Example sentences of "[pron] began [to-vb] over " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 But then , one by one , they began to topple over like skittles , and in no time the green , shot-scarred turf was littered with unconscious figures .
4 It was this second scheme that Franco was inclined to favour and whose realization he began to turn over in his mind in the autumn of 1936 .
5 Then with a great shout he began to plunge over bodies and kit-bags down the gangway towards us .
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