Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [to-vb] over the " in BNC.

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1 MAS specialists do not seek to take over the work of an existing client service team .
2 A rising could be put down ; even though the BNA might dissolve into guerrilla bands it could not hope to take over the country .
3 You have no need to worry , though , that this situation will be a permanent one , for as she recovers she will gradually want to take over the reins of her own life again .
4 Finally , when the war was over , the political groupings which had given the Nationalists their moral and material support would not only not disappear , but would expect to be duly recompensed and might even expect to take over the legislative and executive control of the New State .
5 He would dearly like to hand over the captaincy at the end of next August after having retained the Ashes on his fifth tour to England .
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