Example sentences of "[noun] it [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the virus takes over a cell it takes over the master-plan or system of instruction of that cell and the cell is thereafter directed to reproduce itself with the virus already in command . |
| 2 | So absurd was the idea to Weinberger that he seems never to have understood the hold it acquired over other people , including the President . |
| 3 | For a moment it hovered over her thoughts then , with an ease born of long practice , she pushed it away and went into her dressing room . |
| 4 | Banc One sets basic yet strict financial targets for the banks it takes over , but it lets local managers decide how to meet them . |
| 5 | The X-Windows technology industry was worth $820m in 1992 , up 60% from the $510m it turned over in 1991 , according to a report by Fremont , California-based X Business Group . |
| 6 | It presupposes that either this government has all the authority it claims over its population or it has none . |
| 7 | WH SMITH has dropped its legal action against five directors it dismissed in August from Our Price Music , the record retailing chain it took over three years ago . |
| 8 | Tourism is now the largest single item in world trade and in cities such as London it towers over all other features of the urban economy . |
| 9 | In an unbecoming shade of battleship grey undercoat it took over the Museum 's service train for the last two runs on Sunday , May 24 and again on the afternoon of the 25th . |
| 10 | ‘ The time it goes over once in a lifetime — and you 're a criminal . |
| 11 | If I tried to give it more than one one word at a time it falls over and core dumps . |
| 12 | The rules and practices of the organisation relating to — ( a ) the admission and expulsion of members ; and ( b ) the discipline it exercises over its members , must be fair and reasonable and include adequate provision for appeals . … |
| 13 | The rules and practices of the organisation relating to — ( a ) the admission and expulsion of members ; and ( b ) the discipline it exercises over its members , must be fair and reasonable and include adequate provision for appeals . |
| 14 | Indeed , paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 to the Act of 1986 , which I have already quoted , requires that Lautro 's Rules relating to the admission and expulsion of members and the discipline it exercises over its members must be fair and reasonable and include adequate provision for appeals . |