Example sentences of "[conj] [subord] [pers pn] took over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Castro later admitted to Herbert Matthews that when he took over the refineries he did not know whether or not Moscow would supply Cuba with oil ( Matthews : 1969 , p. 171 ) . |
| 2 | And when I took over the magazine I said let's just use the typefaces that they use in the newspaper and supplement them for some headlines , but try to make it belong in the New York Times . |
| 3 | He loved his ‘ Jocks ’ without a trace of condescension , and when he took over the regiment as lieutenant-colonel in North Africa and Italy , his double-barrelled beer name earned him the affectionate sobriquet of ‘ Colonel Screwtop ’ . |
| 4 | But once she took over the directorship of the Institute for Chemical Research in Bucharest ( ICECHIM ) , she began to purge those scientists who had been foolish enough to cast doubt on her credentials or to refuse to ‘ co-operate ’ with her research . |
| 5 | But when they took over the firm they were always called " Mister " to distinguish them from the other captains , perhaps . |