Example sentences of "[pers pn] took over the [noun] from " in BNC.

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1 ‘ When I took over the club from Connelly I agreed to give old Giuseppe there a job , ’ he explained .
2 And then I was with him for five years till nineteen The same week , nineteen thirty , I took over the business from him in Valley .
3 In 1986 he took over the captaincy from Fletcher and led them to their third championship in four years , but early in 1987 he suffered a bad loss of form and the team slipped right down the table .
4 In 1952 he took over the captaincy from Michael Barton .
5 In 1441 he took over the work from two Venetian architects and supervised the work for the next three decades .
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