Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] took over " in BNC.
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| 1 | And at that moment , the two people that usually took over from us came round the corner , poked their heads round and said ‘ Oh hello , fancy seeing you here , we just thought we 'd pop round to say goodbye . ’ |
| 2 | Late in 1939 Jack Radford was moved back to Toronto and he was sorely missed ; he was succeeded by Peter Aylen who proved a most satisfactory station manager for a year until he also was transferred back east and shortly took over the post as Director of Radio for the United Nations Organization in New York . |
| 3 | AS YOU CAN imagine , the dozen or so habitations , and their inmates , became very dear to me over the years , and gradually took over from reality . |
| 4 | He opened a shop there in 1961 and gradually took over other premises , including the castle , until today he has an annual turnover of more than a million second-hand books . |
| 5 | She joined the Boat Race squad last January and quickly took over the Blue boat . |
| 6 | I continued to chair the inquiry into pensions and later took over family policy when the much liked Minister of State for Social Security , Rhodes Boyson , went off to be the number two in Northern Ireland . |
| 7 | This was undoubtedly his eldest son , who served his engraving apprenticeship under his father from 1802 and later took over the business c .1821 in partnership with his brother John , although their father probably remained a partner until his death . |
| 8 | By 1985 GM-EDS was developing such networks in Britain , Germany and elsewhere in Europe ; it was incorporating pre-existing operations in its Vauxhall and Opel subsidiaries and also took over a Unilever system . |
| 9 | For instance , Jack Benny and his wife Mary Livingstone , Rochester , and the entire company of the NBC Jello programme arrived in Vancouver and practically took over our studios for days . |
| 10 | Having bought West Dean with their profits from the law , the Lewkenors built up a considerable wealth from the corn trade around Chichester and then took over as M.P.s for the city . |
| 11 | The firm organized catering at the Glasgow exhibition , the 1889 Paris exhibition , and then took over the catering at Olympia and the Crystal Palace . |
| 12 | And what of Malcolm Crosby … he teamed up with Smith at York … followed him to Roker and then took over and led Sunderland to Wembley … |
| 13 | In 1797 , Robert Owen ( q.v. ) met Dale 's daughter , Anne Caroline Dale , whom he later married , and subsequently took over the New Lanark Mills , which employed a thousand people . |
| 14 | Marion , who has worked at the Tour for the past two years and recently took over as Membership Secretary , says : ‘ We are pleased that so many girls want to join our Tour , but we are also anxious to ensure that they have thought through all the consequences and they are sure that they want to be a professional . |