Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] took over " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOUR would-be killers took over Ulster Tory Lawrence Kennedy 's home but were thwarted by his wife pressing a secret alarm button , Belfast Crown Court has heard . |
| 2 | The Society of Free Fishermen took over the interests of Newhaven and continued to look after the port for the next two centuries . |
| 3 | SCOTTISH Nationalists took over part of the headquarters of one of England 's largest water companies yesterday in protest at the possible privatisation of the industry in Scotland . |
| 4 | The Presidents of Yugoslavia 's six constituent republics took over from the federal presidency the principal role in negotiating Yugoslavia 's future when they began on March 28 a series of weekly summit meetings . |
| 5 | The major national breweries themselves began to either acquire or be acquired by non-brewing companies so as to form larger conglomerates such as Allied-Lyons ( formed when Allied Breweries took over the catering group J. Lyons in 1978 ) , Grand Metropolitan ( formed when Grand Met Hotels took over Truman Hanbury and Buxton in 1971 and Watney Mann in 1972 ) and Imperial ( formed when Imperial Tobacco acquired Courage Breweries in 1972 ) . |
| 6 | He went on : The worst happened when British-Indian forces took over Rangoon on 3 May . |
| 7 | As Ardzinba and a group of Abkhaz parliamentarians fled north to Gudauta , the Georgian troops took over major installations in Sukhumi , and Givi Lomanidze , the Abkhazian Interior Minister deposed in June [ see p. 39019 ] , was reinstated . |
| 8 | Iran was reported on Nov. 13 to have permitted foreign residents to return to the island of Abu Musa , possession of which had been in dispute since mid-April when Iranian troops took over civilian installations [ see pp. 38887 ; 39116 ; 39165 ] . |
| 9 | Large companies took over others and thus became more ‘ transnational ’ in operation . |
| 10 | ‘ The architect 's plans for the changes made in nineteen hundred and ten when the Priory was reconsecrated Roman Catholic and the Little Sisters took over . ’ |
| 11 | He presents the stories of each community , first as they reacted to invasion and conquest , then as they were treated a couple of centuries later as white settlers took over their lands , and , finally , how the few surviving descendants of these once-proud people are faring today . |
| 12 | It was increasingly polished during the reign of Louis XIV when the first professional dancers took over from the courtiers after the founding of the Académie Royale de Danse within the Académie Royale de Musique ( 1672 ) . |
| 13 | The few in existence up to 1706 had their administrative authority vested , as in the continuing case of the public parish roads , in the justices of the peace at quarter sessions , but from that date , beginning with acts relating to two stretches of the road to Holyhead , in Bedfordshire and in Worcestershire , independent trustees took over the administration of the tolls and the responsibility for road maintenance . |
| 14 | Both these concerns were in the Tilling Group of Companies and in a splitting up of the area and districts with certain other companies , the United Counties took over most of the local services , with the Eastern National taking a minor role . |
| 15 | Police said three armed men took over a house at Garvagh Road , Dungiven , last night and hijacked a white Transit van which they abandoned with the bomb on board . |
| 16 | Police said three armed men took over a house at Garvagh Road , Dungiven , last night and hijacked a white Transit van which they abandoned with the bomb on board . |
| 17 | The colonel promptly died of ’ food poisoning ’ , and other officers took over his trade . |
| 18 | These new bodies took over the management of some 200,000 civil servants and 8,000 armed forces personnel — around 40 per cent of the civil service . |
| 19 | Yer know that our ole boxin' Club 's gone down the drain since those new geezers took over . |
| 20 | Blackpool had been keen to develop the Promenade tramway as far as St. Annes , but this was defeated and the blue buses took over . |
| 21 | In other words the Iraqui forces took over the banks , they looted everything . |
| 22 | The immediate difficulties were caused by administrative and computer changes as local authorities took over the administration of the benefit . |
| 23 | The local skaters took over the running of the skate club . |
| 24 | Local Christians took over our cinema to show the film Jesus of Nazareth and on the eve of the opening , the resident poltergeist threw a fit behind the closed doors of the projection room . |
| 25 | Wild primeval instincts took over and her body responded to the deep thrusts of his , trembling and shuddering as his rhythm spun her higher and higher . |