Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] over [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former Charlton youngster has had a harrowing time at Wednesday since his £250,000 move in January last year — but is aiming to finally win over the Hillsborough boo-boys . |
| 2 | It was financed by Lloyd George , without reference to Asquith , and argued that the state should gradually take over the land through committees whose purpose was to ensure that reforms were made to revive the economy of the countryside . |
| 3 | She would come back to camp after a day off , call in at the office to see what was going on , and if we were all running around like headless chickens , snowed under with miles of paper from the teleprinter , and an irate Wing CO was tearing his hair out because the visibility had suddenly slumped from three miles to fifty yards and all his boys were up there somewhere running out of fuel , Rosemary would calmly take over the plotting while one of us rushed out to the screen to read the instruments , or go into the screaming teleprinter to shut off the insistent ear-piercing bell which was reminding everybody within hearing that we were late in sending in the hourly observation . |
| 4 | When the civilian contract is in operation from July 1993 , Topcliffe will also take over the function of the RAF 's Chipmunk-equipped Elementary Flying Training School , currently based at RAF Swinderby in Lincolnshire . |
| 5 | He can also take over the parenting role and provide her with respite from the rigours of what is a twenty-four-hour-a-day job . |
| 6 | Alsys will also take over the Ada/SoftBench offering along with a suite of Ada bindings to HP-UX , X Library , X Toolkit and Motif . |
| 7 | Amer Midani , the wealthy Lebanese businessman who sits on the United board , is still favourite to eventually take over the club , and to install Bobby Charlton as chairman . |
| 8 | Edward Plantagenet of England , disgusted at his minion Balliol 's miserable failure at Annan , had announced that he himself would now take over the subjugation of Scotland , despite the Treaty of Northampton , and was presently assembling a great army to bring north with him . |
| 9 | The Government will now take over the Student Loans Company , the Glasgow-based firm set up to lend and collect repayments on the Treasury-financed loans . |
| 10 | There is an understanding that BBDO will fully take over the agency some time after 1993 , which threatens a loss of sovereignty . |
| 11 | The Army is expected to officially take over the base later this year . |
| 12 | IBM UK Ltd is likely to underwrite the construction by Mimtec Ltd , an electronics manufacturer owned by Murray International Holdings Plc of a new plant in Gourock , a few miles from IBM 's Greenock personal computer factory : the plant would employ about 400 people assembling personal computers under contract to IBM ; according to the Financial Times , some £9m of the cost of the plant would be met by an enterprise trust , with the rest from grants ; IBM would ultimately take over the plant when the trust was paid off . |
| 13 | It was a face a kindly youth would gladly help over a stile . |
| 14 | There were two problems , the youngest children 's reading was n't good enough to manage the menu and most were too short to actually see over the tops of the containers on the heated cabinet to make their choice , because of this when they reached the counter they asked to have the same as the child in front making a nonsense of the notion of choice . |
| 15 | The debt charges on the recreation facilities , for example , would remain , whoever was running them and there is absolutely no possibility that private contractors would actually take over the debt charges . |