Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [to-vb] over the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ministry said yesterday that it has had to hand over the file to the European Commission , which is investigating the Rover deal . |
| 2 | Mr Gillespie wrote back accepting the contents of the letter but since his 65th birthday he has refused to hand over the shares . |
| 3 | ‘ I bin asked to take over the choir like , for the concert , play the organ … . ’ |
| 4 | The restoration of the monarchy , he said , would bring back the communism and anarchy which had threatened to take over the country before the Civil War . |
| 5 | In the meantime various troubles had flared up throughout the world -America had become involved in Korea ; France was involved in both Algiers ( who were seeking independence ) and Indo-China ; whilst Britain became involved in retaliation against the Egyptian government which had threatened to take over the Suez Canal . |
| 6 | Her exhausted captain had had to hand over the wheel to Arthur and for eight days he was scarcely relieved . |
| 7 | The truth of the matter was that even before she had agreed to take over the club she had been plagued more and more by a feeling that she had done all she could do in the music business . |
| 8 | She had no idea how he knew Kattina was in police custody , or that she had agreed to take over the job . |
| 9 | If by some chance the Poles had agreed to hand over the city it is quite possible that even at this late stage NSDAP support in the city would have evaporated . |
| 10 | All these activities suddenly came to an end when Chiang Kai-shek broke with the Communists after the USSR had tried to take over the KMT . |
| 11 | Such books were published mainly in the 1920S and 1930S at a time when women had to learn to take over the running of their own homes , without the help of servants any longer , but still keeping middle- and upper-class standards . |
| 12 | He sees Ecstasy largely in terms of the market place : ‘ Professional criminals have realised there is money to be made and over two years they have managed to take over the market . |