Example sentences of "the [adj] [verb] over the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Vichy French fled , de Gaulle 's Free French and the British took over the capital . |
| 2 | It will allow the MDC to hand over the land at Herculaneum Dock to private companies which would finance development projects in return . |
| 3 | The latter took over the kingship and established himself in power , until he was overthrown by Chlodomer 's brothers , Childebert and Chlothar , ten years later . |
| 4 | In 9a ) , for consideration of the representative volume element , Hill calculates the volume average of for example the stress as the integral taken over the volume , divided by that volume . |
| 5 | Morris translated sagas , the Irish took over the business for a few years ; Henry James led , or rather preceded , the novelists , and then the Britons resigned en bloc ; the language is now in the keeping of the Irish ( Yeats and Joyce ) ; apart from Yeats , since the death of Hardy , poetry is being written by Americans . |