Example sentences of "[verb] taken over [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | HIGH TECHNOLOGY has taken over at the Port Everglades power station , run by the Florida Light and Power Company . |
| 4 | But perhaps the machine has taken over from the individual . |
| 5 | The Hand of Gooch has taken over from the Hand of God Maradona 's — in sporting legend . |
| 6 | It has taken over from the Appeal committee the task of raising money to support the teaching of Law in Somerville . |
| 7 | The unnatural has taken over in the shape of the chain-saw and the bulldozer . |
| 8 | The more recent story of Tom Watt has taken over in the forefront of my mind . |
| 9 | Speaking from Sierra Leone , Moniba claimed that under the Constitution he should have taken over on the death of Doe in September , and he called on Sawyer 's interim government to step down . |
| 10 | For another , the ‘ war party ’ may already have taken over within the Vietminh : at least when Sainteny , attempting his last act of mediation , saw Ho for the last time before the war started , he complained about the moderate elements who had been eliminated from the government to the benefit of the notorious Francophobes ; and as the war was on the point of beginning , and as attacks on French soldiers and civilians had not ceased , nor had French retaliation , Sainteny 's exasperation was to be seen in his demand that culprits should be punished within 24 hours . |
| 11 | ‘ Instead of selling the offices which we 've taken over in the village , you could use them as a workshop and studio , ’ he suggested . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Commercial farmers ( increasingly Africans who have taken over in the wake of the slow European exodus since Independence ) are still relied upon to provide the bulk of the urban demand for foodstuffs , particularly luxury items such as beef , milk , and cheese . |
| 15 | Nursing homes , student residences and preparatory schools of discreet reputation have taken over from the merchants . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Darkness has descended and the mosquitoes have taken over from the enemy mortars . |