Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes a family crisis such as the wife 's admission to hospital for an operation , or confinement , when mother-in-law comes to the rescue and willingly takes over the housekeeping , will draw them together , and help them to value each other as people for the first time ; but more often it is a gradual process , the slow demolition of long-held prejudices . |
| 2 | He also takes over the responsibilities of Overseas Director as well as managing the membership on the CHQ roll . |
| 3 | The first and more important reason is that he is likely to be transferred out of Bull within the next few months , along with other chief executives at state-owned companies , when the rightist coalition almost inevitably takes over the government from the Socialist Party after the legislative elections this month . |
| 4 | In the afternoon he starts by sleeping , then takes over the kitchen and insists on preparing extravagant five-course meals . |
| 5 | It then takes over the responsibility for verifying the design activity against activities and components already undertaken and designed . |
| 6 | hurricane has gone out of the news now , once something like that has happened there 's always another disaster coming behind that actually takes over the headlines , so , about six months , a year , two years afterwards they were still finding that in parts of Europe the general level of nuclear activity was higher than it had been before Chernobyl , why would that happen ? |