Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new British prime minister , Sir Anthony Eden , who had finally managed to take over the reins of power from Churchill only in 1955 , was determined to try to moderate the hostility between Britain and her former wartime ally after the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953 . |
| 2 | You have no need to worry , though , that this situation will be a permanent one , for as she recovers she will gradually want to take over the reins of her own life again . |
| 3 | MR BOB Reid , head of Shell UK , yesterday agreed to take over the chairmanship of British Rail under a deal that will bring him £2 million over five years . |
| 4 | Might I just add to that that er I have heard that they also want to take over the Pembroke Hall . |
| 5 | On the positive side , parental support helps when it is in co-ordination with respect and belief in the coach who really needs to take over the job . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , working class women could still filter out useful information from a visit to a School for Mothers , and as the local authorities increasingly came to take over the Schools and Babies ' Welcomes and turn them into infant welfare centres , so they became more acceptable to working class women . |
| 7 | Finally , when the war was over , the political groupings which had given the Nationalists their moral and material support would not only not disappear , but would expect to be duly recompensed and might even expect to take over the legislative and executive control of the New State . |
| 8 | He would dearly like to hand over the captaincy at the end of next August after having retained the Ashes on his fifth tour to England . |
| 9 | In only the second year of operation , the ‘ jetless ’ Rendcomb Aerial Derby looks firmly set to take over the mantle of the Badminton Air Day , now sadly defunct . |
| 10 | Left handed people , as we all know , are all in league with Satan , have deformed brains , are prone to violent behaviour because they ca n't use scissors properly and are secretly planning to take over the world . |
| 11 | Left handed people , as we all know , are all in league with Satan , have deformed brains , are prone to violent behaviour because they ca n't use scissors properly and are secretly planning to take over the world . |
| 12 | Reportedly it wanted a leg up on the business to reduce its development time and eventually aimed to take over the whole project . |