Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kathleen and Jack ran to meet the ambulance , Kathleen taking over the bagging of one of the victims who had arrested in the ambulance . |
| 2 | The row could end with the council taking over the running of the service . |
| 3 | With a ruthless new breed of killers taking over the leadership reigns , the threat to the Roman Catholic community is now higher than it has ever been . |
| 4 | The former Soviet republics of Armenia , Azerbaijan , Byelarus , Kazakhstan , Kirgizstan , Moldova , Turkmenistan , Tajikistan , Uzbekistan and Ukraine were admitted as new members on Jan. 30 , with Russia taking over the Soviet Union 's seat , bringing the total number of CSCE members to 48 . |
| 5 | The Ministry of Labour and Government Administration , previously held by Tove Strand Gerhardsen , was split into two , with Gunnar Berge taking over the new Ministry of Local Government and Labour and Oddny Alexandersen the Ministry of Government Administration . |
| 6 | Pauline was crowned Festival Queen taking over the honour from Margi Clarke , who held the position last year amid singers , stiltwalkers and members of the British Music Hall Company . |
| 7 | With BSkyB taking over the lion 's share of the new Premier League the two presenters aim to inform and entertain the millions of armchair fans — and replace Saint and Greavsie as the No 1 pundits on the box . |
| 8 | Lucy Lane is at the local nick taking over the paper work . |
| 9 | The SLA 's release of 51 Arab prisoners from the al-Khiam prison in the southern Lebanon " security zone " on Sept. 11 coincided with Israel handing over the bodies of nine members of the pro-Iranian radical Shia Hezbollah organization , and followed the receipt by Israel of information about two of its servicemen missing since 1986 . |
| 10 | ‘ Your breakfast 's ready , ’ said the second mate taking over the helm . |
| 11 | Handing over the power to tax and spend means handing over the power to govern . |
| 12 | More recently , stories have circulated that mechanical or electrical faults in factories are due to gremlins taking over the working of machines . |
| 13 | The favoured solution , the nationalization of the arms firms , was generally presented as an anti-monopoly measure quite acceptable to liberals , not as ( what actually it would have been ) the state taking over the commanding heights of the economy . |
| 14 | Any firm taking over the craft would need similar processing capacity . |
| 15 | At the end of the Saturday debate we were in more disarray than at any stage since either coming to power or Margaret Thatcher taking over the leadership . |
| 16 | His place in the second row is taken by Scotland 's Damian Cronin , with England 's Rob Andrew taking over the captaincy . |
| 17 | Or , slightly less galling , Fyfe 's new company Hickson & Welch of Castleford taking over the company completely . |
| 18 | It was like soccer 's World Cup host country handing over the television rights to the visiting nations . |
| 19 | The daylight faded almost imperceptibly into night , electricity taking over the sun 's job smoothly . |
| 20 | In the review of the Structure Plan the County wanted to redesignate this for warehousing and transport services and had some preliminary negotiations with a large tyre and exhaust fitting company with a view to that company taking over the development . |
| 21 | On 1 September 1939 , the Minister of Transport made an order taking over the control of the railways . |
| 22 | FOOD group Hillsdown has announced a restructuring of its top management which sees Charles Bowen taking over the helm at Maple Leaf Foods , Hillsdown 's largest subsidiary and the largest food manufacturer in Canada . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Closed doors stopped the fire taking over the whole building in Borough Road . |
| 25 | IRELAND 's New Zealand tour marks the end of Ken Reid 's tenure as manager and chairman of selectors with Noel Murphy taking over the reins of office on Reid 's retirement . |
| 26 | The latter method may be preferred where , for cosmetic reasons , the parties wish to present the transaction as a " true " merger rather than one party taking over the other ; however , it is more unwieldy and expensive and is not often used where there is a risk of a competitive bid being made for either company . |
| 27 | I was just going to tell them about all the things that were on my mind , about my dad and about Jesus and about aliens taking over the … |
| 28 | What did I think of the prospect of an up-and-coming Minister of State called Norman Tebbit taking over the job ? |