Example sentences of "get hold [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when the great gentleman detective got hold of the village postman and subjected him to an interrogation which ranged from what he had eaten for breakfast to whether or not he possessed a wireless set and if so what he had listened to on the previous morning , Sergeant Bramble maintained a stoic countenance . |
| 2 | Around then I also got hold of a folk album by Pete Seeger and I remember being really struck by a track called ‘ Goofing Off Suite ’ . |
| 3 | We walked straight past , pretending not to notice him , but he got hold of Malcolm and said , where 's the audition ? |
| 4 | Lee got hold of him by the collar . |
| 5 | Lee got hold of the dog by its collar . |
| 6 | Not that it would make much difference if Lee got hold of them . |
| 7 | He got hold of it and hung on . |
| 8 | He wondered whether Simon had found his knife or got hold of another one . |
| 9 | Jackie got hold of the door handle and began , very gently , to turn it . |
| 10 | I got hold of him and got a punch in the face as well . |
| 11 | I got hold of him and got a punch in the face as well … ’ |
| 12 | He got hold of the polished tip of one of his shoes , and tried to pull himself away from the wall . |
| 13 | She got hold of a fallen ulster and stuffed it into Nina 's face . |
| 14 | Even in the largely loyal community of the school a hot little item like this one could probably only be shared by about five people before the newspapers got hold of the story . |
| 15 | It was well established before the media got hold of it . |
| 16 | He tried to ease his body to one side to let her come in but he was surprised once again as she got hold of his hand and began to pull him out of the bed . |
| 17 | She got hold of the railings and all I could hear was screams . |
| 18 | By that time , their wives had come out of the crowd and got hold of them , and were taking them away . |
| 19 | I got hold of him by the scruff of the neck and took him along to the police box and rang up for the wagon . |
| 20 | This owner called Judge , he got hold of me , promised me a motor car , a fur coat and I do n't know what . |
| 21 | Somehow , he got hold of a bowie knife , and managed to escape . |
| 22 | All about running for trains they could n't catch or being sat on by scaly monsters , and they got hold of books that told you that it meant Sex . |
| 23 | The dreams were all in a mess on the top , so I got hold of them and put them underneath me to stop them blowing away ( not that there was any wind ) and hunted through the rest . |
| 24 | I take it you did as I suggested and got hold of a paper . ’ |
| 25 | The press got hold of it somehow , as they usually do , but there 's nothing official yet . |
| 26 | I went home , got hold of the records and started trying to play bottleneck like Clarence White ! |
| 27 | I got together with a school friend when I was 12 — I 'd just started playing guitar — and we played Beatles and Stones numbers , but then he got hold of a Muddy Waters album and that just blew us away ! |
| 28 | Eventually I got hold of a Telecaster , but nowadays , apart from the 345 , I use Strats and Duo Sonics with a metal slide rather than glass . |
| 29 | He got hold of the picture , found it was just Elvis snipped from a magazine , confronted the girl , and she conceded , accompanying him to the dance : ‘ I guess I 've had a connection with him ever since , ’ he says . |
| 30 | At the end of the lesson the excitable Dutchman got hold of a piece of chalk and began to draw a cliff on the board . |