Example sentences of "[to-vb] over the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As anyone will tell you , it 's easy to go over the limit , especially at this time of year when people are preparing for Christmas and buying presents . |
| 2 | It took her no time at all to turn over the bed along by the rickety fence . |
| 3 | For filtration , I now combine undergravel with external and , as with all heavy feeders , you need to turn over the capacity of the tank at least three times an hour . |
| 4 | Working with Cadillac engineers , Kettering created the starter motor , using the flywheel to turn over the engine . |
| 5 | Nikos 's mind began automatically to turn over the possibilities ; as it always did . |
| 6 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , tearing the sheet in his hurry to turn over the page , I know you never reply to letters and refuse to answer the door or the phone . |
| 7 | ‘ Be sure , ’ said Alexander before the service started , ‘ to turn over the page to my grandfather 's lesson when you have finished yours . ’ |
| 8 | In his statement , Bush stressed that " we intend to turn over the administration of , and security for these sites as soon as possible to the UN " and warned the Iraqi government not to respond militarily . |
| 9 | Then say to the audience ‘ What I would like you to do as soon as I leave the room is to turn over the card on the top of this pile and look at it . ’ |
| 10 | She 's going around calling me a murderer and she 's invited this Cobalt in to turn over the place looking for drugs . ’ |
| 11 | Dunlop rode the Honda which Gawley has had all year and the plan was for Gawley to take over the bike and ride it at Donington . |
| 12 | It was at a meeting in February 1880 of Emma 's co-workers and tenants in south London that it was decided to take over the Victoria Theatre ( familiarly known as the Old Vic ) in the Waterloo Road , a hitherto dirty and drunken home for melodrama , and turn it into a coffee music hall for purified and teetotal entertainment . |
| 13 | A few years later , with Atari in deep financial trouble , Nintendo was able to take over the US market too . |
| 14 | Carl was destined to take over the duties and responsibilities of his father from an early age . |
| 15 | Based on profits of DM250,000 , ( £89,285 ; $155,375 ) made by the 1991 Fair , there are plans to set up a permanent office to take over the duties which , in the past , Association members have undertaken voluntarily . |
| 16 | In the case of some functions Whitehall has the power to take over the duties of a local authority if it fails to carry out its statutory obligations . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He declined to take the Home Secretary 's advice to close down the Daily Herald , and declined also to allow Churchill to take over the BBC . |
| 19 | Only Phil Mickelson appears to have the talent to take over the mantle vacated by Bob Charles as the world 's best left-handed golfer . |
| 20 | In only the second year of operation , the ‘ jetless ’ Rendcomb Aerial Derby looks firmly set to take over the mantle of the Badminton Air Day , now sadly defunct . |
| 21 | Might I just add to that that er I have heard that they also want to take over the Pembroke Hall . |
| 22 | She served as demonstrator in botany at Bedford College for Women from 1886 to 1890 , when she succeeded Grenville A. J. Cole as head of the geology department , thus becoming the first woman to take over the headship of a geology department in a British university . |
| 23 | The reserve force was established in 1970 to take over the policing functions of the disbanded B Specials and was designed as back-up for the regular force , freeing regulars from lowlevel security work in order to concentrate on both routine policing and high-profile riot policing . |
| 24 | This argument carried the day , despite Ramsay 's protests , and it was decided to send Keith , the Knight Marischal , as one of the major officers of state , to head the relieving party and to take over the governorship meantime . |
| 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 flimsy Geneva settlement , engineered by Eden in 1954 to enable the French to withdraw from Indo-China , was breaking down as Ho Chi Minh had begun his attempt to take over the South with backing of Communist China . |
| 27 | A management team at the Washwood Heath van plant in Birmingham said it was developing ‘ a sensible business plan ’ to take over the factory . |
| 28 | If there 's already a working phone line at your new address , and you arrange to take over the service on the same day as the old customer disconnects , it will be re-connected free of charge . |
| 29 | France would like its own ‘ Mr Space ’ , Hubert Curien of the French space agency CNES , to take over the reigns of ESA when he retires in a couple of years . |
| 30 | On one hand , therefore , McElroy is preparing for private companies to take over the reigns of the weather craft ; on the other , he is inviting other countries to become involved in what could be a link only between governments . |