have a hold upon

Example Sentences

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Make a popular audience laugh, and you have a hold upon its attention.

From Denzil Quarrier by Gissing, George

“And because of that she will have a hold upon you while you live.”

From The Greater Power by Dunton, W. Herbert

But if he wrongs you, you have a hold upon him, you can call him to account through his group.

From A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia by Kendall, Elizabeth Kimball

It never occurred to me that he was lending me this money merely to have a hold upon me, and I thought it possible you might care for him.

From Hard Pressed by White, Fred M. (Fred Merrick)

I won't trust him till I have a hold upon him.

From Desk and Debit or, The Catastrophes of a Clerk by Optic, Oliver