Example sentences of "[pron] be [v-ing] over the " in BNC.
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1 | A week later I was called back to Downing Street by Margaret Thatcher and told that I was taking over the Department of Health and Social Security and also the question-and-answer session . |
2 | The next generation which is taking over the reins of industry is a generation who were not brought up in the same milieu that I was brought up in . |
3 | By early evening the company second in command had exchanged his helicopter for a Land-Rover , and was out visiting the platoons in their trenches again , before returning to barracks to brief the part-time soldiers who were taking over the mobile patrolling tasks for the night . |
4 | It 's probably because they 're taking over the er accident and emergency department from Clatterbrick it 's shutting down and it 's all going to Arrow Park . |
5 | After all , Bush has nothing to lose — he 's handing over the White House to Clinton . |
6 | On 26th May , Hunt came to see him and said that he was taking over the purchase negotiations for the Downing Street scheme , and particularly upset Pennethorne by producing one of Pennethorne 's drawings to assist him in the work . |
7 | He was taking over the enquiry into the death of Angelica Standish , he said . |
8 | Germany 's chief federal prosecutor Alexander von Stahl announced he was taking over the murder inquiry because of its links to Right-wing terrorism . |