Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] [verb] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the second view , inspiration was mantic possession : the divine afflatus took over the voice of prophet or prophetess , and employed the human agent as a musician plays a lyre which has no mind of its own . |
| 2 | The retiring chairman handed over the meeting to the new chairman , John Sharp who , in accepting the post , thanked Dr. Watson for his tireless work on behalf of the Village Association . |
| 3 | The retiring chairman handed over the meeting to the new chairman , John Sharp who , in accepting the post , thanked Dr. Watson for his tireless work on behalf of the Village Association . |
| 4 | What he thought he needed was someone with the public fame to take over the leadership and to hold a candle to the great names of Lloyd George , Austen Chamberlain , Churchill , Birkenhead and Balfour . |
| 5 | ‘ Your breakfast 's ready , ’ said the second mate taking over the helm . |
| 6 | In return for a small share of the songs ' royalty earnings , the larger company takes over the day-to-day business of administering the musicians ' song catalogues while the musicians retain all copyright and control of their material ( see the ‘ self-publishing ’ section below ) . |
| 7 | Robert Smith was a relative of John 's first wife and found himself summoned by the great man to take over the accounts . |
| 8 | His active opposition to the Nazis , the leading part that he played in the Kirchenkampf , the struggle against the Nazi attempt to take over the German Evangelical Church , and his refusal to take the oath of loyalty to Hitler , led to his dismissal from Bonn in 1935 . |
| 9 | There was little change in relations with the United States , although in May 1990 the North for the first time handed over the remains of US servicemen missing in action from the Korean War [ see p. 37456 ; see also p. 38295 ] . |
| 10 | She served as demonstrator in botany at Bedford College for Women from 1886 to 1890 , when she succeeded Grenville A. J. Cole as head of the geology department , thus becoming the first woman to take over the headship of a geology department in a British university . |
| 11 | He was doing three tasks at once : checking the statements of witnesses in a report being prepared for the Public Prosecutor and at the same time turning over the photographs and diagrams of the house in Church Row which the SOCO had put together . |
| 12 | All this is followed meticulously if at a respectful distance by Doolittle 's seven-piece band , written for with a sure ear for tonal balance and a strong sense of the orchestra 's role as a virtual extension of the voice , but with little willingness to let the musical idea take over the action . |
| 13 | With coal supplies fast dwindling , Truman acted : the Federal government took over the mines and prepared to bring in the army to run the railroads . |
| 14 | Lucy Lane is at the local nick taking over the paper work . |