Example sentences of "and [adv] take over the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Late in 1939 Jack Radford was moved back to Toronto and he was sorely missed ; he was succeeded by Peter Aylen who proved a most satisfactory station manager for a year until he also was transferred back east and shortly took over the post as Director of Radio for the United Nations Organization in New York . |
| 2 | Sometimes a family crisis such as the wife 's admission to hospital for an operation , or confinement , when mother-in-law comes to the rescue and willingly takes over the housekeeping , will draw them together , and help them to value each other as people for the first time ; but more often it is a gradual process , the slow demolition of long-held prejudices . |
| 3 | This was undoubtedly his eldest son , who served his engraving apprenticeship under his father from 1802 and later took over the business c .1821 in partnership with his brother John , although their father probably remained a partner until his death . |
| 4 | The firm organized catering at the Glasgow exhibition , the 1889 Paris exhibition , and then took over the catering at Olympia and the Crystal Palace . |
| 5 | Vincent would enter houses and tell exhausted women to go and rest , and then take over the family wash . |