Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] to take over " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the capital , Caracas , the rebels tried to take over the government palace and the presidential residence , La Carlota airport , the Ministry of Defence , Navy and National Guard buildings and the national television station . |
| 2 | Although the government found the ‘ service city ’ far from satisfactory , it was not until Catherine II 's reign that centrally appointed officials began to take over many of these functions . |
| 3 | There were hundreds of different languages spoken on the Australian continent when the Europeans began to take over in the late eighteenth century . |
| 4 | British Airways agreed to take over Dan-Air for a nominal £1 ; the company will also assume Dan-Air 's liabilities , estimated at £35m . |
| 5 | He was proud of his father , who was an earl and a king , but he wished his father stayed in Orkney all summer , as Otkel did , who had taken his son fighting once , when pirates tried to take over Foula . |
| 6 | At the same time , in some towns at least , bishops came to take over the duties of such late Roman officers as the defensores , who had been expected to defend the weak . |
| 7 | Also on May 2 another Croatian policeman was killed in the mainly Croatian coastal village of Polaca when Serbian police tried to take over the Croatian-manned police station ; and a helicopter carrying among others the Vice-President of the Croatian Federal Assembly , Vladimir Seks , was fired on and forced to make an emergency landing after it took off from Kijevo . |
| 8 | In 1979 , as more and more pressurised water reactors were ordered throughout Europe , EEC ministers decided to take over the project . |
| 9 | Unions tried to take over the country . |