Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh pn] take over " in BNC.
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| 1 | L'Auberge expanded , necessitating the employment of Arnold , a young chef who took over most of the day-to-day running of the kitchen , and Olive , a restaurant manageress who , like almost all the waitresses , lived locally and had been trained on the job by George . |
| 2 | The four-part series includes a king crowned late in life , a PM who took over in mid-term and a princess snubbed after being pictured on holiday with another man . |
| 3 | Company For Henry look like the original lunatics who took over the asylum — all shaven heads and murderous expressions . |
| 4 | Future pension rates will be at the mercy of employers who take over subsidiaries of the Scottish Bus Group . |
| 5 | Future pension rates will be at the mercy of employers who take over subsidiaries of the Scottish Bus Group . |
| 6 | He may not be able to call upon the driver who took over the car to support his defence and to help him discharge the balance of probabilities in his favour , because that driver would not want to expose himself to the criminal charges of aggravated car theft . |
| 7 | That was the message from the cyclists who took over one of Oxford 's busiest rouundabouts at the the height of rush hour . |
| 8 | That was the message from the cyclists who took over one of Oxford 's busiest rouundabouts at the the height of rush hour . |
| 9 | The newly-appointed C E O , Gary who took over at the end of the year when Gill retired has been very involved in these restructuring efforts and has been working very effectively and is on top of the situation , and although three swallows may not make a summer , I can at least tell you that Camco has traded profitably in each of the first three months of nineteen ninety three and now I 'd like to hand you over to Frank , who will talk about the rest of our business . |
| 10 | Reporters who approached the hotel just after dawn yesterday said there was no sign of the rebels who took over part of the hotel in the exclusive Escalon district of the capital . |
| 11 | Like the crooks pursued by the hero in Calling Bulldog Drummond ( 1951 ) , for whom ‘ life in peacetime seemed unbearably flat ’ , or the ex-officers who take over their old ship for smuggling runs across the Channel in the Ship that Died of Shame ( 1955 ) , or The League of Gentlemen ( 1960 ) , for whom robbing a bank promises their ‘ finest hour ’ , many filmmakers seemed to feel that there was nothing to do , now the war was over and the hopes of peace had faded , than go back to the site of old glories . |
| 12 | As Freud demonstrated in Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego , typical group psychology produces a lowering of the ego-competence of the individual group member in favour of the group itself and especially of the leader who takes over important ego-functions from him , principally those appertaining to the superego . |
| 13 | This was privately admitted by senior officers who took over the running of the fund two years ago , and after an inquiry by the Charity Commission more than £3,000 was repaid from regimental funds . |
| 14 | The receptionist who took over from Lyn in the afternoons came into the cloakroom where she was putting her coat on . |
| 15 | For Plato in a marvellous metaphor ( Republic 488 ) Demos was a huge , deaf old sea-captain , drugged and overpowered by ignorant riff-raff who take over the wheel themselves — true , except for the word ‘ ignorant ’ . |
| 16 | Thomas Brod , the current owner who took over the business started by his father in 1954 , referred to a lack of passing trade . |
| 17 | According to Vince Aletti , writing in Rolling Stone in 1973 , some of the earliest records played in New York 's underground of ‘ juice bars , after-hours clubs , private lofts open on weekends to members only , floating groups of partygoers who take over the ballrooms of old hotels from midnight to dawn ’ were unusual imports from France and Spain . |
| 18 | DAVID FRENCH is the man who took over the Marriage Guidance Council , renamed it Relate and persuaded the Princess of Wales to become its patron , thus demonstrating that he was both tough and persuasive . |
| 19 | Gordon Welchman in The Hut Six Story tells an amusing yarn about the man who took over the administration of the ‘ highly intelligent female staff ’ of the Decoding Room and the Registration Room , and whom I grew to know quite well : |
| 20 | I was my own boss for a start — the man I worked for left after about seven months , and the man who took over did n't know anything about it : I knew more about the job than he did , so I had to tell him what to do for the first six months … in fact he tried to get the job upgraded anyway . |
| 21 | A group of eight armed civilians who took over the radio station in Antananarivo , the capital , on July 29 surrendered to the armed forces after they failed to win popular support . |
| 22 | It was said when he first arrived at Wigan that he had a great act to follow after Lowe but that becomes even more relevant this time for fellow Aussie John Dorahy who takes over the reins . |
| 23 | Moreover , Calvin Coolidge , the Vice-President who took over from Harding , was a New Englander of puritanical honesty who had won national fame by saying , when the Boston police went on strike in 1919 , that there was " no right to strike against the public safety by anybody , anywhere , any time " . |
| 24 | The benign ruler who took over , Major-General Bantu Holomisa , spoke at the graveside . |
| 25 | He expected to act as sponsor to Chou En-lai in the unfamiliar field of international diplomacy , but it was actually Chou who took over centre stage ( as The Times pronounced , 25 April 1955 , ‘ It has been Mr Chou En-lai 's week ’ ) . |
| 26 | Mr Condon , 45 , currently Chief Constable of Kent who takes over as the Met 's youngest-ever Commissioner in February , added that bombs still went off in Northern Ireland despite having the army on the streets . |
| 27 | Mrs Mills , former Serious Fraud Office chief who took over as DPP this year , called for : |
| 28 | It was the not fault of my client , that just as the Visitor seemed to be gaining the trust of the young person who is the subject of this enquiry ( she was a child when the case was first brought to their attention as in need of care and protection but is now classed as a young person ) she was transferred because of area reorganisation undertaken in response to changes in government policy , and that the officer who took over the case was hospitalised shortly after she assumed her new duties . |
| 29 | In no way had he been consciously sadistic over the earlier years , but he had a deep fear of women who took over , as his mother had done . |
| 30 | It was Branwell , who suggested that the Harworth parsonage should publish its own magazine , but after the third issue , it was Charlotte who took over the leadership from him . |