Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [to-vb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charity was not sufficient or evenly enough distributed to take over from out-door relief . |
| 2 | After angry remonstrances in the Commons a much lighter graded tax was eventually granted to run over four years . |
| 3 | The new British prime minister , Sir Anthony Eden , who had finally managed to take over the reins of power from Churchill only in 1955 , was determined to try to moderate the hostility between Britain and her former wartime ally after the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953 . |
| 4 | After all , thirtysomething literary lyricists Amy Ray and Emily Saliers have already managed to shift over two million copies of their first two albums in the States without the use of heavy make-up and conical tits . |
| 5 | I do n't have faith because I have always refused to hand over my reason . |
| 6 | All the old favourites are there in a medley of hits which , like him , have hardly failed to age over 30 years since they first hit the charts . |
| 7 | still managed to raise over £10 from your cakes . |
| 8 | At the more local scale of the metropolitan districts , the changes expected for Knowsley and Liverpool are as big as -18.2 and -16.1 per cent respectively , while Gateshead and Salford are also projected to lose over 10 per cent of their population in this 16-year period . |
| 9 | Lou Macari is now expected to take over at Celtic on Wednesday as the two parties continue to discuss Macari 's wish to nominate his own assistant . |
| 10 | Initially they were areas of strong support for the radical campesino organizations and the FMLN forces , but they have now expanded to cover over one-quarter of national territory . |
| 11 | Winning trainer Tim Forster said : ‘ I am very pleased with Cherrykino , this is the first time he has really had to race over fences . |
| 12 | ‘ If we had really wanted to take over control of local government we could have done it years ago , ’ he said . |
| 13 | The only comforting thing about this was that , although they were well placed to take over my brain , they had , so far at any rate , declined to take up the offer . |
| 14 | Fortunately , my spirit was less of a coward than me and quite simply refused to roll over and play dead . |
| 15 | But it 's your responsibility to see that your successors are properly groomed to take over . |
| 16 | With employees like you I 'm almost guaranteed to turn over a profit for my investment . ’ |
| 17 | Although primarily designed to win over Catholic waverers , the new title was also preferred by some Protestant zealots who argued that only Jesus Christ could be the head of the church , as well as by those who believed that Elizabeth 's gender debarred her from assuming a quasi-episcopal role . |
| 18 | At the Conservative Party Conference in 1986 , Norman Fowler , then Secretary of State for Health , produced a computer printout of 380 new ‘ large hospital schemes ’ : the list was so long because he had counted every programme over £1m , whereas schemes had previously had to cost over £5m in order to qualify . |
| 19 | In only the second year of operation , the ‘ jetless ’ Rendcomb Aerial Derby looks firmly set to take over the mantle of the Badminton Air Day , now sadly defunct . |
| 20 | Reportedly it wanted a leg up on the business to reduce its development time and eventually aimed to take over the whole project . |
| 21 | Soviet historians have subsequently tried to cover over this situation . |