11.   He grasped her arm firmly.

12.   She made to pass him, but he grasped her arm, detaining her.

13.   In tanks that have a float ball at the end of a metal arm, grasp the arm and bend it gently to push the float ball lower.

14.   Someone grasped his arm to help steady him, and he reached for the podium.

15.   As she fought back tears, her son grasped her arm and pulled it around his shoulders in an embrace.

16.   He catapulted off a trapeze, spun three times and grasped the arms of an upside-down acrobat swinging on another trapeze.

17.   He grasps her arm instead of her hand and turns, pulls and lifts her, sometimes over his head.

18.   Chernomyrdin strode briskly on to the tarmac as Yeltsin left the plane and Yeltsin grasped his arms and appeared anxious to reassure the prime minister that he was fine.