Sentence examples for was grabbed on from inspiring English sources

A Thai woman living in Macau was grabbed on her way to a beauty salon.

The man was grabbed on the eastern promenade of the bridge after passers-by noticed him pacing and growing increasingly despondent.

"It was grabbed on to because this is a place where there's nothing, so you can easily project your fantasies on to it.

Eston Kohver, an organised crime investigator in Estonia's internal security service (known by its Estonian acronym, Kapo), was grabbed on the morning of 5 September from scrubland along the border with Russia.

The violin was grabbed on 27 January from the hands of Frank Almond, the concertmaster of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, who was walking to his car after a performance of Messiaen.

Italian prosecutors have claimed that the former official, Sabrina De Sousa, 53, was a C.I.A. officer serving under diplomatic cover in the United States Consulate in Milan at the time the cleric, known as Abu Omar, was grabbed on the street by American counterterrorism officers.

"But in Angie," Black continued, "he saw a very adventurous person who was grabbing on to life and taking it to its nth degree.

Skeeching was grabbing on to the rear bumper of a moving car and letting it pull you, your shoes or boots sliding on top of the snow-covered streets.

There is the weekday event that is grabbed on the run.

Thus, most workers keep a wardrobe handy, especially sweaters to be grabbed on chilly mornings.

We have less time to read; information is grabbed on the hoof and the visual image is powerful.