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get something or somebody for a specific purpose
I found this gadget that will serve as a bottle opener
I got hold of these tools to fix our plumbing
The chairman got hold of a secretary on Friday night to type the urgent letter
How To Use get hold In A Sentence
- Money and its availability is usually the primary concern for all budget holders while the latter is growing in importance and complexity.
- If you can't get hold of truffle pecorino, use parmesan. Times, Sunday Times
- If you know what breeding practices to do, if you know what diet to follow, if you know what drug to concoct, if you can get hold of the stuff to do it with, anybody can become an immortal.
- You'd better hope so, because now if he falls we have no way of controlling what whackos get hold of his nukes.
- But then hands of steel get hold of my ankles and start pulling at me - pulling pulling pulling.
- Especially when pewlosi, redd and obama get hold of her. MoveOn ad campaign targets Hagan over 'public option'
- The really clever ones manage to get hold of industrial-strength incendiaries, which sound as if the SAS have come to town on manoeuvres.
- Tom never disobeyed his father, for Mr. Tulliver was a peremptory man, and, as he said, would never let anybody get hold of his whip hand; but he went out rather sullenly, carrying his piece of plumcake, and not intending to reprieve Maggie's punishment, which was no more than she deserved. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7
- Yes, to get hold of the cabman is the principal thing," said Nevill, without any ring of confidence in his voice. The Golden Silence
- That means we can't really get hold of the actual source IP, because unlike a mail message, there's nothing in the TCP / IP specification that will add the routing to the packet as it goes along.