Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On all three occasions , Stewart has handed over the gloves to Blakey — even though he is clearly a far superior keeper . |
| 2 | More news about Jack is the announcement that he has handed over the reins of the Midland Embalming School to John Davis who , apart from being a trade embalmer has a varied background in nursing , counselling , laboratory work and school teaching . |
| 3 | JACK Lee , whose name will always be associated with the Midland School of Embalming , which he founded just after the war and from which he has trained many hundreds of embalmers the world over , has decided to take more of a ‘ back seat ’ and has handed over the principal 's chair to John Davis , although he will still be ‘ in the wings ’ as an advisory tutor . |
| 4 | ‘ We are glad the owner has handed over the pictures of his own free will rather than selling them on the Western art market . ’ |
| 5 | Meanwhile Svidrigailov has taken over the suicide role , which is to say the blanket boredom has become positively terminal . |
| 6 | America is his favourite way of talking about the undiscovered country , and it shows that as well as suicide and blanket boredom he has taken over the flavour of Raskolnikov 's joke about getting used to family life . |
| 7 | Fr Rice has taken over the running of a detoxification centre started some years ago by a Mill Hill priest who died recently . |
| 8 | The special party congress , staged under the auspices of the 25-member ‘ working committee ’ that has taken over the functions of the Communist SED will last through the weekend . |
| 9 | The special party congress , staged under the auspices of the 25-member ‘ working committee ’ that has taken over the functions of the Communist SED will last through the weekend . |
| 10 | The special party congress , staged under the auspices of the 25-member ‘ working committee ’ that has taken over the functions of the Communist SED will last through the weekend . |
| 11 | With its departure and the collapse of the junk market , no one else has taken over the role . |
| 12 | Again , the frequency of masturbation is perhaps highest among older males recently defeated by a newcomer male who has taken over the sexual role in his harem . |
| 13 | Zon International has announced that it has taken over the UK distributorship for Solar lighting products . |
| 14 | Once again , the counter-revolution has taken over the key concepts of this approach and turned them on their head . |
| 15 | Berliner Bank has taken over the Berliner Stadtbank , which emerged from the break-up of the former east German state bank . |
| 16 | Elastogran Polyurethane 's machine construction division , a subsidiary of BASF , has taken over the polyurethane technology product sector of Kloeckner Ferromatik Desma . |
| 17 | The Neighbourhood Watch Committee provides a regular newsletter for the village and has taken over the distribution of Christmas parcels to the pensioners . |
| 18 | Neil Gray , a burly farmer from Morrinsville , has taken over the post of All Black manager from John Sturgeon , who was not available . |
| 19 | Since Jim Henson 's sudden , untimely death his son Brian has taken over the company reins and continues the great tradition by trundling out Kermit as Bob Cratchit , Miss Piggy as Emily Cratchit , Fozzie Bear as Fozziwig , Rizzo The Rat as Himself and The Great Gonzo as narrator Mr Dickens . |
| 20 | NEWLY-promoted Det Chief Inspector Mike Paddon has taken over the job and office of his retiring twin Terry at Exeter police HQ . |
| 21 | His absence has given a rare opportunity to his deputy and political rival , Zhu Rongji , who has taken over the reins of government . |
| 22 | He is chairman of the authority that has taken over the 16,200 hectare ( 40,000 acre ) site and mayor of Olongapo City , the town that grew up alongside the base . |
| 23 | Analyst Judith Hurwitz , now running her own shop , Hurwitz Consulting Group , has taken over the multimedia newsletter Media Letter from Myriad Technologies to add to its own Tool Watch . |
| 24 | Subsequent of that of course to meet the need we had Stage Directions come into being very vibrant thrusting young people theatre 's company and really what 's happen is that Stage Directions in part anyway has taken over the mantle of the old Harlow youth theatre . |
| 25 | Ernst Beyeler , doyen of Basel dealers , has taken over the Kunstmuseum and the Kunsthalle to connect paintings with sculpture |
| 26 | To cap it all , the Devil has taken over the church and sits impaled on the spire with a long snaky whip sorting out anyone who 's left . |
| 27 | One has the odd title of the Boulevard du B.A.B. , revealing that it has taken over the line of the old tramway , the Bayonne-Anglet-Biarritz ; the other , further back from the coast , is the N10 , once the crowded highway along which French motorists hurtled into northern Spain but now a gentler place to drive , the motorway having supplanted it . |
| 28 | I would hate to have to tell him that a new type of gentleman has taken over the clubs and boardrooms , a man who does not consider dishonesty the property of the criminal classes and who , moreover , believes that the notion of the gentleman is negotiable . |
| 29 | In his absence , fellow director Mr Pahdra Singh , well known proprietor of the 8-Day Superette and Pahdra 's Palace take-away , has taken over the day-to-day business of chairman . |
| 30 | This is because all possible fictions of scientific progress are virtual in present-day technology which has taken over the function of ‘ productive ’ simulation . |