Sentence examples for nabbed it by from inspiring English sources

Steve Gilbert nabbed it by  3 per cent for the Liberal Democrats in 2010 but  faces a stiff challenge from  St Austell businessman  and former pastor Steve Double.

Enticed by a loosely-mounted cover CD featuring music by Photek and the Future Sound of London, Walmsley, who was working as debt recovery administrator at the time, nabbed it, and was impressed by the way the compilation's seemingly disparate collection of artists managed to both complement and resonate with each other.

The following month another contraband delivery drone allegedly on its way to a prison was nabbed by cops before it got off the ground in Maryland.

Originally Christian, it was nabbed by invading Ottoman Turk armies in 1453 and converted to a mosque.

The cuts may also affect Fermilab's flagship Tevatron collider, which researchers hope will cough up the long-sought Higgs boson before it is nabbed by the more powerful Large Hadron Collider.

Bike trailers are ideal to wheel them around in with all their 'stuff', but make sure you take a padlock or it will be nabbed by passing drunken revelers!

("Iron Man 3" nabbed $174.1 million by the end of its opening stint).

A lawyer from Rocky Mount who has defended moonshiners recalls the complaint of one nabbed by an agent using binoculars: "It ain't fair.

Isiah Thomas, the former Knicks coach, said he drafted Balkman 20th over all in 2006 because he was concerned that if he had not, Balkman might have been nabbed by the Phoenix Suns, coached by Mike D'Antoni, now the Knicks' coach.

Often suspects nabbed by police are released or acquitted by courts due to "lack of evidence".

Robinson Cano had to charge to his right but nabbed Moreland by a step.