Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [noun prp] [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | In London , Eden fell sick and Churchill took over the Foreign Officer , He gave final permission for what the British called Operation Boot to proceed , ( To the CIA it was Operation Ajax ) Churchill sent an even stronger message encouraging the Shah to act against Mossadeq . |
| 2 | The world outside Whitehall had not been standing still since Thorneycroft took over . |
| 3 | The situation could have been embarrassing when Corinne took over — but it did not turn out that way . |
| 4 | In a moment the young men were proved right as Rose came over to oust them from her side . |
| 5 | The immunity of Swiss companies to unfriendly or foreign takeovers came in for a pounding in 1988 after Nestlé took over Rowntree , a British confectioner , causing noisy British complaints about the lack of reciprocal opportunities . |