Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] over [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | From Frankie Goes to Hollywood — who presented the image of two leather queens — through Marc Almond — in the image of a northern gay boy — through Bronski Beat — presented as ‘ out ’ political gays — to the rash of transvestite and transsexual ‘ gender bender ’ stylists like Marilyn and Boy George , sexual divergence has crossed over into the mainstream in a psychological paradigm that services perfectly pop 's current industrial situation . |
| 2 | Elizabeth Addams lived next door , Thomas Addams was still at work in his smith 's shop , Thomas Burge had taken over as the Bristol carrier , and the Clement family were producing cloth for all they were worth in workshops at the end of the street . |
| 3 | Barrington has taken over as the Squash Racquets Association 's Director of Excellence , and has been passing on the benefit of his vast experience to young British players like Marshall , Chris Walker ( world ranked 10 ) , Del Harris ( 11 ) , and Simon Parke ( 12 ) . |
| 4 | Perhaps the leader 's parent has taken over under the stress of pressure , on the one hand from top management to complete the project and on the other from the follower for promotion , thus breaking up the team . |
| 5 | But perhaps the machine has taken over from the individual . |
| 6 | The Beatles had taken over from the Rolling Stones , but Gabriel , used to pop boiling over all around her , did not notice . |
| 7 | ‘ Aga-sagas have taken over from the steamy sex bonkbusters of the Eighties . |
| 8 | Whereas the bulk of athletes being attracted to this new four-pronged sport have spilled over from the more established triathlon ranks , and so have found the canoeing discipline particularly tough , Graham has the advantage of a fine record with the paddle . |
| 9 | John Ensall said residual problems had hung over from the change in working arrangements introduced in January . |
| 10 | Adam had fallen over in the playground , hit his head on a bench , been taken to hospital . |
| 11 | Lee had gone over towards the pools and was whistling . |
| 12 | Guitarist 's Readers ' Ads have taken over as the foremost private buying , selling , swapping and personnel advertising service around . |
| 13 | The more recent story of Tom Watt has taken over in the forefront of my mind . |
| 14 | The Norther Woodworking and DIY Exhibition has taken over from the Northern exhibition that was held annually , later in the year , in Leeds and at Calderdale . |
| 15 | The Hand of Gooch has taken over from the Hand of God Maradona 's — in sporting legend . |
| 16 | Other imbibers have gone over to the dark side of beer , rejecting the pasteurised lager produced by the breweries . |
| 17 | Dalgliesh had moved over to the fireplace , a plain wooden overmantel with an iron surround patterned with grapes and convolvulus set in the middle of the right-hand wall . |
| 18 | Hoxha 's statue was pulled down , and there were clashes with police in which up to 20 people were injured according to opposition sources , although eyewitness reports said also that some members of the security forces had gone over to the side of the demonstrators . |
| 19 | Ritchie 's Eighth Army had gone over to the offensive and Rommel was in retreat towards Agheila . |
| 20 | Industrial parks now stand where pepper plantations used to be , modern buses have taken over from the rickshaw and Singaporeans now live in high-rise apartments rather than the traditional kampongs . |
| 21 | Other leaders have gone over to the Anaheim Vineyard for training . |
| 22 | Eighty-one refugee children went to Bunce Court , the school Anna Essinger had brought over from the Schwäbische Alb mountains of the Danube to Otterden , a large manor house standing in twenty-five acres of Kent countryside . |
| 23 | During the first half of the 1970s all three of the most heavily urbanized regions ( South-East , North-West , West Midlands ) had population growth below the national rate , suggesting that the urban-rural dichotomy had taken over from the north-south divide as the main feature of UK population change . |
| 24 | The Independent of Nov. 15 had meanwhile published details of internal UN documents which seemed to suggest that a UN official had handed over to the Moroccan government information supplied in confidence by the Polisario Front . |
| 25 | Near Paderborn in Westphalia in the small town of Wewelsburg was the castle of that name which Heinrich Himmler had taken over from the local council in 1934 . |
| 26 | In early 1988 is seemed as if the conflicts of the Middle East had spilled over into the strange world of British fascism . |
| 27 | The more serious threat of the expanding red weed had taken over as the immediate concern of the controllers . |
| 28 | Five or six young boys had come over to the fire with some scraps of meat and sections of cleaned intestine that they skewered with s ticks and laid on the embers to roast . |
| 29 | Nursing homes , student residences and preparatory schools of discreet reputation have taken over from the merchants . |
| 30 | HIGH TECHNOLOGY has taken over at the Port Everglades power station , run by the Florida Light and Power Company . |