Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unions tried to take over the country . |
| 2 | I tried to take over the kitchen , but in this I was thwarted by my father who had his own ideas about food , and who would keep interfering and making a mess , whereas I preferred to clear away and wash up as I went along . |
| 3 | The society tried to take over the Dunblane to Callendar line , then the Longniddry to Haddington branch and , finally , the Alloa and Dollar line . |
| 4 | According to an Army spokesman , rebel soldiers " tried to take over the airport and [ Omdurman ] radio station in a rather pathetic way " , before being overpowered by loyalist troops . |
| 5 | Also on May 2 another Croatian policeman was killed in the mainly Croatian coastal village of Polaca when Serbian police tried to take over the Croatian-manned police station ; and a helicopter carrying among others the Vice-President of the Croatian Federal Assembly , Vladimir Seks , was fired on and forced to make an emergency landing after it took off from Kijevo . |
| 6 | In the capital , Caracas , the rebels tried to take over the government palace and the presidential residence , La Carlota airport , the Ministry of Defence , Navy and National Guard buildings and the national television station . |
| 7 | I wandered ail over the city , getting lost then finding myself again where I had started . |
| 8 | That was the filthy coastal town smelling of fish oil where I 'd taken over the driving . |
| 9 | Ross , who 'd taken over the industrial empire founded by his father , Sir David Wyndham , had been planning to develop and broaden the company 's overseas operations . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , working class women could still filter out useful information from a visit to a School for Mothers , and as the local authorities increasingly came to take over the Schools and Babies ' Welcomes and turn them into infant welfare centres , so they became more acceptable to working class women . |
| 12 | At the same time , in some towns at least , bishops came to take over the duties of such late Roman officers as the defensores , who had been expected to defend the weak . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The Italians fought with great courage , especially in 1917 when they stopped a superior axis force that threatened to take over the whole of the northern part of the country . |
| 16 | Further complications raised at the symposiumover whether Mantegna or Antonio Pollaiuolo takes precedence in these crucial early years of printmaking threatened to take over the proceedings until halted by the discussion 's Chairwoman , Caroline Elam , Editor of the Burlington Magazine . |
| 17 | He declined to hand over the cash , no matter what was threatened , and he was too good a salesman to be sacked , so the dealing manager yelled over to the accounts clerk : " Deduct £50 from his month 's wages . " |
| 18 | In 1979 , as more and more pressurised water reactors were ordered throughout Europe , EEC ministers decided to take over the project . |
| 19 | Then my father decided to hand over the company to the young man . |
| 20 | And so Felix offered to take over the wheel and drive for a while . |
| 21 | A crisis may won develop over the late arrival of the board 's evidence on the manufacture of the pressure vessel , which will house the reactor core . |
| 22 | However , the two cardinals who did take over the musical reforms the Pope 's young nephew Carlo Borromeo and Vitellozzo Vitellozzi were men of intelligence and culture . |
| 23 | TELEVISION personality Jonathan Dimbleby marked taking over the presidency of the Council for the Protection of Rural England by launching a £500,000 appeal to fund ‘ the battle to protect the English countryside . ’ |
| 24 | Whether the government , which is collecting the money from the sale of the villas , was hoping Prince Sihanouk would come back , or whether no one dared to take over the house , Mr Sok Hay would not say . |
| 25 | He would go to see Joseph Fouché personally , and explain the position to him : that he had uncovered a massive international conspiracy of Jews who planned to take over the whole of Europe . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The Physics department moved out completely to the new building and Chemistry — abhorring a vacuum — expanded to take over the space vacated . |
| 28 | MR BOB Reid , head of Shell UK , yesterday agreed to take over the chairmanship of British Rail under a deal that will bring him £2 million over five years . |
| 29 | Gurder had turned over the leadership of the Stationeri to Nisodemus . |
| 30 | The fact that John had handed over the reins of power to Miss Doris and Mr Smith seemed a great honour but his stipulation that they should keep and maintain the name and reputation of the business so long as it was possible to do so proved a massive task for them in later years . |