man has got hold of her , and the family 's been looking everywhere . |
| 17 | The tension , however , eased after Omar managed to get hold of some elders . |
| 18 | Peter Arnold had got hold of some copies to sell in Brighton on his own initiative . |
| 19 | You 'll have difficulty trying to get hold of a bike or a canoe in the Tatras . |
| 20 | And later on , in the '30s , the Hawaiians managed to get hold of the early electrified lap-steels , like the Rickenbackers and the Gibsons — Gibsons were just everywhere in those days . ’ |
| 21 | He tried to educate them about the nature of demythologizing , a word of which the press had got hold , and to guide them about the best modern writing on the New Testament . |
| 22 | It was a bit late for that , since the press had got hold of the story anyway . |
| 23 | Or , The Fourniers have got hold of a rare bird , you know . |
| 24 | The sheriff demanded to know how the solicitor had got hold of a confidential social inquiry report . |
| 25 | It looked just like the picture of Gullible or whoever he was , except the nomes had got hold of what the nomes in those days had never heard of , which was lots of electric wire . |
| 26 | I remember there was a big ; story in one of the newspapers because a guy had got hold of a Telecaster — they made a big feature of it ! |
| 27 | Erm the third one is we 've got a small amount of money out of , think again it 's out of TEED and , but it 's N Y T E C have got hold of it and it 's to do with further development of the Careers Service Tech Partnership , but it 's only a few thousand , it 's a very small n amount compared , I mean the bid that we 've put in for this Standards and Indicators is more like sort of thirty thousand . |