Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [to-vb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last week the President instructed the Department of Commerce to seek firm proposals from private industry to take over the government 's remote-sensing satellites . |
| 2 | The scenario reads : pressure on living standards added to general contempt for the regime leads to massive strikes which cause the economy to nosedive and popular discontent to boil over . |
| 3 | We have asked the people who constructed this building to take over the theatre in January until March . |
| 4 | Indenbaum offered him some old pictures to paint over , but Modigliani picked carefully through them so as not to paint over any painting , however unimportant , which showed a hint of talent . |
| 5 | Furthermore Mr himself has said to me on more than one occasion that given the history of the situation it 's unlikely that we would get anybody of sane mind to take over the running of the two centres . |
| 6 | Can you really imagine anyone hatching a devious plot to take over the school at his age ? ’ |
| 7 | It was too far for the old lady to come over . |
| 8 | They were just finishing their lunch and Barton chose this moment to walk over to their table . |
| 9 | What he thought he needed was someone with the public fame to take over the leadership and to hold a candle to the great names of Lloyd George , Austen Chamberlain , Churchill , Birkenhead and Balfour . |
| 10 | A new service could set up by gaining enough contracts with major customers of the old service to take over . |
| 11 | They also nominated reliable people to take over prefectures and senior posts in the central ministries in Paris . |
| 12 | When he suggested that the European Monetary System was a German racket to take over Europe , he had to go , to the dismay of his biggest fan |
| 13 | That left Pitcher undefeated on 32 and the Light Blues to mull over a 133-run defeat that might have been much more comprehensive . |
| 14 | It made no sense for the British army to hand over Yugoslav royalists to Tito 's communists , he said . |
| 15 | She paced around the room thinking desperately , she needed free reign to look over her father 's books and records and to speak to the men in his employ . |
| 16 | As regards Monktonhall mineworkers ' consortium , it is encouraging that a group of ex-mineworkers have applied to British Coal to take over the pit , and I hope that they can make a success of it . |
| 17 | The injunction began a saga that was to run for two months , as Virgin scrabbled to find another bank to take over the role played in the lease agreement by Chemical . |
| 18 | Ardiles is believed to be top of Spurs chairman Alan Sugar 's wanted list to take over as manager and is expected to fly back from a holiday in Argentina to discuss a possible move later this week . |
| 19 | I 'll find an old cassette to record over . |
| 20 | ’ ‘ It 's funny to think that just this afternoon I had the idea of getting poor old Eddy to come over to the Gates and tell me something about himself … |
| 21 | Amer Midani , the Lebanese-born businessman and United director who has a 15 per cent stake , seems to be in the strongest position to take over if Knighton 's bid falls through . |
| 22 | He 'll often cut through this way to go over to Wellington into Crowthorne and walk all the way round . |
| 23 | He would have some time to slip over to London to act . |
| 24 | OSF is now believed to be looking for a commercial partner to take over and productise the technology , which is much-needed within the industry . |
| 25 | Larder , who quit as Great Britain 's assistant coach to take over the Chemics , will go to any lengths to help Goulding build on that promising beginning — and bring more success to Widnes in the process . |
| 26 | On one hand , therefore , McElroy is preparing for private companies to take over the reigns of the weather craft ; on the other , he is inviting other countries to become involved in what could be a link only between governments . |
| 27 | New rules to allow private companies to take over the running of key public sector construction projects such as the the Channel Tunnel high-speed rail link , London rail links and major bridge and road projects . |
| 28 | IBM and Hewlett-Packard aim in the medium term to hand over work from the Initiative to an FC/Open consortium . |
| 29 | We 'd arrived too late to enjoy whatever it was that the Sixties had ; and we were left the warm dregs to mull over . |
| 30 | They were because he could n't get a pair of ordinary shoes to fit over his infected and frost-bitten feet from four months described as ‘ the nastiest of my life . ’ |