1.   She hisses her disapproval, then snatches up the denims, and digs the key from one of the pockets.

2.   He snatched up the bottle and flung it through the open window.

3.   He snatched up the receiver and his free hand groped for the switch on the bedside lamp.

4.   He snatched up the telephone.

5.   A bird had snatched up the snake from the ground and then dropped it on to the wires.

6.   Suddenly hostile, the girl leapt to her feet and snatched up her handbag.

7.   She snatched up the receiver and sat wetly on the bed.

8.   When at last she snatched up her bedroom phone and found Rory on the end of it, Jessica had already endured a call from Terence.

9.   The station head snatched up his smouldering cigar and patted furiously at his smouldering fly.

10.   One or two snatched up their children and held them close, making signs to warn off the evil eye.