Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , there is almost always someone keen to take over a neglected historic building , so when a council serves a repairs notice , or the planning committee sends a warning letter , the owners tend to realise there may be some value in the property and either sell it or repair it themselves . |
| 2 | It was time for someone new to take over . |
| 3 | In many cases Eric found himself unable to hand over such miserable rewards to contadini who had risked their lives helping prisoners . |
| 4 | It 's not enough any more to have comfortable boots and something waterproof to slip over a jumper . |
| 5 | Is this a struggle inside Frodo 's soul , between his conscious will and his unconscious wickedness ( the sort of wickedness which might earlier have made him reluctant to hand over the Ring to Gandalf ) ? |
| 6 | Among other things that it is the teacher who has all the good ideas , thereby making it difficult to hand over responsibility for decision making to the children . |
| 7 | I mean it 's not as though you made a lot of effort , it wo n't take us long to nip over can always have look around that furniture place and our carpets I know that 's one of these cos I got that . |