Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [verb] over the " in BNC.
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1 | A week later I was called back to Downing Street by Margaret Thatcher and told that I was taking over the Department of Health and Social Security and also the question-and-answer session . |
2 | I do n't think so because it 's in the main street called street and I was taken over the first day . |
3 | On 26th May , Hunt came to see him and said that he was taking over the purchase negotiations for the Downing Street scheme , and particularly upset Pennethorne by producing one of Pennethorne 's drawings to assist him in the work . |
4 | He was taking over the enquiry into the death of Angelica Standish , he said . |
5 | Germany 's chief federal prosecutor Alexander von Stahl announced he was taking over the murder inquiry because of its links to Right-wing terrorism . |
6 | He was to hand over the French Vexin ( as the remainder of Margaret 's dowry ) and endow Alice with Bourges . |