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He was seized with a dreadful disease
Fear seized the prisoners
The patient was seized with unbearable pains -
be in or establish communication with
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He never contacted his children after he emigrated to Australia -
get into one's hands, take physically
Take a cookie!
Can you take this bag, please
How To Use get hold of In A Sentence
- 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.
- I'll wring her neck when I get hold of her!