Example sentences of "took over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The VAT returns for the last quarter are due in , and that big ( very profitable ) convention which took over the hotel for three weeks last year is imminent but you ca n't get at your data . |
| 2 | Birmingham 's Snow Hill station closed after the LMR took over the old Great Western 's lines . |
| 3 | They took over the wool shop next door to expand their stock and the surprisingly large upstairs restaurant , now spread over both stores , has attracted well-known food critics to this outof-the-way location . |
| 4 | Morris translated sagas , the Irish took over the business for a few years ; Henry James led , or rather preceded , the novelists , and then the Britons resigned en bloc ; the language is now in the keeping of the Irish ( Yeats and Joyce ) ; apart from Yeats , since the death of Hardy , poetry is being written by Americans . |
| 5 | The false idea is that French culture took over the leading position of Italy . |
| 6 | This was privately admitted by senior officers who took over the running of the fund two years ago , and after an inquiry by the Charity Commission more than £3,000 was repaid from regimental funds . |
| 7 | When the Vichy French fled , de Gaulle 's Free French and the British took over the capital . |
| 8 | A British officer also took over the Vichy commander 's mistress , a fact noted by a young British intelligence officer named Quintin Hogg . |
| 9 | Graham Sutherland , opposite a whole page of contacts , enthuses in a 1946 letter : ‘ Your photographs are wonderfully good ; easily the best we have ever had taken , and I can see how important was the time and care which you took over the composition and lighting and the idea … |
| 10 | Shanahan took over the Raiders in February last year having previously been the offensive co-ordinator with the Denver Broncos . |
| 11 | It has sold another £28m of assets and has now pulled in £70m from disposals since it took over the Brookmount property group in August . |
| 12 | Page 26 James Neill sold : MMG Patricof , the fund manager , successfully took over the Sheffield engineering company James Neill after launching a £78m cash bid . |
| 13 | She joined the Boat Race squad last January and quickly took over the Blue boat . |
| 14 | Only occasionally was there any doubt that they would win , however , particularly as David Phillips , who took over the kicking on the early retirement of Brian Bolderson , kicked only one of four penalty chances for Newport . |
| 15 | Also to be released is Wilton Mkwayi , who took over the overall command of the ANC 's military wing , Umkhonto we Sizwe , after the others were jailed but was himself arrested and jailed for life in 1965 . |
| 16 | Ware took over the post of Treasury Solicitor at a difficult time . |
| 17 | The real essence of ‘ Thatcherism ’ , indeed , lay not so much in its ideas , which proved to be increasingly malleable as the years went by , and especially when Nigel Lawson took over the Treasury in 1984 . |
| 18 | Air Chief Marshal Sir David Lee , then a Group Captain commanding 904 Wing , took over the airfield at Kemajoran which was to play a key role in the repatriation of POWs and internees . |
| 19 | It took Cuckney four years to overcome the financial crisis he encountered when he took over the Crown Agents in 1974 . |
| 20 | He took over the firm with some very clear ambitions . |
| 21 | The logical culmination of the process came when the pop singer and song-writer Elton John took over the chairmanship of Watford . |
| 22 | Increasingly publicans took over the task of providing facilities for sports which had once been enjoyed on the streets or on common land . |
| 23 | It was 1837 that it became Ring & Brymer , an entity retained by Lord Forte when he took over the company in 1962 . |
| 24 | But while Pygmalion ( 1938 ) had been directed by the reliable Asquith , Pascal himself took over the reins on Major Barbara ( 1941 ) . |
| 25 | The immediate difficulties were caused by administrative and computer changes as local authorities took over the administration of the benefit . |
| 26 | WHSmith did n't create Our Price ; it just took over the business . |
| 27 | Joss Ackland took over the part of Holly , which is increasingly haunted by thoughts of mortality . |
| 28 | John Selwyn Gummer , Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food When Mr Gummer took over the Ministry of Agriculture , he promised he would put the consumer first . |
| 29 | Mr Vigon then took over the Cannon account himself . |
| 30 | In 1983 he took over the captaincy of Jamaica when Rowe went to South Africa but found it a difficult business , perhaps because he is too quiet and introspective for cricket leadership . |