Example sentences of "were [verb] over by [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 RIBA Companies Ltd , was then set up to oversee the management of these companies , the shares in which were transferred over by the RIBA .
2 They denied the allegations and last month three were bound over by a Liverpool stipendiary magistrate , despite the CPS successfully appealing against a decision that proceedings against the four be stayed .
3 Polly 's duties were taken over by a Groses ‘ bus of Northampton .
4 Gradually , as the armies pushed on through France , French airfields were taken over by the RAF and the Americans , and one day Jimmy and Henry were posted to a station near Rennes and that was the last we saw of them .
5 During the whole of its independent life the railway possessed only 2 locomotives , both Manning Wardle outside cylinder , 0-6-OSTs , named Cleobury and Burwarton , which were taken over by the GWR in 1923 and survived in traffic until the 1950s .
6 The earliest mention of a ferry at Seacombe dates back to 1515 but its advancement came in the latter part of the last century when the ferry rights were taken over by the Wallasey local board .
7 In 1903 the Wolverton ( Boys ' ) and Old Bradwell Schools were taken over by the Bucks County Council on 29 September at a nominal rent of 5s per annum for each school .
8 Structural faults sent budgeted costs soaring , work on transforming it into a leisure empire stopped and its £100m debts were taken over by the Hong Kong brothers in February .
9 After the war , outside calls were taken over by the NFS , who occupied a newly erected Town Station .
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