Sentence examples for took a grip from inspiring English sources

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

Secondly, Ukip's organisation was appalling until Farage and his allies took a grip and set up viable structures.

I flumped it on the bed beside me and took a grip on it by the collar.

The Oakland Athletics took a grip on the AL West lead with an 18-3 thrashing of the Minnesota Twins.

Since then five have died, after one of the worst droughts in memory took a grip on southern Kenya.

Eugenics, the Nazis' favourite life science, took a grip here amid hysteria that racial integration would lead to national "degeneracy".

And yet Graham Henry's Lions took a gripping, thrilling series to the very last line-out.

In a video by PBS and NOVA, the bow tie-wearing science educator and TV personality describes how he took a gripping astronomy course with Sagan, who later advised him to focus on "pure science" in his children's show.

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?