Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] over [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's sixteen , old enough to take over the housekeeping . ’ |
| 2 | The other way to find out is to cover each eye in turn ; if there 's a squint , the bad eye will generally move outwards to take over the job of seeing . |
| 3 | The Ministry is due shortly to take over the countryside premium scheme . |
| 4 | Accordingly she wrote to her favourite niece Lilian Baylis , then in South Africa , requesting that she should return home to take over the management of the theatre . |
| 5 | Nikos 's mind began automatically to turn over the possibilities ; as it always did . |
| 6 | Wednesday were twice in trouble in the first half — Woods doing well to tip over a Marcus Marin shot , and Nigel Worthington clearing a Witeczek header off the line . |
| 7 | The poor man was here to get over a bereavement . |
| 8 | It is devoted instead to the worship of the charitable Rytasha , who is not content simply to hand over the cash but insists , in an unfortunate hangover from her Hare Krishna days , on posturing as ‘ a spiritual master ’ . |
| 9 | Each eye has only a narrow field of view , but it can be swivelled independently to scan over a hemisphere . |
| 10 | The only movement from the reader was the lifting of the hand every now and then to turn over a page , and Mrs Phelps always felt sad when the time came for her to cross the floor and say , ‘ It 's ten to five , Matilda . ’ |
| 11 | He was there to hand over a cheque to the charity . |
| 12 | Angy had professed to be delighted to hear from her , had invited her to her flat but refused point-blank to hand over the ring . |
| 13 | The second method is for central planning to make the master plan and then to hand over the outlines of a sub-plan to the departments who fill in the details of their own sub-plan . |
| 14 | It 'll also if we start to take action provoke somebody else to take over the schemes , |
| 15 | Some still persist in their view that Morris burnt his boat when he chose previously to hand over the captaincy , saying in effect that he thought his cricket was suffering because of it . |