Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] take over " in BNC.
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| 1 | L'Auberge expanded , necessitating the employment of Arnold , a young chef who took over most of the day-to-day running of the kitchen , and Olive , a restaurant manageress who , like almost all the waitresses , lived locally and had been trained on the job by George . |
| 2 | The four-part series includes a king crowned late in life , a PM who took over in mid-term and a princess snubbed after being pictured on holiday with another man . |
| 3 | He may not be able to call upon the driver who took over the car to support his defence and to help him discharge the balance of probabilities in his favour , because that driver would not want to expose himself to the criminal charges of aggravated car theft . |
| 4 | As Freud demonstrated in Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego , typical group psychology produces a lowering of the ego-competence of the individual group member in favour of the group itself and especially of the leader who takes over important ego-functions from him , principally those appertaining to the superego . |
| 5 | The receptionist who took over from Lyn in the afternoons came into the cloakroom where she was putting her coat on . |
| 6 | For Plato in a marvellous metaphor ( Republic 488 ) Demos was a huge , deaf old sea-captain , drugged and overpowered by ignorant riff-raff who take over the wheel themselves — true , except for the word ‘ ignorant ’ . |
| 7 | Thomas Brod , the current owner who took over the business started by his father in 1954 , referred to a lack of passing trade . |
| 8 | DAVID FRENCH is the man who took over the Marriage Guidance Council , renamed it Relate and persuaded the Princess of Wales to become its patron , thus demonstrating that he was both tough and persuasive . |
| 9 | Gordon Welchman in The Hut Six Story tells an amusing yarn about the man who took over the administration of the ‘ highly intelligent female staff ’ of the Decoding Room and the Registration Room , and whom I grew to know quite well : |
| 10 | I was my own boss for a start — the man I worked for left after about seven months , and the man who took over did n't know anything about it : I knew more about the job than he did , so I had to tell him what to do for the first six months … in fact he tried to get the job upgraded anyway . |
| 11 | Moreover , Calvin Coolidge , the Vice-President who took over from Harding , was a New Englander of puritanical honesty who had won national fame by saying , when the Boston police went on strike in 1919 , that there was " no right to strike against the public safety by anybody , anywhere , any time " . |
| 12 | The benign ruler who took over , Major-General Bantu Holomisa , spoke at the graveside . |
| 13 | Mrs Mills , former Serious Fraud Office chief who took over as DPP this year , called for : |
| 14 | It was the not fault of my client , that just as the Visitor seemed to be gaining the trust of the young person who is the subject of this enquiry ( she was a child when the case was first brought to their attention as in need of care and protection but is now classed as a young person ) she was transferred because of area reorganisation undertaken in response to changes in government policy , and that the officer who took over the case was hospitalised shortly after she assumed her new duties . |