Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alistair MacDonald , the director , has seen the play germinate over the last 18 months from roots in the Gaelic Youth Theatre summer school in 1991 and an experimental workshop production at the Mod Fringe in Dingwall the same year . |
| 2 | If goods have not been delivered within 30 days following expiry of an agreed time limit or if there is not an agreed time limit within 60 says from the time the carrier took over the goods , this shall be taken as evidence of the loss of the goods . |
| 3 | The old Gymnasium could then become additional space for Art , while Geography took over the old Library . |
| 4 | Working with Cadillac engineers , Kettering created the starter motor , using the flywheel to turn over the engine . |
| 5 | Formed in 1884 , the club took over the Rovers Cycling Club in Linthorpe Road . |
| 6 | ‘ For it was then that the Vietminh had in one quick stroke taken over the nationalism of the country , that Ho had achieved the legitimacy of power . ’ |
| 7 | The flimsy Geneva settlement , engineered by Eden in 1954 to enable the French to withdraw from Indo-China , was breaking down as Ho Chi Minh had begun his attempt to take over the South with backing of Communist China . |
| 8 | His active opposition to the Nazis , the leading part that he played in the Kirchenkampf , the struggle against the Nazi attempt to take over the German Evangelical Church , and his refusal to take the oath of loyalty to Hitler , led to his dismissal from Bonn in 1935 . |
| 9 | On April 17 , disregarding Nguza 's order that it should refrain from any attempt to take over the running of the country , the conference adopted sovereign status , and on April 21 the Most Rev. Monsengwo Pasinya was confirmed as chairman of the conference [ see p. 38662 for his election in December 1991 ] . |
| 10 | The Secretary of State threatened the recalcitrant authorities that unless they met specific targets he would use his power under the Act to appoint an agent to take over the sale of a council 's houses . |
| 11 | Barclaycard staff have been meeting to decide what action to take over the news that the firm is cutting four hundred jobs . |
| 12 | Only Phil Mickelson appears to have the talent to take over the mantle vacated by Bob Charles as the world 's best left-handed golfer . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He switched off his lamp to watch the cold , silver light settle over the church and headstones . |
| 15 | Alix liked to let her mind wander over the map of Britain , asking herself which interiors she could visualize , which not . |
| 16 | Even if the French do not succeed in their present bid to take over the last of the great American GA manufacturers , Piper , it 's hard to see what there is to stop them in their quest . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Mullins , who moved to the North-East to take over the kennels of the late Tom Whitfield in November after working as head lad for his mother , Linda Mullins , in Essex , gets the award after providing 15 winners from 61 runners , an average of 26.6pc . |
| 19 | Whatever happened , she would n't let her determination waver over the rejection of the abominable Draper . |
| 20 | In a Word , the paraclete takes over the role of Jesus . |
| 21 | The child takes over the mother 's view of itself ; verbal appellations reinforce the manipulative process . |
| 22 | Jim and Nan Hall took over the shop . |
| 23 | The row could end with the council taking over the running of the service . |
| 24 | And he said that , since 1965 when the science Research Council took over the telescope , the observatory has been collaborating more closely with university researchers . |
| 25 | The Ministry of Labour and Government Administration , previously held by Tove Strand Gerhardsen , was split into two , with Gunnar Berge taking over the new Ministry of Local Government and Labour and Oddny Alexandersen the Ministry of Government Administration . |
| 26 | Pauline was crowned Festival Queen taking over the honour from Margi Clarke , who held the position last year amid singers , stiltwalkers and members of the British Music Hall Company . |
| 27 | Jews or Zionists are seen as prime movers in a plot to take over the world , by destroying nations and manipulating the minds of ordinary people . |
| 28 | Can you really imagine anyone hatching a devious plot to take over the school at his age ? ’ |
| 29 | Together Sinton and Hero take over the Limelight every Thursday and offer a platform to new bands . |
| 30 | Peasants had shown themselves fully capable of organizing resistance around their traditional village institutions , and their determination to take over the nobility 's land was their own . |