Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [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 | Major-General Gracey had to take over . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If America or Russia wanted to take over France 's place there , they were welcome to it . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Then Uncle Fred moved to take over a bigger camp for displaced persons at Bideford . |
| 14 | Robert wanted to go over to him , but judged it best to stay where he was . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Aubrey wanted to drive over to see Maythorpe House but there was n't time . |
| 19 | Fleischmann decided to send over all the equipment , cell , fluid and palladium , by air to Harwell for them to do the neutron measurements . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | Joe continued to look over his shoulder to where the figure in the distance had become a mere speck . |
| 23 | LIPMAN SET TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD . |
| 24 | And so Felix offered to take over the wheel and drive for a while . |
| 25 | Such was the state of affairs when Ostorius Scapula arrived to take over the governorship from Aulus Plautius , that it was seen as a serious crisis . |
| 26 | The TNI arrived to take over but were opposed , mainly by Ambonese ex-soldiers of the Dutch colonial army . |
| 27 | Fifty years earlier James Oglethorpe had revealed their existence , and now James Neild and Revd Dr William Dodd decided to take over where Oglethorpe had left off . |
| 28 | So much for the things Marc had to look over , she thought wretchedly . |
| 29 | Karelius continued to puzzle over these questions all evening and , as he finally drifted off to sleep that night , was no nearer to any answers . |
| 30 | We 've got the contract to convert the place into holiday flats and Collins wanted to talk over our arrangements for doing the work . |