Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [to-vb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the death of Muhammed Shah , Safdarjung moved in to take over . |
| 2 | And Serena — glamour girl of Fiat Uno adverts — tried best to gloss over her partner 's scruffy appearance at their first photo-call . |
| 3 | But too late , at another signal from Jean-Claude , the girl in the mack clutched her side and stumbled , then collapsed on the ground , and shuddering , turned over as the camera came close and moved out to hover over her face and catch her bitter smile as she died . |
| 4 | Naseby tried hard to read over his shoulder . |
| 5 | And erm his son came along to take over from him . |
| 6 | BRITAIN agreed yesterday to hand over £47 million in gold to Latvia to compensate the Baltic state for lost assets deposited with the Bank of England before the Second World War . |
| 7 | Military units have frequently carried out arrests and failed promptly to hand over detainees to the police — a number have been held beyond the 72-hour-limit . |
| 8 | The ARFU then stepped in to take over all applications regarding admissions and reinstatement . |
| 9 | Mujjaddedi had on June 21 threatened not to hand over power ( as required by the Peshawar accord ) to Rabbani , whom he branded as a Khomeini-like Islamic radical . |
| 10 | Nikos 's mind began automatically to turn over the possibilities ; as it always did . |
| 11 | But there was no time to concoct any story for , uncomfortable in her grasp , the toddler gave a sudden squirm , wriggled and popped up to peer over her shoulder . |
| 12 | Although the glow of the sunset was the most intense colour in the scene the darkening blue of the rest of the sky began increasingly to take over . |
| 13 | Some still persist in their view that Morris burnt his boat when he chose previously to hand over the captaincy , saying in effect that he thought his cricket was suffering because of it . |
| 14 | Irish keeper Tommy Wright did well to shove over a fierce shot fired in by Altin Reaklli after just 30 seconds . |
| 15 | ‘ Today would have been sheep day in the old days , ’ the driver explained , as he hurried in to take over from his wife at the bar . |
| 16 | Angy had professed to be delighted to hear from her , had invited her to her flat but refused point-blank to hand over the ring . |