Example sentences of "[verb] over [prep] new " in BNC.
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| 1 | Administrative assets " primarily used for the purposes of the former Ministry of State Security/National Security Office " would " accrue to the Trust Agency unless they have already been given over to new social or public purposes since the above mentioned date " . |
| 2 | All council houses which have been ‘ bought ’ by their tenants will be taken back into public ownership without compensation and handed over to new tenants with the greatest priority — disabled black lesbian single mothers with a criminal record , etc . |
| 3 | There was a carnival atmosphere , with stalls and sideshows to tempt the hired men and women to part with money handed over by new employers to seal the bargain . |
| 4 | Povey and Sir W. Batten and I by water to Woolwich ; and there saw an experiment made of Sir R. Ford 's Holland 's yarn ( about which we have lately made so much stir ; and I have much concerned myself of our rope-maker , Mr Hughes who represented it so bad ) and we found it to be very bad , and broke sooner than , upon a fair triall , five threads of that against four of Riga yarne ; also that some of it had old stuffe that had been tarred , covered over with new hempe , which is such a cheat as has not been heard of . |
| 5 | go over to New Flats for a little while ? |
| 6 | I was nearly run over in New Palace Yard after the vote by the surge of Jaguars roaring out of the carpark and off to the country for the weekend . |
| 7 | They will hand over to new operators at the end of this year , and are likely to sell their shareholdings in ITN . |
| 8 | In May , Kismayo had been taken over by new forces , and most of the people from the original clans had fled . |
| 9 | The London jewellers Tessiers reopened on 5 November , having been taken over by new owners . |