Sentence examples for had not grabbed from inspiring English sources

And because the other early arrivals had not grabbed the few available tables, we sat down.

But Lloris is younger than any of them, and if Spurs had not grabbed him, some other team would have.

Some said that Mr. Klein had not grabbed enough of the spotlight and that City Hall should give school officials more freedom to speak publicly.

The marquess might have fallen off the transom into the Solent during his investigation if a member of the crew had not grabbed him by the wooden leg that was testimony to his heroics at the battle of Waterloo.

Strangely enough, if Knight had not grabbed that student's arm, he would have been serving the final game of his three-game suspension -- for previously choking a player -- tonight.

His cross would have been converted by Tom Taiwo if Bell had not grabbed the ball.

And what about the thirteen hundred or so sites that hadn't grabbed Pruitt's attention?

His newly published Staying On, a coda to his Raj Quartet, hadn't grabbed me; it won a Booker Prize after his death.

They enjoyed 82% possession in that first half, but let's face it, that would only be another stick to beat them with if they hadn't grabbed those two goals.

Cursing my forgetfulness, since I hadn't grabbed my cordless phone off the charger earlier, I set my laptop down on the floor, closing it as I placed it there, and rushed to the phone.

But none of this would happen if Smith hadn't grabbed the public and media spotlight.