Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 31 | Nothing is easier than to obey a master who is perhaps exacting , but who rules over all details of life , assures one 's daily bread , and makes it possible to banish all concern from the mind . |
| 32 | And the hoops were made by soldiers , who turned over and stood on their hands and feet . |
| 33 | I was moved by the account , seeing resemblances between the experience of these women , dead many thousands of years before , and women alive now who weep over men whose love they think is dead but try to revive with their tears . |
| 34 | Those full-time farmers who handed over the holding to a family member at the age of 65 years were entitled to a larger state pension . |
| 35 | But of the 700 people who handed over more than £350,000 to Todd , only 29 made any money . |
| 36 | Denholm entered the cabin with Theodore , who handed over to Talbot some papers he had with him . |
| 37 | The first contra demobilizations , in the Honduran base camps of La Kiatara on April 16 and Yamales on April 18 , reportedly only involved wounded rebels , including 260 Miskito Indians , who handed over old and unserviceable arms to UN forces . |
| 38 | On Oct. 18 the German Foreign Minister , Hans-Dietrich Genscher , visiting Kiev as part of a German cultural event met the Ukrainian President , Leonid Kravchuk and Foreign Minister , Anatoly Zlenko , who handed over documents on establishing consular relations between Germany and Ukraine . |
| 39 | Alternatively , filmmaking is seen as a sort of relay race in which each member of the creative team has control of certain moments — the producer handing over to the writer , who hands over to the director , who hands over to the lighting cameraman and so on until everything comes back to the producer again . |
| 40 | Alternatively , filmmaking is seen as a sort of relay race in which each member of the creative team has control of certain moments — the producer handing over to the writer , who hands over to the director , who hands over to the lighting cameraman and so on until everything comes back to the producer again . |
| 41 | With further losses expected this year , strategy has been overhauled under the guidance of chairman Brian Garraway , who hands over to financial services managing director , Martin Broughton , in July . |
| 42 | ‘ Those who blur over that distinction do not understand its crucial importance for the successful handling of a whole series of intractable problems of which this is just , at the moment , the worst . ’ |
| 43 | Who knocked over my glass ? ’ |
| 44 | Riot police were despatched early in August to the Tuva ASSR ( part of the Russian Federation , beside the Mongolian border ) to prevent clashes between native Tuvans and Russians who constituted over one-third of Tuva 's 300,000 population . |
| 45 | The election campaign was marred by racial tensions between the majority Macedonians and the Albanians , who constituted over one-third of Macedonia 's 1,900,000 population and were concentrated in the west of the republic . |
| 46 | Lord Arran told how Minister Walsh , who spent over a day at the show , and he would be considering the extent to which they can co-operate mutually to the advantage of all involved in the food and drink industry in Ireland . |
| 47 | And one of the two new caps , the Australian Brian Smith who takes over at fly-half from the injured Paul Dean , has had a less than spectacular season with Leinster . |
| 48 | Michael Portillo , who takes over , brings with him the label of Thatcherite hero-in-waiting . |
| 49 | Willie Carson , who takes over on Glasgow , may initiate a double with Tiger Claw in the Town Purse Handicap ( 2.30 ) . |
| 50 | The night god , who takes over when the day is done , is in the act of rising with his load . |
| 51 | But rumour has it that a sevens tournament is going to be organised in Moscow in September to decide who takes over the Soviet place : Russia , Ukraine , Georgia , Latvia or Kazakhstan . |
| 52 | President-elect Bill Clinton , who takes over from Bush on January 20 , said Mr Bush 's decision gave the message : ‘ If you work for the government you 're above the law . ’ |
| 53 | But the more pragmatic chief executive Sir Colin Marshall , who takes over from Lord King next year , is thought to have cautioned against pouring millions of pounds into a legal fight with no guarantee of victory . |
| 54 | Mr Condon , 45 , currently Chief Constable of Kent who takes over as the Met 's youngest-ever Commissioner in February , added that bombs still went off in Northern Ireland despite having the army on the streets . |
| 55 | As Chris Llewellyn Smith , who takes over as director at CERN next year , points out , the unstarted LHC is less than $3 billion from completion all told , while the SSC , despite being $2 billion in the hole , still has $8 billion to go . |
| 56 | Who takes over when Butcher gives up ? |
| 57 | Now Birt , who takes over as BBC director general in March , is determined to cut the Corporation 's losses — and axe up to 8,000 jobs too . |
| 58 | It was said when he first arrived at Wigan that he had a great act to follow after Lowe but that becomes even more relevant this time for fellow Aussie John Dorahy who takes over the reins . |
| 59 | As Freud demonstrated in Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego , typical group psychology produces a lowering of the ego-competence of the individual group member in favour of the group itself and especially of the leader who takes over important ego-functions from him , principally those appertaining to the superego . |
| 60 | Sometimes we know people very well , but it still helps does n't it if somebody else comes in that there 's some sort of system there that somebody else who takes over your section can find out exactly who 's received what . |