21.   Leaning over for balance, take hold of your front ankle and raise the back leg.

22.   Like most ideas that ultimately take hold in Washington, this one has been percolating for a long time.

23.   Reaching inside his tartan plaid he tried to make his fingers take hold of the pommel of his sword.

24.   She was horrified to see how quickly the opportunistic infection took hold.

25.   Sitting with legs outstretched, take hold of your calves with both hands and squeeze them together.

26.   The idea of unions balloting their members before taking industrial action took hold.

27.   The wine Adrienne had kept passing to her was taking hold of an empty stomach.

28.   The winter solstice was only three days away, and the urge to have a raucous good time among friends took hold.

29.   There are usually reasons why some ideas take hold and persist while others fail to do so.

30.   Things got progressively out of hand, and a paramilitary group took hold of the upper Maroni region.