Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [verb] [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now Dan seemed to have taken over . |
| 2 | All these activities suddenly came to an end when Chiang Kai-shek broke with the Communists after the USSR had tried to take over the KMT . |
| 3 | Leaving our Teutonic heroines behind , we carried happily on along the grassy ridge to Meall Corranaich , although a small matter of some concern was that Ben Lawers had started to cloud over . |
| 4 | It was as if the hunt for Lucy Ashdown had spread to take over his world from one horizon to the other and everything else , every essential concern and unanswered question , had been crowded out at the edges . |
| 5 | Victoria had been playing gin rummy with her , and Shelley had come to take over . |
| 6 | But then , what if Siward had tried to take over Scotia ? ’ |
| 7 | Antonia said if Mr Mellor had intended resigning over their affair ‘ he would have done so long ago — or would have been forced to do so long ago ’ . |
| 8 | From New York , meanwhile , Wilcock had begun to send over copies of EVO , which meant that the Australian had become more aware than most in London of the underground explosion across the Atlantic . |
| 9 | As the time for the funeral approached , so the RUC began to arrive to take over on point duty from the UDR , who then merged into the background but nevertheless maintained a discreet but ever-watchful presence . |
| 10 | Mitchell had refused to hand over his prints from Spain until Maggie came back . |