Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] over the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Kiwi Test star grabbed two tries and three goals after taking over the kicking duties from David Lyon , who went off injured at half-time . |
| 2 | This might suggest that France won the War of the Spanish Succession but nobody in Britain and not many people in France saw the result this way ; it was regarded more as a struggle in which the British asserted themselves militarily on the continent of Europe and began to show signs of a policy of taking over the smaller colonies of other European powers by conquest . |
| 3 | Naval fears of the financial burden of taking over the Nuclear Deterrent and its effect on the size and shape of the Fleet were allayed by the unification of the |
| 4 | He offered the Soviet republics — which are in the process of taking over the nuclear facilities previously administered by the central authorities — German help to organize their nuclear-energy programmes and build up their own inspectorates . |
| 5 | Gaddafi again held out the possibility of handing over the two men for trial by the Arab League in an Arab country , saying such a solution would be ‘ fine ’ . |
| 6 | He said it was believed that Aeroflot , the Russian airline was also interested in starting a Transatlantic service from Stansted and was considering taking over the American Airlines route . |
| 7 | Now , even while the treaties were being negotiated , Henry was seizing Scottish shipping , demanding the queen 's person , trying to bully Arran into handing over the Scottish castles south of the Forth into English hands , considering setting up Arran as a client king . |
| 8 | Brinson , before taking over the Gulbenkian Foundation in London in 1972 had chaired an arts committee of the Foundation , set up to discuss and provide financial help to the performing arts , and particularly to dance , which had had , in his words ‘ a raw deal ’ . |
| 9 | Food chain Tescos is thought to be interested in taking over the imposing building . |
| 10 | However , an outside developer has expressed a serious interest in taking over the A-listed building and running it as both as a commercial mill and as a tourist attraction . |
| 11 | Ostensibly it was to prosper from a mono-poly of trade with Spanish America , which would be bestowed upon it by the government in return for taking over the entire £9 million worth of unsecured national debt . |
| 12 | Not many spoke out against sending the Taskforce — and I also admired him for taking over the Liberal Party in very difficult circumstances . |
| 13 | Reflecting on the author 's problems , he confessed that ‘ On turning over the different chapters ’ of The king 's Own , he felt that the designated hero , Willy Seymour , was not sufficiently ‘ the hero of my tale ’ : |
| 14 | For Islington this meant that in addition to taking over the day-to-day running and management of the pre-school , school and adult educational facilities in its area , the borough had to provide resources in areas previously funded by ILEA , London-wide . |
| 15 | The UN Security Council on March 31 approved Resolution 748 that if Libya on April 15 had still failed to comply with the UN resolution of Jan. 21 by handing over the two Lockerbie bombing suspects [ see p. 38743 ] , UN member-states would impose mandatory sanctions against Libya . |
| 16 | Author A N Wilson has detailed the benefits that would be gained by handing over the royal palaces to a republican government . |
| 17 | The Kiev Rada , panic-stricken at what they saw as a Russian invasion , summoned the German army to defend their power by taking over the western Ukraine and its grain resources . |