Example sentences of "we took over " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1948 , this became a Jewish town and we took over the building . ’ |
| 2 | I privately made up my mind to do away with that sort of thing when we took over ; such things should not be allowed . |
| 3 | We took over the entire eighth floor of the Grosvenor House Hotel , had a suite each , turned one bedroom into a VIP lounge , another into a Space Invaders arcade for Davis and yet another into a private cinema for Tony Meo to watch Rocky films . |
| 4 | For the other ranks we took over St Michael 's girls ' school which was able to take about seventy men . |
| 5 | Mr Ellis added : ‘ When we took over the line the state of the locomotives was not as we would have wished so we have embarked on a rebuilding process . ’ |
| 6 | Following a stately early development , the TSB Group is now undergoing rapid change — new products , new services , new technology , even new companies such as United Dominions Trust , the instalment credit company which we took over last year . |
| 7 | Perhaps the hon. Lady will tell me under which of the three Conservative Governments since 1979 the average rate of inflation was remotely near that of the Labour Government from whom we took over . |
| 8 | That in itself meant that we took over an uncompetitive company . |
| 9 | Quite a lot of fish were returned to the water and I think we took over seventy in that couple of hours in the afternoon . |
| 10 | Erm that was in the early days Charley and Tom did the crossing there for the mails and early in nineteen fifty one no fifty five that we took over the mails . |
| 11 | We held a lot of successful exhibitions and gradually we took over room after room in Tottenham mews until , finally , we occupied almost all the house . |
| 12 | Because when we took over this room it had actually two extra floors in , one where you see the joists and one higher up . |
| 13 | Then 6 months of stability when we took over . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ It was a struggle at first , because when we took over , we discovered that most of the team had left , so we had to find players quickly . |
| 15 | Studio 81 manageress Lynne Brereton said : ’ Last year we took over 500 portraits and this year we hope to exceed that total . ’ |
| 16 | As Graham Bowstead points out : ‘ When we took over P&W was printing 130 report and accounts a year , the second-highest number produced by any company , yet it was hardly known south of the border . |
| 17 | ‘ The skills were there when we took over and Courtaulds 's role was to act as an enabler — to allow those skills to be unleashed . |
| 18 | Following long negotiations , we took over from Spinneys on 1 November at a number of hospitals , Ministry of Defence and other institutions . |
| 19 | Because people who 've been in the press for quite a long time were using this before we took over the telephone system . |