Example sentences of "[art] [noun] took over " in BNC.
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| 1 | At night the boiler took over , roaring and trembling until dawn . |
| 2 | Shiver as the shit took over , nudged her open , swelled , dropped softly out . |
| 3 | The Board took over the legal aid scheme 's administrative structure and most of the staff . |
| 4 | The Cymbalines , on the other hand , are the sort of boys you could take home to your parents along with their jangly , tuneful brand of guitar pop as-it-used-to-be-played before the hairies took over . |
| 5 | We were too pessimistic about manufacturing companies withdrawing from the the Third World as automation in the West took over — in fact there is much more manufacturing in developing countries now than in 1980 , as our next issue will make plain . |
| 6 | The , they used to put a conductor on for peak time and then about nine o'clock the rear door was closed and the driver took over issuing tickets , taking money and then perhaps the conductor would come on from about twelve or two and then again , perhaps from half past four till half past six . |
| 7 | When the States took over Panama , the troops stationed in Hawaii were put on full alert in case of a retaliatory attack . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She looked back and saw the man stop dithering before the houses , and cross further up the street , just before the cars took over again . |
| 10 | The coalition took over from the Vietnam-backed Hun Sen government which rescued Kampuchea after the demise of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge in 1979 . |
| 11 | ‘ I calmed him down and checked him over and then the ambulance took over . ’ |
| 12 | The dinosaurs took over instead ; and it is tempting to suggest that the mammals failed to seize their chance precisely because the dinosaurs beat them to it : in the first encounter , if such it was , the dinosaurs won . |
| 13 | Whilst the latter was away , the defendant took over her teaching duties and made use of his position to abuse the girl sexually . |
| 14 | Formed in 1884 , the club took over the Rovers Cycling Club in Linthorpe Road . |
| 15 | Christian churches throughout Jerusalem , Israel proper and the occupied territories took the unprecedented step of closing in protest for the whole day of April 27 , and the controversy encouraged an improvement in relations between the normally conservative Greek Orthodox community and Palestinian Christians ; the Middle East International of April 27 reported that , soon after the Jews took over the hospice , a Palestinian flag had been raised on a nearby Greek Orthodox Church . |
| 16 | The mortified referee ordered the game to end but then was persuaded to leave while one of the linesmen took over , a spectator taking the linesman 's place . |
| 17 | The following correspondence shows how much trouble the Wordworths took over the boy . |
| 18 | And it was right at the beginning when the demon took over … |
| 19 | And then the the Queen took over . |
| 20 | Often , however , it is clear that the commissioners took over an existing track between two villages and straightened it a little , without going to the extreme length of drawing entirely new roads . |
| 21 | One of them said : ‘ When the Communists took over after the war , some of the Fascists became the best Stalinists of all . |
| 22 | When the communists took over in 1945 , they were determined to industrialize and , at first , to eliminate the private peasants . |
| 23 | The Soviet Union has made great strides since the advent of socialism in 1917 and China has achieved a remarkable increase in prosperity in the years since the communists took over . |
| 24 | It was after the NCB took over and he was told straight that he was t'pack in . |
| 25 | When the CNAA took over the DMS there were nationally some 6600 students enrolled on courses , and that was to be the order of magnitude of enrolments through the late 1970s and 1980s . |
| 26 | ‘ Before the ivy took over it looked a bit like an African throne , ’ said Claudia . |
| 27 | At the time of its creation the NHS took over about 1700 public hospitals and about 1000 voluntary hospitals , a large proportion of which were facing bankruptcy . |
| 28 | In 1040 the Normans took over the area and its great cathedral churches date from the succeeding 100 years . |
| 29 | The Gestapo took over the Lichtenstein Palace during the war and it is now being refurbished for the federal government . |
| 30 | The Ottomans took over and extended the old Byzantine practice of placing religious communities ( for example the Jews ) under the supervision of their religious leaders , who were responsible for maintaining order , administering justice and collecting taxes within their community . |