Example sentences of "have get hold of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This man has got hold of her , and the family 's been looking everywhere . |
| 2 | I compared myself to a dog who has got hold of a large piece of meat , and runs away with it to a corner , where he may devour it in peace , without any fear of others taking it from him . ’ |
| 3 | The hon. Gentleman has got hold of the wrong end of the stick . |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | So I reckon ( hope ! ) the Guardian has got hold of this off some Derby source who is talking out the back of their heads . |
| 6 | He kept on , and it was worse because he 'd got hold of the helmet now and was smashing it against the toilet . |
| 7 | Jack would n't shoot so long as he 'd got hold of him . |
| 8 | And this is what the other blacksmiths had done : they 'd got hold of the horse 's hair and the horse could n't bear it to be touched . |
| 9 | ‘ Someone told us she 'd got hold of the name of some MP who 's mixed up in child porn . |
| 10 | ‘ I thought you 'd got hold of some . ’ |
| 11 | But you 'd got hold of him , and you 'd squeezed him till the pips rattled , and you 'd done for him as a man . |
| 12 | Erm it it could have been a problem if we 'd have both been so me materialistic that we wanted to keep everything we 'd got hold of you know . |
| 13 | Er working , sweating like like er real steel men , ca turning out soldiers and er and erm e somebody 'd got hold of a mould of these er er toy soldiers you know , the old er lead soldiers that er |
| 14 | Had to be paid , it ca n't be paid by the twenty eighth it 's er you know well if I could 've got hold of David or er , Andrew , I was gon na give Andrew a right bollocking for just pushing it in and he should 've sent it to er , Michael , Michael 's just got it shoved in front of his nose a in Edinburgh . |
| 15 | The sound of a gun being cocked ; whoever it was had got hold of his antique gun . |
| 16 | You 've got your shop stewards , your activists , you , in my region , we 've got some great officers , the one that I have , Pat is great to work with , but in the last two years , I 've had to get hold of Pat more and more , myself . |
| 17 | ‘ I suppose I should have got hold of a nightdress for you . |
| 18 | Elfed must have got hold of the diary . |
| 19 | But how could anything have got hold of him here , without our seeing ? " |
| 20 | ‘ Do you think Nicola could have got hold of something that put her in danger ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ So somebody must have got hold of the list . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You 'd have to get hold of someone who worked on the project to tell you the details . |
| 23 | Or I 'll have to get hold of the police . ’ |
| 24 | I 'll have to get hold of him ! ’ |
| 25 | Well I 'll have to get hold of your address and I 'll send you a birthday card but I might not actually send you a real birthday card , I 'll probably send you like a piece of paper saying happy birthday or something . |
| 26 | The Husayns seemed to have got hold of a piece of pottery and were trying to stuff it under Khan 's coat . |
| 27 | It 's a real effort to click back to that frame of mind , which is bad because fanaticism is the true experience of pop , not discrimination and broad-mindedness — I think of the splendid devotion of all those boys and girls , who as soon as they 've got hold of the new Cure or New Order or Bunnymen record , immediately set to learning the lyrics by heart , then spend days exhaustively interpreting the Tablets From on High , struggling to establish some fit between their experience and what is actually some drunken doggerel cobbled together in a studio off-moment . |
| 28 | I see the form tutor one as being now we 've got hold of record of achievement as being part of the developmental process of a record of achievement , now our youngsters know what a personal statement is , form tutors are happier with a joint statement it 's taken us four years |
| 29 | So in that context the argument would n't arise , therefore any sale of the shares would take place after you 've got hold of the grant and it may be necessary for other reasons like you 've got bills to pay or a mortgage to discharge , whatever the reasons . |
| 30 | ‘ But then , ’ she said , ‘ when you try to think what it is you 've got hold of , it 's not very easy to say . ’ |