Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh pn] take over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Company For Henry look like the original lunatics who took over the asylum — all shaven heads and murderous expressions . |
| 2 | Future pension rates will be at the mercy of employers who take over subsidiaries of the Scottish Bus Group . |
| 3 | Future pension rates will be at the mercy of employers who take over subsidiaries of the Scottish Bus Group . |
| 4 | That was the message from the cyclists who took over one of Oxford 's busiest rouundabouts at the the height of rush hour . |
| 5 | That was the message from the cyclists who took over one of Oxford 's busiest rouundabouts at the the height of rush hour . |
| 6 | Reporters who approached the hotel just after dawn yesterday said there was no sign of the rebels who took over part of the hotel in the exclusive Escalon district of the capital . |
| 7 | Like the crooks pursued by the hero in Calling Bulldog Drummond ( 1951 ) , for whom ‘ life in peacetime seemed unbearably flat ’ , or the ex-officers who take over their old ship for smuggling runs across the Channel in the Ship that Died of Shame ( 1955 ) , or The League of Gentlemen ( 1960 ) , for whom robbing a bank promises their ‘ finest hour ’ , many filmmakers seemed to feel that there was nothing to do , now the war was over and the hopes of peace had faded , than go back to the site of old glories . |
| 8 | This was privately admitted by senior officers who took over the running of the fund two years ago , and after an inquiry by the Charity Commission more than £3,000 was repaid from regimental funds . |
| 9 | According to Vince Aletti , writing in Rolling Stone in 1973 , some of the earliest records played in New York 's underground of ‘ juice bars , after-hours clubs , private lofts open on weekends to members only , floating groups of partygoers who take over the ballrooms of old hotels from midnight to dawn ’ were unusual imports from France and Spain . |
| 10 | A group of eight armed civilians who took over the radio station in Antananarivo , the capital , on July 29 surrendered to the armed forces after they failed to win popular support . |
| 11 | In no way had he been consciously sadistic over the earlier years , but he had a deep fear of women who took over , as his mother had done . |