Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [verb] over [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Aga-sagas have taken over from the steamy sex bonkbusters of the Eighties .
2 Without a specific perpetuity period of at least the length of the term ( if the term exceeds 21 years ) plus a few additional years to cover holding over under the 1954 Act , there would be no right to use pipes placed under the premises during the 23rd year of the term .
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 John Ensall said residual problems had hung over from the change in working arrangements introduced in January .
5 Guitarist 's Readers ' Ads have taken over as the foremost private buying , selling , swapping and personnel advertising service around .
6 Other imbibers have gone over to the dark side of beer , rejecting the pasteurised lager produced by the breweries .
7 Hoxha 's statue was pulled down , and there were clashes with police in which up to 20 people were injured according to opposition sources , although eyewitness reports said also that some members of the security forces had gone over to the side of the demonstrators .
8 Industrial parks now stand where pepper plantations used to be , modern buses have taken over from the rickshaw and Singaporeans now live in high-rise apartments rather than the traditional kampongs .
9 Other leaders have gone over to the Anaheim Vineyard for training .
10 Some of the children came running over from the village .
11 Filth , dust , pollution , children getting run over on the roads , road traffic .
12 Lisbon purchased a new ground and in 1924 built a first-class pavilion as visiting sides started coming over from the UK .
13 Five or six young boys had come over to the fire with some scraps of meat and sections of cleaned intestine that they skewered with s ticks and laid on the embers to roast .
14 Marshals had gone over to the rioters , and Yggdrasil had had to override their control of the andrews being used to put down the insurrections .
15 Darkness has descended and the mosquitoes have taken over from the enemy mortars .
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