Example sentences of "[adv] took over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only took over the financial reins three weeks before the end of the financial year ! |
| 2 | She only took over the field 6 months ago and fears young hooligans are trying to drive her and her animals away . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | WHSmith did n't create Our Price ; it just took over the business . |
| 6 | Late in 1939 Jack Radford was moved back to Toronto and he was sorely missed ; he was succeeded by Peter Aylen who proved a most satisfactory station manager for a year until he also was transferred back east and shortly took over the post as Director of Radio for the United Nations Organization in New York . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She joined the Boat Race squad last January and quickly took over the Blue boat . |
| 9 | But Pubmaster quickly took over the lease on the Greenside to ensure an early re-opening . |
| 10 | In London he gradually took over the Underground system and came to control every line except the Metropolitan . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This covers the whole of the costs up to May 16th , 1908 ( the official Opening ) and when the officers elected the previous December , formally took over the working of the club and course . |
| 13 | A British officer also took over the Vichy commander 's mistress , a fact noted by a young British intelligence officer named Quintin Hogg . |
| 14 | WEU also took over the social and cultural responsibilities outlined in the Brussels Treaty , but since most of the original military functions had become redundant with the creation of NATO , it was decided that WEU could perform best by being directly incorporated within the broader defence alliance . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Dahl retained responsibility for the environment while the energy portfolio went to Rune Molin , vice-president of the Trade Union Confederation ( LO ) , who also took over the industry portfolio from Ivar Nordberg . |
| 18 | Nafissa Lalliam was replaced as Health Minister by Mohammed Salah Mentouri , who also took over the Social Affairs portfolio but another woman , Anissa Benameur entered the Cabinet as Minister for Vocational Training and Employment , replacing Mohammed Bonmahrat . |
| 19 | This was undoubtedly his eldest son , who served his engraving apprenticeship under his father from 1802 and later took over the business c .1821 in partnership with his brother John , although their father probably remained a partner until his death . |
| 20 | The great drive for respectability , which was led by the trade papers and various film industry organizations , really took over the whole publicity campaign and again became almost a defining characteristic of British and especially American cinema . |
| 21 | Well , I I was fairly new in the company myself so I had n't worked for his father for long before took over the managership or chairmanship or whatever he is , so I I 'm really not too sure about the whole thing but certainly for a quarry manager or quarry director or owner , he did n't really know the slate as well as the workers , and he was expecting things out of his workers and the slate , the product , that were really just not on . |
| 22 | Kirton first achieved coaching prominence in London and , on his return to New Zealand , eventually took over the Wellington side . |
| 23 | Page 26 James Neill sold : MMG Patricof , the fund manager , successfully took over the Sheffield engineering company James Neill after launching a £78m cash bid . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The compounds , known as gamma linolenic acid ( GLA ) derivatives , are produced by a British-Canadian company , Scotia Pharmaceuticals , which six years ago took over the former fish drying factory at Callanish on the west coast of Lewis as its principal production unit . |
| 26 | With the advent of the College , veterinarians increasingly took over the treatment of horses and cattle . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Mr Vigon then took over the Cannon account himself . |
| 29 | The firm organized catering at the Glasgow exhibition , the 1889 Paris exhibition , and then took over the catering at Olympia and the Crystal Palace . |
| 30 | George Wade then took over the studio of Sir J. Edgar Boehm [ q.v. ] and in 1891 his bust of I. J. Paderewski was so appreciated that 500 reproductions of it were ordered for the American market alone . |