Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] over [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord King has handed over executive authority at British Airways to his deputy , Sir Colin Marshall . |
| 2 | Omnibus 's simplistic script favoured show-and-tell over analysis but that dangerous moral — that these years were a triumph of popular taste in art , not a suppression of it — could be glimpsed now and then . |
| 3 | Kev Knowles has signed from local Jehovah 's Witness side Armageddon Wanderers and at his own expense has taken over match programme production , re-naming it the ‘ Whaddon Watchtower ’ . |
| 4 | As it was , however , the administration had taken over responsibility for this war ; and it had to work with what it had , making a just cause as best it could . |
| 5 | Whether Branson had taken over Virgin Atlantic or it had overtaken him was difficult to tell . |
| 6 | The TEC have taken over responsibility for the service in keeping with their aim to encourage commitment to training . |
| 7 | This , together with his proposed union treaty , which opponents saw as a breakup of the Soviet Union , drove conservatives to try to take over control from him by declaring a state of emergency — in effect , a coup d'état . |
| 8 | The Ayresome Park season ticket holder says bluntly : ‘ I think greed has taken over football . |
| 9 | 1947 South Africa refuses to hand over mandate for Namibia to UN trusteeship on the grounds that it does not recognize UN as successor to League of Nations [ see p. 8834 ] . |
| 10 | The evil god Dameron has taken over Earth , and is making mincemeat outta the good guys . |
| 11 | In the latter case the offender does appropriate the property because , although the owner has handed over possession by consent ( which was obtained by deception ) , he has not transferred the property ( that is , the ownership ) and the offender , intending to deprive the owner permanently of his property , appropriates it , not by taking possession , but by the unilateral act , adverse to the owner , of treating as his own and taking to himself property of which he was merely given possession . |
| 12 | In just three years fish and fishkeeping have taken over reader JAY CHANDLER 'S life . |
| 13 | In what was interpreted by the CIA and the Department of State as a post-missile crisis concession , the Soviet Union agreed to turn over control of all weapons systems within Cuba ( including surface-to-air installations which could be used to shoot down US overflights ) . |
| 14 | Beirut port , where the Lebanese army had taken over control from the militias the previous month , opened on March 15 after a 14-month closure . |
| 15 | In 1978 , he persuaded the Senate to accept a treaty agreeing to hand over control of the Panama Canal to the state of Panama by the year 2000 . |
| 16 | But the country 's army ruler refused to hand over power . |
| 17 | He began his second-half account by out-pacing Stuart Thresher to Quantrill 's chip kick after Bishop 's thumping tackle on Thompson had turned over possession . |
| 18 | On entry , the British Parliament had to take over lock , stock and barrel forty-two volumes of legislation passed by Community institutions . |
| 19 | DARLINGTON students have taken over production of the council 's magazine . |
| 20 | MATSUSHITA has taken over Office Workstations Ltd , OWL , a £2 million British software house and a world leader in hypertext systems . |
| 21 | The party won a May 1990 general election by a landslide but the junta refused to hand over power and arrested or intimidated into silence its most influential leaders . |