Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun pl] [to-vb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is understood businessmen in the Holywood , Bangor and Newtownards areas of North Down are coming under increasing pressure from UVF figures to hand over weekly sums of cash . |
| 2 | When we 're in Scotland , we regularly pay for Northern Ireland producers to come over and talk to us . |
| 3 | Northumberland quilts to toss over chairs start at £70 . |
| 4 | As Nina Fishman ( 1980 ) has pointed out , despite the undoubted idealism and enthusiasm of committed trade unionists in these industries there was considerable reluctance among NUM members to go over to the National Coal Board , to run ‘ their ’ industry . |
| 5 | In 1932 the government sent commissioners into Rotherham and Durham councils to take over their public assistance committees when they refused to operate the means test as rigorously as the centre wished . |
| 6 | Chancellor Norman Lamont is expected to be the big loser in a reshuffle with either Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke or Transport Secretary John MacGregor favourites to take over . |
| 7 | New legislation may allow inner London boroughs to take over education , perhaps on a piecemeal basis . |