Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [verb] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The son of a dentist in Glasgow , he started farming in 1920 at Carneil , Dunfermline , but moved to the Borders in 1948 to take over the tenancy of the 1860-acre farm of Cessford . |
| 2 | The reserve force was established in 1970 to take over the policing functions of the disbanded B Specials and was designed as back-up for the regular force , freeing regulars from lowlevel security work in order to concentrate on both routine policing and high-profile riot policing . |
| 3 | He left school at the age of fourteen to follow the same trade , and two years later in 1835 took over the management of a boat-building yard at Lincoln which his father had acquired . |
| 4 | DEC has not had a top sales executive since John Shields left the company in 1990 to take over the helm at doomed Prime Computer Inc . |
| 5 | It took her no time at all to turn over the bed along by the rickety fence . |