Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] to take over " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to take over the kitchen , but in this I was thwarted by my father who had his own ideas about food , and who would keep interfering and making a mess , whereas I preferred to clear away and wash up as I went along . |
| 2 | Yeah , but , I had to take over , where she left off . |
| 3 | ‘ His engineer would not take over as he had had a full day 's terror , so I volunteered to take over engine control in his place . |
| 4 | Lennie could n't control his own actions very well as he was always being haunted by his own strength which seemed to take over him . |
| 5 | But the modern equivalents of the apothecaries , surgeons , druggists and vets of the past now operate from Driffield , which began to take over from Kilham as the ‘ Capital of the Wolds ’ in the late 18th century and through the 19th . |
| 6 | He would go to see Joseph Fouché personally , and explain the position to him : that he had uncovered a massive international conspiracy of Jews who planned to take over the whole of Europe . |
| 7 | Why would you want to take over responsibility for handling run-time errors ? when BBCBASIC(Z80) detects a run-time error , it reports it and RETURNS TO THE COMMAND MODE . |
| 8 | She wants to take over |
| 9 | ‘ Well , ’ she said softly , ‘ he said that you want to take over Swift Investments , disinherit him , marry the perfect wife and found a dynasty . ’ |
| 10 | A woman who tried to take over Swindon Town Football Club has been giving evidence against the former manager Lou Macari , who 's on trial for tax fraud . |
| 11 | And beware of those who want to take over the organiser 's job . |
| 12 | For example , if his company has unwelcome suitors who want to take over , or his activities in the Third World are threatening home sales . |
| 13 | We finished our shift at 8 and he was going at 9 , but at 8 , instead of the usual people who came to take over from us , the managing director of the company and his next-door neighbour came in their golfing clothes to pick up whatever tip was being given and we were told to push off . |
| 14 | Are you going to take over patients that you consider too difficult for me ? |
| 15 | Michael Cole , the media director for the House of Fraser , said on March 7 , 1990 , that the report was inept and prejudiced , while on the same day Sir Edward Du Cann , chairman of Lonrho ( which had itself desired to take over the House of Fraser ) , criticized the government for refusing to take action against the Fayeds and said that damages would be sought against the brothers through the courts . |
| 16 | Instead of the children being the monsters , the parents become the monsters who threaten to take over and exact revenge . |
| 17 | If there 's already a working phone line at your new address , and you arrange to take over the service on the same day as the old customer disconnects , it will be re-connected free of charge . |
| 18 | Landlords who wish to take over public sector dwellings have first to seek the approval of the Housing Corporation which has set out the criteria for approval in some detail . |
| 19 | I thought I 'd better come here first , though , in case you wanted to take over . " |
| 20 | Why did Angelica Kauffman return so often to the image of Penelope , wife of Ulysses mother of Telemachus , who was abandoned by her husband when he went off to fight the Trojan Wars , and had to fend off a pack of vulture-like suitors who wanted to take over Ulysses ' estate , wealth and derelict wife . |
| 21 | ‘ This declaration is not a blind bit of good to the workers who have to take over the jobs of those who have emigrated , ’ and ‘ Why do we have to wait till the next central committee meeting ? ’ were other grumbles . |
| 22 | and , they asked us did we want to take over the dinners because |
| 23 | You 've got to get Boris 's agreement before anyone can press the trigger or is this actually much more dangerous than it sounds , is he saying we want to take over the nuclear weapons . |
| 24 | And it does worry me because , if we 're going to go into unitory authorities whose going to take over these debts , if we 're going to build them up ? |
| 25 | Whether the government , which is collecting the money from the sale of the villas , was hoping Prince Sihanouk would come back , or whether no one dared to take over the house , Mr Sok Hay would not say . |
| 26 | And that the peasant associations had now become the , the sole erm sort of er th they were the authority , they , they , they began to take over control , they were th the leading the thing . |
| 27 | The help facility is very useful , not only for training new users , but also for infrequent users who suddenly find that they have to take over urgent work at short notice . |
| 28 | They attempted to take over the city ; for three days they fought the Viet Minh , and in the cross-fire Lieutenant-Colonel Dewey of OSS was shot dead . |
| 29 | On two occasions he applied to take over redundant or nearly redundant churches and on a third to start a new church . |
| 30 | Part of his stock-in-trade when he wants to take over an organization . |