Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb -s] [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adrienne Ring announced that she has taken over as Chairman of the Publicity Sub-Committee and she asked that all dates of rallies etc be sent to the office as soon as possible . |
| 2 | Zon International has announced that it has taken over the UK distributorship for Solar lighting products . |
| 3 | What is interesting , however , is that it has taken over ten years to bring about the changes Leonard anticipated . |
| 4 | One has the odd title of the Boulevard du B.A.B. , revealing that it has taken over the line of the old tramway , the Bayonne-Anglet-Biarritz ; the other , further back from the coast , is the N10 , once the crowded highway along which French motorists hurtled into northern Spain but now a gentler place to drive , the motorway having supplanted it . |
| 5 | Indeed , there are even rumours that he wants to take over BAe . |
| 6 | More news about Jack is the announcement that he has handed over the reins of the Midland Embalming School to John Davis who , apart from being a trade embalmer has a varied background in nursing , counselling , laboratory work and school teaching . |
| 7 | The group has since announced a reduction in staff of one-fifth and it has moved over completely to computer setting and direct input by journalists . |
| 8 | I went to all the lectures and they 're easy to go to , because you 're spoon-fed , they do n't sit back and they do n't philosophize , a lot of it , it 's all material on the board , which can be a bit boring sometimes , but we 've done some big course like quantum mechanics and there have been a few other theoretical ones which have been really involved but the lecturers have been really good , you can see how excited they are , and it starts spilling over to you . |
| 9 | ‘ If it means treading over sensitive toes , so be it . ’ |
| 10 | let's ask him if he wants to come over for dinner cos we do n't have dinner until half four anyway |
| 11 | " We 're to perch here till he decides to take over . " |
| 12 | That 's the only difference , because you 'll need these things to get release from the business , because it does take over your mind . |
| 13 | The thrust of their loose end , as of details like the murderer 's yellow cubby-hole — coffinlike , his mother calls it — and Marmeladov 's greenish-yellow face and the mortal yellow-black bruise over the heart after he gets run over , is metaphysical and apocalyptic , not documentary . |
| 14 | Part of his stock-in-trade when he wants to take over an organization . |
| 15 | Fred will feel the benefit when he comes to take over the business . ’ |
| 16 | So these people are important to you , so it 's vitally important that you do n't let them down , because initially this business has a strange effect on you in as much as it seems to take over your mind , does n't it ? |
| 17 | But in his first televised interview since becoming president-elect , Clinton said he would focus ‘ like a laser beam ’ on the US economy as he prepares to take over the White House on January 20 . |