Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] over [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dennis the Menace has turned over a new leaf — for a week ! |
| 2 | COMIC Mike Harding saw how Middlesbrough has turned over a new leaf at the weekend . |
| 3 | An Italian entrepreneur has taken over a whole department store to sell western goods in Romanian currency . |
| 4 | Science fiction has taken over the fantasy-forming role of traditional mythology . |
| 5 | Again , the frequency of masturbation is perhaps highest among older males recently defeated by a newcomer male who has taken over the sexual role in his harem . |
| 6 | The engineering company T-I has taken over the Dowty Group , based in Cheltenham . |
| 7 | In his absence , fellow director Mr Pahdra Singh , well known proprietor of the 8-Day Superette and Pahdra 's Palace take-away , has taken over the day-to-day business of chairman . |
| 8 | Senior Trading Manager Jim Kerr has taken over the inter-bank team while David Peebles , Senior Corporate Manager , has been recruited to head the corporate dealing and business development team . |
| 9 | Annual General Meetings are attended by several thousand employee shareholders and ( in contrast to the normally sedate company AGM in some discreet City hall ) NFC has to take over the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham or the Winter Gardens at Blackpool . |
| 10 | Ectothermic reptiles have a body temperature that tends to vary over a 24-hour period , and hence seem unable to support a large brain . |
| 11 | More than 30,000 pupils from 70 Wirral schools have been raising money for Winch , which expects to hand over a five-figure cheque to the national appeal the following Friday . |
| 12 | ‘ Facilities management contracts in France are beginning to become contracts in which the client decides to hand over the complete information system , ’ he noted . |
| 13 | If an architecture fails to take over the mainstream computer market in its first ten years , it 's not likely ever to do so . |