Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] took over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luqa airfield in September 1940 , shortly after 261 Squadron took over the Hal Far Fighter Flight . |
| 2 | With its demise , British Rail took over the initiative . |
| 3 | British Aerospace took over from the Minstry of Defence and the work reduced . |
| 4 | Hazel joined the Company in March 1970 and after a few months took over the role of transport manager , in which capacity she has been responsible for keeping the Company on the move ever since . |
| 5 | FOUR would-be killers took over Ulster Tory Lawrence Kennedy 's home but were thwarted by his wife pressing a secret alarm button , Belfast Crown Court has heard . |
| 6 | The Society of Free Fishermen took over the interests of Newhaven and continued to look after the port for the next two centuries . |
| 7 | People embrace him as an all-conquering hero , but they miss out the fact that a lot of native Americans were butchered along the way before old Whitey took over the country . |
| 8 | SCOTTISH Nationalists took over part of the headquarters of one of England 's largest water companies yesterday in protest at the possible privatisation of the industry in Scotland . |
| 9 | The plane continued to Krasnoyarsk , where it was refuelled , and then to Tashkent , where a fresh crew took over . |
| 10 | In the past some psychologists have written as if there were a kind of biological , genetically determined ‘ bang ’ at the beginning of human life and that cultural learning took over immediately afterwards . |
| 11 | Latin music took over . |
| 12 | And froze , as another voice took over . |
| 13 | Oh since this firm took over , well it was not B M K you know but it was taken over by the |
| 14 | The 2-mile-long tunnel took over 4 years to build , from 1836 to 1841 , and at one stage 4,000 men and 300 horses were employed on it . |
| 15 | Its owners , especially when the Daily Mirror took over , were reluctant to make the contents brighter , less political , less class-conscious . |
| 16 | Seventy pupils from Clacton County High School took over the council chambers of Tendring District Council at Weeley recently to film their entry for the Citizenship Foundation Youth Parliament Competition . |
| 17 | After 1788 Baldwin took over the development of the Bathwick estate , a project conceived on the most ambitious scale . |
| 18 | The false idea is that French culture took over the leading position of Italy . |
| 19 | A few months earlier , in July 1953 , a new French commander took over in Vietnam : General Henri Navarre . |
| 20 | The Presidents of Yugoslavia 's six constituent republics took over from the federal presidency the principal role in negotiating Yugoslavia 's future when they began on March 28 a series of weekly summit meetings . |
| 21 | The major national breweries themselves began to either acquire or be acquired by non-brewing companies so as to form larger conglomerates such as Allied-Lyons ( formed when Allied Breweries took over the catering group J. Lyons in 1978 ) , Grand Metropolitan ( formed when Grand Met Hotels took over Truman Hanbury and Buxton in 1971 and Watney Mann in 1972 ) and Imperial ( formed when Imperial Tobacco acquired Courage Breweries in 1972 ) . |
| 22 | The Duart Point wreck was the first to be designated since Historic Scotland took over this function from the Department of Transport . |
| 23 | On Gelon 's death in 478 Hiero took over Syracuse , and another brother called Polyzalus married Gelo 's widow Damareta , who was a daughter of Theron the tyrant of Akragas , cp. above . |
| 24 | He went on : The worst happened when British-Indian forces took over Rangoon on 3 May . |
| 25 | Our link with Civil Affairs Service ( Burma ) in Delhi was Colonel Leslie Glass , and plans were so laid that when the civil government took over from the military , there should be an easy transition from the initial operation under the military . |
| 26 | However , when Stormont was abolished in 1972 and central government took over entirely the responsibility for local administration , it adopted the technocratic , non-policy making approach to its new role . |
| 27 | In 1889 the new Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway took over the lines and Melton was further developed as the new Committee 's locomotive building and repair centre . |
| 28 | The Second Vice-President took over defence of the Bill in the House and turned the discussion away from considerations of press freedom to a critique of newspapers like the Standard , which were owned by capitalists . |
| 29 | No woman has ever before become the ruler of Scotland and there are mutterings about the old Celtic tradition that when a king died the closest male relative took over the reins of power . |
| 30 | In 1837 Gooch was appointed joint principal engineer with George Stephenson and was responsible for the line 's construction , which was his greatest achievement and required many heavy civil-engineering works , including a two-mile tunnel under the Pennine hills , the boring of which from thirteen shafts took over three years . |