Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [verb] over [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1918 Lymn & Rambush was taken over by the Power-Gas Corporation of Stockton-on-Tees . |
| 2 | Undoubtedly Richard was handed over to a wet-nurse . |
| 3 | Greece , Spain , Portugal and Ireland were won over at a meeting of Environment Ministers by promises that the tax will be levied only on energy use or carbon dioxide emissions above a threshold value linked to the community average . |
| 4 | Like Abingdon , Kemble is handing over to the army . |
| 5 | Mendez was looking over at the bar ; Russell down at his drink , as if thinking or listening . |
| 6 | Security sources said Major George Serhal was handed over to the former Lebanese president , Suleiman Franjieh . |
| 7 | In 1981 NORP was taken over by the Bangladeshi Government , so that the funding that NORP had until then received directly from UNICEF was now channelled through the Government . |
| 8 | Raoul Walsh was brought over from the US to direct O.H.M.S . |
| 9 | There is bound to be considerable upheaval among the blue-chip client list which Deloitte UK is bringing over to the new firm . |
| 10 | That monstrous bombard Mons Meg was heaved over from the Low Countries to Scotland . |
| 11 | The project report and maps dealing with the regional geology and gold potential of part of the western flank of the Cordillera Occidental of south-west Colombia were handed over to the counterpart organisation . |
| 12 | Soon after arriving at Marshall Malinovsky 's headquarters in Debrezcin on 17 January 1945 , Wallenberg was handed over to the NKVD , the predecessor of the KGB , and disappeared . |
| 13 | And the entire staff and management committee at Monte Samana were bubbling over with the news that old Mrs Richards had a boyfriend . |
| 14 | Eastcote was handed over to the military and the German seamen , after a temporary stay at the Alexandra Palace , were condemned to live behind barbed wire and fixed bayonets ; Alton Abbey had already been closed . |
| 15 | 1980 : UK Decca is taken over by the growing giant that is Polygram . |
| 16 | Every Thursday is given over to a drop-in day , which is open to the previous year 's group to come back or to any girl on home-teaching , and sometimes girls from three or four years back may also drop in for a chat or advice . |
| 17 | One such association was with R.A.F. Medmenham , the origins of which perhaps date to the early part of the last War when Danesfield House at Medmenham was taken over by the R.A.F. as its photographic unit , although the first reference in the Minutes is October 1953 . |
| 18 | Blake was beckoned over to the stranger . |
| 19 | Late 60s early 70s : FLOWER POWER : NME is taken over by the complete staff of OZ magazine . |
| 20 | To boost their works team , the management headhunted a host of England Amateur internationals , giving them factory floor jobs , before Briggs were taken over by the American car giants and their football ground was developed . |
| 21 | Open field sites in the vicinity of London were taken over for the construction of studios in the belief that it was heaps of brick and iron rather than organizational flair that explained the success of Louis B. Mayer or Samuel Goldwyn . |
| 22 | Donaldson 's for instance became a German prisoner-of-war camp ; the Royal School for Deaf Children at Margate was taken over by the Corporation of Margate and used as the Civil Defence Headquarters , Food & Fuel Office , W.V.S. Headquarters , Emergency Police station , among a number of other wartime departments . |
| 23 | He continued until 1965 , when the NCLC was handed over to the TUC . |
| 24 | He continued as secretary until 1965 , when the NCLC was handed over to the TUC . |
| 25 | Under a deal signed the following year , EPSI was taken over by a consortium formed by the Finnish chemical company Neste with the Portuguese companies Cortesi and Quintas & Quintas . |
| 26 | Telekurs AG of Zurich , Switzerland is taking over from the London Stock Exchange the professional customers of the Topic and Topicline real-time share information system : Telekurs ( UK ) Ltd will migrate customers to Topic-Plus — based on existing Telekurs services — from the middle of the year with the co-operation of the exchange . |
| 27 | PENSIONER Olive Smith was run over by a train — and escaped with just a small head cut . |