Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [to-vb] over " in BNC.
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1 | On June 22 , West Germany agreed to restructure over a 14-year period a debt of DM3,000 million due for payment by March 1991 . |
2 | Farag tried to look over his shoulder . |
3 | Christie was to be married at Easter , but Ann planned to go over in late February to help with the wedding preparations and also , to take Sarah and see her settled in before she started her job . |
4 | When Mrs Hollidaye said that she and Miss Lilian had to walk over to fetch the milk from the home farm , she suggested that Dot should stay and rest by the fire . |
5 | Somewhat reluctantly Mountbatten agreed to hand over the administration in Burma the following month . |
6 | At the start of the year Iceland agreed to take over 48 foodhalls from Littlewoods , including Belfast , as part of its expansion drive which will see 100 new shops this year . |
7 | Annual General Meetings are attended by several thousand employee shareholders and ( in contrast to the normally sedate company AGM in some discreet City hall ) NFC has to take over the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham or the Winter Gardens at Blackpool . |
8 | Major-General Gracey had to take over . |
9 | Far from finding hostility she felt people were very receptive , and her second in command was so competent Eva continued to puzzle over her own sideways move . |
10 | If America or Russia wanted to take over France 's place there , they were welcome to it . |
11 | She was just trying to find the right words to explain why she thought Mrs Richards would enjoy meeting Abuelo Freitas 's granddaughter , when Consuelo arrived to take over the evening shift , and the conversation switched to other matters . |
12 | As soon as he was out of uniform , Connor applied to take over the management of the public-house from his parents — Mam and Da were getting on in years , and Da was n't a well man — but the Brewery were not prepared to lease the pub to a bachelor . |
13 | The communists within the CPKI moved to take over as much power as they could for themselves in August-September and this , too , weakened the KPR . |
14 | Then Uncle Fred moved to take over a bigger camp for displaced persons at Bideford . |
15 | Robert wanted to go over to him , but judged it best to stay where he was . |
16 | 1947 South Africa refuses to hand over mandate for Namibia to UN trusteeship on the grounds that it does not recognize UN as successor to League of Nations [ see p. 8834 ] . |
17 | When Jarvis came to take over the house , although a good many people had been inside it and others had lived in it , the chair and the stool were still in the bellringer 's room . |
18 | As the engineers within the BEA began to take over direct responsibility for the power station sites during 1948 , the prospect of strengthening the organisation improved . |
19 | They had been broken off in 1946 following the sinking of two British frigates off Corfu ; on Albania 's refusal to pay compensation , the UK refused to hand over Albanian gold ( currently estimated to be worth US$18,000,000 ) seized by the Nazis during the Second World War and held in trust by the UK ever since . |
20 | Aubrey wanted to drive over to see Maythorpe House but there was n't time . |
21 | Fleischmann decided to send over all the equipment , cell , fluid and palladium , by air to Harwell for them to do the neutron measurements . |
22 | Irvine waits to take over |
23 | Since the Ffestiniog bid to take over the moribund Welsh Highland company in a High Court action various schemes have been mooted including one by the FR to re-open the Welsh Highland from the north end and the long cherished target of taking the line through to within yards of the tourist attraction , Caernarfon Castle . |
24 | ( Peg tries to go over to Abberley . |
25 | Large numbers of Moslem Rohingya refugees from Arakan state in Myanma continued to cross over into Bangladesh during March to escape persecution and the effects of a military offensive against rebel forces in the state . |
26 | dress making and er somebody would park outside our house , not by the drive , but there but to get in Les had to swing over and round |
27 | Joe continued to look over his shoulder to where the figure in the distance had become a mere speck . |
28 | LIPMAN SET TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD . |
29 | And so Felix offered to take over the wheel and drive for a while . |
30 | ‘ Let's hope that the prospect of becoming Libyan citizens will frighten Venetians into swiftly solving the problems that Gaddafi wants to take over . ’ |