1.   And the first day you arrive you contrive to get hold of this!

2.   And when you picked hold of the fish and got hold of a piece it would come clean away.

3.   And Zoya said she had got hold of the toilet rolls, and would bring them for Anna.

4.   Control were trying to get hold of him, to verify that he had accidentally triggered his window alarm.

5.   Could you get hold of the kids, please?

6.   Do you know where I can get hold of a German--Japanese dictionary?

7.   He had extreme difficulty getting hold of the ingredients.

8.   He simply can not bear the thought of his hated enemy getting hold of young Adam.

9.   I needed desperately to get hold of a copy of the book.