Sentence examples for takes a grip from inspiring English sources

30 min: Mutu takes a grip of the game and fires a potent shot just a foot wide of the top-left hand corner.

But in the main, it's a disarmingly honest set, insightful into how obsession takes a grip, and fearless of subjects unusual for comedy: extreme love, the blaze of possessiveness, the terror of loneliness.

Tam Fry of the National Obesity Forum, also called for regulation, adding: "The much-vaunted voluntary responsibility deal will never succeed until the government takes a grip and makes everybody sign up to it".

The conversation between the siblings in the dank cellar -- the ensuing love between two outsiders -- slowly takes a grip on the audience until the climax: a heartbreaking scene to David Bowie's "Space Oddity" (sung in Italian) that moved me to tears.

Simultaneously, the thumb and index finger of the other hand are used to support the perineum while the flexed middle finger takes a grip on the baby's chin.

Fear was starting to take a grip.

Instead, he confessed to being frustrated at his charges' failure to take a grip on proceedings.

Can City or Arsenal be trusted to take a grip of the lead?

Taking a grip of myself, however, I will tend to blurt out one word: "Bamberg".

Barclays looked outside following pressure from institutions for a heavy-hitter to take a grip.

The French forwards in the second half took a grip on proceedings.