Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the city was aflame , and bitter fighting had taken over the downtown suburbs . |
| 2 | After the execution of Xavier de Chavigny , the German High Command had taken over the house and gardens at St-Cloud and used the beautiful late-seventeenth-century mansion to quarter troops . |
| 3 | I mean I , I was quite fascinated having lunch one day with a journ a Melbourne journalist erm and this was about six months after Murdoch had taken over the Melbourne Sun all this and we were chatting away and I actually threw in the stuff which were saying about how papers are there to make profits these days so that 's what drives them and that journalists journalists on newspapers such as Murdoch 's papers , write what they 're supposed to write and she and I got quite out of with one another and and the bottom liner was that she , she absolutely totally and utterly denied what we were saying and I said to her okay if you were given a story to write you know and it was opposite to how you would view it , what would you do and she said oh well I , I would have to write it and the issue with the Murdoch papers and it 's quite interesting because I mean I 'm sure you can with other newspapers but I , I 've just got a bit more is that Murdoch never ever writes a minute or a memo to his editor or staff saying this is what the line is ever . |
| 4 | In November 1979 the Iranians had taken over the American Embassy in Teheran and held the staff hostage for 444 days , only releasing them 30 minutes after Carter had left office . |
| 5 | Somewhat reluctantly Mountbatten agreed to hand over the administration in Burma the following month . |
| 6 | The museum had taken over the northern end of the building but the main hall of what had been Damiani 's factory , with its vaulted roof and tunnels , was in semi-derelict condition , leased on occasion to a firm of Iranian-born Jews who dealt in Persian art . |
| 7 | She was just trying to find the right words to explain why she thought Mrs Richards would enjoy meeting Abuelo Freitas 's granddaughter , when Consuelo arrived to take over the evening shift , and the conversation switched to other matters . |
| 8 | As soon as he was out of uniform , Connor applied to take over the management of the public-house from his parents — Mam and Da were getting on in years , and Da was n't a well man — but the Brewery were not prepared to lease the pub to a bachelor . |
| 9 | In the capital , Caracas , the rebels tried to take over the government palace and the presidential residence , La Carlota airport , the Ministry of Defence , Navy and National Guard buildings and the national television station . |
| 10 | Further complications raised at the symposiumover whether Mantegna or Antonio Pollaiuolo takes precedence in these crucial early years of printmaking threatened to take over the proceedings until halted by the discussion 's Chairwoman , Caroline Elam , Editor of the Burlington Magazine . |
| 11 | All the same , he was in no doubt that Matthew Glynn had handed over the contents of the cardboard box to Swayne with a view to some sort of deal . |
| 12 | Humans were still doing these jobs : the robots had taken over the skilled elements of the task . |
| 13 | Helen had taken over the ‘ Returned Books ’ counter temporarily from one of the juniors and looked up to find him standing in front of her , smiling . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , it was officially reported that on Aug. 17 three Croatian police helicopters which had been dispatched to Gracac , a town near Knin where Serbs had taken over the police station and were distributing arms , had been intercepted en route by two Yugoslav air force jets and forced back to base . |
| 15 | The Serbs had taken over the park , one of Croatia 's main tourist attractions , several days earlier , and had proclaimed its incorporation into their " Autonomous Region " . |
| 16 | When Jarvis came to take over the house , although a good many people had been inside it and others had lived in it , the chair and the stool were still in the bellringer 's room . |
| 17 | Deacon had taken over the head of the formation as the leader 's R/T was not working , and calling a warning to the other pilots , he swung into the attack on one Messerschmitt from the quarter position , breaking away to attack a second similarly , though in neither case did he observe any results . |
| 18 | It was announced on May 9 that the government of Byelarus had taken over the former Soviet troops in the Byelorussian Military District . |
| 19 | Tweed had taken over the wheel from Paula . |
| 20 | In Reggio Calabria , where a government commissioner had taken over the city council following the arrest in July of 25 of its 50 members on corruption charges , a further 22 people including three parliamentary deputies were arrested on Sept. 7 . |
| 21 | In the 23 August 1968 issue of It the plug was provided , next to news that Knullar had taken over the It workers ' co-operative . |
| 22 | Then my father decided to hand over the company to the young man . |
| 23 | TELEVISION personality Jonathan Dimbleby marked taking over the presidency of the Council for the Protection of Rural England by launching a £500,000 appeal to fund ‘ the battle to protect the English countryside . ’ |
| 24 | She had come to question him and , as had happened so often , her father had taken over the conversation . |
| 25 | The Hamadan clan , like the Jafaars , had been involved in a losing struggle against the Syrian cartel ever since Rifat Assad and Monzer al-Kassar had taken over the Bekaa Valley in 1975 with the help of the Syrian Army . |
| 26 | They were speaking minutes after Greenwich mayor Brian O'Sullivan had handed over the safety certificate to Charlton chairman Roger Alwen . |
| 27 | LIPMAN SET TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD . |
| 28 | And so Felix offered to take over the wheel and drive for a while . |
| 29 | The society tried to take over the Dunblane to Callendar line , then the Longniddry to Haddington branch and , finally , the Alloa and Dollar line . |
| 30 | At the same time , in some towns at least , bishops came to take over the duties of such late Roman officers as the defensores , who had been expected to defend the weak . |