Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] 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 I do n't think so because it 's in the main street called street and I was taken over the first day .
3 This transformation provided the skeleton for the Christianity which was to take over the Germanic world , to mould it and modify it in turn .
4 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 .
5 He was taking over the enquiry into the death of Angelica Standish , he said .
6 Germany 's chief federal prosecutor Alexander von Stahl announced he was taking over the murder inquiry because of its links to Right-wing terrorism .
7 He was to hand over the French Vexin ( as the remainder of Margaret 's dowry ) and endow Alice with Bourges .
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