Example sentences of "they took over " in BNC.
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| 1 | They took over the wool shop next door to expand their stock and the surprisingly large upstairs restaurant , now spread over both stores , has attracted well-known food critics to this outof-the-way location . |
| 2 | Inevitably , however , they took over many factual and theoretical shortcomings from the anthropologists on whom they relied and most of the problems we have seen in their work they inherited from their sources . |
| 3 | When they took over power from the king , the ‘ magnates of the Council ’ on 11 September 1259 appointed Thomas Gresley , a reformer baron , as Justice of the southern forests , and later confirmed John d'Eyville , also a reformer baron , as Justice of the northern forests . |
| 4 | They took over the mill in Bourton in 1840 , other members of the family running Lower Slaughter . |
| 5 | They took over the Gothic Domenican Church of St Salvator and that of St Clement around the corner , and gradually accumulated a huge parcel of land here . |
| 6 | They took over Yvon 's room while he was away in Peru . |
| 7 | They took over the main Fleetwood service from the old Company cars , which were then used on the short-workings . |
| 8 | As more cars came , they took over the Fleetwood service , until on 10 March 1953 , there was a complete service by Coronations between Starr Gate and Fleetwood for the first time . |
| 9 | The first is that the land around the Arnish site was owned by the Stornoway Trust , an elected body who received an undertaking from the subsidiary of Olsen Shipping when they took over the site , that only essential maintenance would be carried out on Sundays . |
| 10 | These new plants could regenerate quickly , so they took over the ecosystem . |
| 11 | Arsenal 's slump since they took over the Premier League leadership on November 7 has been startling , but Graham admitted : ‘ I do n't even think about winning the title . |
| 12 | The ten London United cars on the Mitcham route were displaced by an extension of route 30 to West Croydon late in 1933 and being shedded at Sutton , they took over a number of workings on the Sutton route , but not all . |
| 13 | The liquidator does not know of the existence of stock records in support of £50,620 , and XY Ltd , in taking over the stock , stated they did not have schedules/lists which would enable them to identify what they took over . |
| 14 | Still more to the point , were they welcomed by the Melians when they took over the existing settlement at Phylakopi ? |
| 15 | to become building-mates with Leo Castelli and Ileana Sonnabend at 420 West Broadway ( they took over the floor lately occupied by the now defunct 47th Parallel Gallery ) . |
| 16 | They took over an orphanage , a church institution and two schools , all of which are nearby . |
| 17 | I ca n't remember erm they took I just ca n't remember when they took over from us . |
| 18 | For the most part they took over existing routes , though in the hillier parts of the country they were responsible for the making of entirely new stretches of road where the older roads tackled gradients suitable only for foot-passengers and pack-horses . |
| 19 | They took over the statutory duties and provisions of the old mental health departments . |
| 20 | They took over the farm at Blind Beck and Willie pioneered the collection of milk throughout the whole dale . |
| 21 | Most of them were on the lean side because of the hard life they led and the long walks they took over hilly country to reach their fields . |
| 22 | Er and er the Lothian region took over the lunch clubs when they took over er this two tier government in Scotland , you know ? |
| 23 | They took over the lunch clubs . |
| 24 | But when they took over the firm they were always called " Mister " to distinguish them from the other captains , perhaps . |
| 25 | Originally a side-show , the new replicators turned out to be so much more efficient than the original crystals that they took over . |
| 26 | ‘ I in no way wish you to think that I am suggesting that delays and loss of documents should be treated lightly , but I would like to put forward the view that it was not within the power of my client to remedy the situation they took over from an authority since re-organised under Section 5c of the Reorganisation of Ancillary Services ( Domestic ) Act . |
| 27 | I mean we could never have paid for all those tyres and when I retired the erm , they actually had a tyre fitter supplied and paid for by they were the , they took over the whole of the tyre maintenance , they had a tyre fitter down there and he used to go up to depot , change any tyres over there that were necessary , he inspected them each day and changed them over but of course he was notifying erm at the same time . |
| 28 | Compared with the small operators they took over , the giant companies deal with a wide range of rubbish . |
| 29 | Roman cities were planned as far as possible symmetrically on a grid system , although in the case of existing towns which they took over , or of hill sites , geographical problems made this difficult . |
| 30 | They took over Bringwyn Manor in 1963 when it was in danger of falling down after a quarter of a century of neglect . |