Example sentences of "[pron] it [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The North Ayrshire and Arran NHS Trust has told 51 of the 719-strong workforce at three Ayrshire hospitals , which it takes over next week , that their fixed , short-term contracts will not be renewed on 31 March . |
| 2 | Ferranti is now convinced that it was the victim of fraud perpetrated by International Signal and Control which it took over two years ago . |
| 3 | The European Space Agency , first proposed in December 1972 at Brussels , proved a more efficient tool in co-ordinating European space policies than ELDO and ESRO ( which it took over ) . |
| 4 | It ticks off a litany of mistakes from its dependence on mainframes through to the conscious suppression of RISC technology and the grotesque series of blunders by which it handed over control of PCs to Intel and Microsoft . |
| 5 | Since its acquisition two years ago of Consumers Gas of Canada , a company with nearly ten years experience in NGV development , British Gas has been in the forefront of NGV research — in which it invests over £1 million a year in the UK . |
| 6 | The UK Parliament is certainly not widely regarded as being at all competent in the scrutiny which it exercises over public spending , and few people are under the illusion that it is difficult for government departments to deceive MPs and Select Committees about necessary levels of expenditure and unnecessary levels of waste . |
| 7 | IBM Corp has now wrapped up the deal under which it hands over MAPICS to Marcam Corp in return for 1.615m new shares in its partner . |
| 8 | Oh when I had this one it went over |