Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] over the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Superintendent Mercer arrived shortly afterwards and I handed over the key of the Biology Lab to him . " |
| 2 | Reluctantly I handed over the axe and made way for him , then stood , stretching my back . |
| 3 | With a trembling hand I turned over the paper which was face down . |
| 4 | Opinions about timetabling motions have altered massively since I took over the chairmanship of the Select Committee on Procedure nearly nine years ago . |
| 5 | The latest and most thorough had been completed just before I took over the chairman-ship . |
| 6 | Well I took over the beginning of the year did n't I ? |
| 7 | I took over the chair previously occupied by Angus Maude , who since 1979 had carried out the impossible job of overseeing Government information . |
| 8 | I took over the family . |
| 9 | And when I took over the magazine I said let's just use the typefaces that they use in the newspaper and supplement them for some headlines , but try to make it belong in the New York Times . |
| 10 | I took over the poling . |
| 11 | ‘ When I took over the club from Connelly I agreed to give old Giuseppe there a job , ’ he explained . |
| 12 | And then I was with him for five years till nineteen The same week , nineteen thirty , I took over the business from him in Valley . |
| 13 | No — that would be too much to expect , she decided with a pang of misery that made her blink as she turned over the food . |
| 14 | She handed over the pawn ticket . |
| 15 | She handed over the corkscrew . |
| 16 | In 1885 she took over the management of the embroidery section of Morris & Company , her father 's firm . |
| 17 | And she was to , she took over the Queen when she out of the country ! |
| 18 | She took over the phone in a vain attempt to replace Dana , only to admit defeat late on Thursday evening when she was forced , reluctantly , to agree to Myra 's insistence that she wear the wedding gown herself . |
| 19 | But once she took over the directorship of the Institute for Chemical Research in Bucharest ( ICECHIM ) , she began to purge those scientists who had been foolish enough to cast doubt on her credentials or to refuse to ‘ co-operate ’ with her research . |
| 20 | But Sue is quick to justify the power she wields since she took over the editorship in 1989 . |
| 21 | She took over the serving of the tea and cakes and Jenna had the opportunity to study her surreptitiously . |
| 22 | When her brothers joined up in 1914 she took over the running of the Ferry assisted by some local boys who enjoyed the good food that Mrs Stevens provided . |
| 23 | Catherine has sung before — she took over the lead role in the West End musical 42nd Street as a teenager . |
| 24 | Graham Sutherland , opposite a whole page of contacts , enthuses in a 1946 letter : ‘ Your photographs are wonderfully good ; easily the best we have ever had taken , and I can see how important was the time and care which you took over the composition and lighting and the idea … |
| 25 | ‘ About everything that 's happened since you took over the club . |
| 26 | Because people who 've been in the press for quite a long time were using this before we took over the telephone system . |
| 27 | In 1948 , this became a Jewish town and we took over the building . ’ |
| 28 | Mr Ellis added : ‘ When we took over the line the state of the locomotives was not as we would have wished so we have embarked on a rebuilding process . ’ |
| 29 | Until 1948 the British ruled Palestine , but on 15th May that year the British mandate came to an end , and they handed over the country to the Jews . |
| 30 | Not so long as they handed over the pound notes — though smiling Clyde took most of those , the greedy sod . |