Example sentences of "the [noun] takes over " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel too tired to sleep so I play some Despot when I get home but my heart 's not in it and the Empire is still in a tattered-looking state after all the earlier disasters and I 'm almost wondering if I should start again but that would mean going back to the fucking dawn of civilisation and the temptation in Despot is always to swap PoV , which people who do n't know the game always think sounds sort of innocent , like some detail , but it is n't : you 're not just swapping point of View , you 're swapping your current Despotic power Level for something less , even if it 's a regional lord or other king or a general or royal relation close to the throne , and it is not to be done lightly because as soon as you renounce the current Despot 's PoV the computer takes over and it 's a smart fucking piece of software . |
| 2 | COME 1 JANUARY , THE MAN WHO turned GM Europe into a profitable operation and fathered winners such as the Calibra takes over the top spot at Chrysler . |
| 3 | When the female has laid , the male takes over . |
| 4 | In Australia the rally side of the marathon takes over . |
| 5 | In a Word , the paraclete takes over the role of Jesus . |
| 6 | The child takes over the mother 's view of itself ; verbal appellations reinforce the manipulative process . |
| 7 | The purchaser takes over each employee subject to that employee 's accumulated statutory rights . |
| 8 | If he does , follow him until the tracker takes over . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ There will certainly be a strike across the republic if the military takes over the railway , ’ said the movement 's spokesman , Nazim Ragimov . |
| 10 | With the soaring call for its services — when the UN takes over the Somali operation on May 4th the number of peacekeepers in the field will increase from around 60,000 to nearly 90,000 — the organisation can no longer rely on the old faithfuls : countries that , either from idealism ( Canada and Scandinavia , for instance ) or from poverty ( Fiji , Nepal and many others ) , were glad to provide troops . |
| 11 | He spoke for most aid workers when he said that when the UN takes over control on May 4th its work will be only just beginning . |
| 12 | Several writers have suggested that those people who most readily succumb are often rather introverted and socially inept individuals even before the compulsion takes over . |
| 13 | When this introduction is successfully achieved the topic can be introduced , and the counsellor should try to ensure that the group takes over most of the talking . |
| 14 | Playing the game takes over the drama session and becomes a means for the children ( and sometimes the teacher ) to avoid the drama . |
| 15 | If , however , the decision is not challenged , the supervisor takes over the running of the IVA . |
| 16 | There is erm a chap down our road had a had a huge dog and when he when he took it for a walk , you know he used to he used to stagger along with him and my wife used to say there he goes again , the do what was it she used to say , the dog 's taking the man for a walk again and it i do you think it 's that sort of idea you know that in some households th the dog takes over from the er sort of central figure , even the dominant figure , things hinge round the dog , you know the holiday what shall we do with the dog , pouring down with rain but the dog has to go out for its walk and somebody has to take it . |
| 17 | This seems to indicate a deep , free , and intensive time of prayer , when the Spirit takes over and controls and leads the prayers , and one can go on praying for several hours without being aware of the passage of time . |
| 18 | The same effects can be achieved with an 000 size sable brush and very often the point at which the brush takes over from the pen is indiscernible . |
| 19 | The scrap lasts seconds , the music takes over and no-one can help but dance . |
| 20 | The scrap lasts seconds , the music takes over and no-one can help but dance . |
| 21 | and old industrial buildings that they 've just taken over and when there 's a crisis in the housing , the state takes over the schools and uses them as refugee centres |
| 22 | ‘ It was n't anything I said , Mr Gooseneck , but I suppose I do n't always keep my face impassive when the snuff takes over , as it were . ’ |
| 23 | But more striking still is his ability to make the voice switch from aria to narration , at almost any moment , in such a way that we hardly notice it , because the orchestra takes over the melody from the singer . |
| 24 | As soon as she closes her eyes , the kaleidoscope takes over again . |
| 25 | Swap too soon and the program takes over and performs some miracle that pulls the ass of the Despot you just abandoned out of the fire and next thing you know the secret police are banging down the doors and hauling you and your family off into the night and oblivion ; the machine thereupon promptly declares itself the winner and it 's back to that fucking cave again . |
| 26 | It provides the exporter with the security that he will receive payment for goods which he has despatched , regardless of the buyer 's ability or willingness to pay , since the bank takes over the payment obligation . |
| 27 | When the virus takes over a cell it takes over the master-plan or system of instruction of that cell and the cell is thereafter directed to reproduce itself with the virus already in command . |
| 28 | ( As played by the Moscow Arts Theatre , Turgenev 's A Month in the Country takes over two hours , Ashton 's ballet roughly half an hour . ) |
| 29 | With bigger groups the atmosphere takes over and helps combat the hitches . |
| 30 | The production takes over at the Criterion Theatre from Making It Better starring actress and cake-maker Jane Asher , which is to close unexpectedly on December 5 . |