Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] take over " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only took over the financial reins three weeks before the end of the financial year ! |
| 2 | I could n't have been more pleased by his decision , and told Granpa that when I finally took over the barrow we would n't even have to change the name . |
| 3 | So go going back to the dredging , did you eventually take over from your father on the dredger ? |
| 4 | She only took over the field 6 months ago and fears young hooligans are trying to drive her and her animals away . |
| 5 | Then she gradually took over the conversation , talking about her parents and the farm , saying she knew she was old-fashioned and some people laughed at the way she farmed , but she was happy with her methods and she liked the animals . |
| 6 | She inherited from her brother a methodical and intelligent Treasurer , the Marquis of Winchester ; and she also took over the conclusions of committees which had been investigating the Crown 's finances under Edward VI . |
| 7 | These days , when she occasionally took over from Annunciata and brushed Mrs Browning 's hair , she marvelled that a woman so much older than herself should still have such black , black hair with only a very few silver threads in it ( which she was instructed to pull out ) . |
| 8 | ‘ I did n't have to do a thing , they just took over . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I did n't do a thing — they just took over ’ |
| 10 | Rats will live in rabbit burrows but they usually take over one section for themselves and the rabbits leave them in isolation . |
| 11 | They even took over the small police station in the El Calvario district , the nearest to the main market , and executed a number of the constables who had taken part in the massacre . |
| 12 | Source C describes how they bravely took over the dangerous jobs in munitions factories , and how they joined or worked alongside the armed services , either joining women 's armed services , or working as nurses out on the battlefront . |
| 13 | The cast and crew were situated in the picturesque summer tourist trap of St Ives where they virtually took over the comfortable olde-worlde Tregenna Castle Hotel , while Peckinpah rented a small cottage for himself on the moor . |
| 14 | And of course the , or driving part of the mill I would n't say they completely took over from steam . |
| 15 | Although tree holes are the most common nesting place , stock doves have been found nesting in rabbit holes and they occasionally take over the abandoned nests of wood-pigeons . |
| 16 | He eventually took over his master 's shop at the Cross Daggers , Moorfields , before 1700 and this was given as his address in various advertisements from 1707 to 1731 , an address emblematically represented on his trade card . |
| 17 | John Hayward remembers well the breakthrough on the case which he eventually took over . |
| 18 | The SPA unanimously elected Kaysone Phomvihane , as the country 's new President , replacing Phoumi Vongvichit , who had served as President in an acting capacity since 1986 when he effectively took over from the ailing Souphanouvong [ see p. 35005 ] . |
| 19 | He admitted that mistakes had been made in the five months since he personally took over the government , especially in the slow pace of privatisation . |
| 20 | Mr Yeltsin admitted that mistakes had been made in the five months since he personally took over the government , especially in the very slow pace of privatisation . |
| 21 | WHSmith did n't create Our Price ; it just took over the business . |
| 22 | It just took over from the lack of draw on the estate . |
| 23 | It just took over from the lack of draw on the estate . |
| 24 | It just takes over . |
| 25 | whose printing business he soon took over . |
| 26 | In London he gradually took over the Underground system and came to control every line except the Metropolitan . |
| 27 | It also took over all aspects of the duty solicitor scheme . |
| 28 | He also took over some national functions handled now by the Metropolitan Police — Interpol , the paedophile index , public sector corruption , counterfeit currency , data on product contamination , kidnap and extortion and the research unit of the stolen vehicle squad . |
| 29 | He also took over the editorship of The Stopfordian from Mr. D. J. Roberts , the Second Master since 1978 , who had edited it from 1959 . |
| 30 | He also takes over the responsibilities of Overseas Director as well as managing the membership on the CHQ roll . |