Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [v-ing] over the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shortly after taking over the shop Alfred fell in love with the sort of girl men have fantasies about , and she seemed to respond . |
| 2 | He passed one to Polly but , instead of taking over the helm again , seated himself in her usual corner of the cockpit , stretching his long legs out and crossing his ankles . |
| 3 | Its chairman , David Murray , wrote to Mr Gillespie saying that instead of handing over the shares on the previously agreed dates , he could keep them until he was 65 in 1991 , when they would be transferred to MIH in one lump . |
| 4 | According to " diplomatic sources " ( as cited in The Independent of April 4 ) , apart from handing over the Lockerbie subjects , Libya was being asked by Petrovsky to ( i ) provide the UK government with details of its contacts with the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) ; ( ii ) make a written renunciation of " terrorism " ; ( iii ) close five training camps used by the Palestinian Abu Nidal and other groups ; and ( iv ) extradite an individual who had allegedly been involved in the 1988 attack on the Greek cruise ship City of Poros . |
| 5 | This led , through X The Unknown ( 1957 ) , which parodies the complacency of the authorities towards the radiation threat and Quatermass 2 ( 1957 ) , in which the visiting monsters come much closer to taking over the world , to the cycle of horror films that started with The Curse of Frankenstein ( 1956 ) , moving away from immediate contemporary concerns towards mythological narratives that touched some of the same fears and terrors . |