Example sentences of "[vb pp] over the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gurder had turned over the leadership of the Stationeri to Nisodemus . |
| 2 | The man slowly turned over the page of his magazine . |
| 3 | Fishermen willingly co-operated with the students , passed on information about dolphin sightings , and even handed over the bodies of dolphins accidentally taken in their fishing nets . |
| 4 | The fact that John had handed over the reins of power to Miss Doris and Mr Smith seemed a great honour but his stipulation that they should keep and maintain the name and reputation of the business so long as it was possible to do so proved a massive task for them in later years . |
| 5 | More news about Jack is the announcement that he has handed over the reins of the Midland Embalming School to John Davis who , apart from being a trade embalmer has a varied background in nursing , counselling , laboratory work and school teaching . |
| 6 | ‘ We are glad the owner has handed over the pictures of his own free will rather than selling them on the Western art market . ’ |
| 7 | The chief executives of the three firms have been discussing the plan for five months and have now handed over the task of implementing the grand design to their operating systems managers . |
| 8 | The chief executives of the three firms have been discussing the plan for five months and have now handed over the task of implementing the grand design to their operating systems managers . |
| 9 | The Grant dynasty is assured , with Mr Sandy having recently handed over the post of managing director to his nephew . |
| 10 | All the same , he was in no doubt that Matthew Glynn had handed over the contents of the cardboard box to Swayne with a view to some sort of deal . |
| 11 | He had taken over the management of his sister 's bakery . |
| 12 | The special party congress , staged under the auspices of the 25-member ‘ working committee ’ that has taken over the functions of the Communist SED will last through the weekend . |
| 13 | The special party congress , staged under the auspices of the 25-member ‘ working committee ’ that has taken over the functions of the Communist SED will last through the weekend . |
| 14 | The special party congress , staged under the auspices of the 25-member ‘ working committee ’ that has taken over the functions of the Communist SED will last through the weekend . |
| 15 | well the the have a training roll and it may well be that the will be able to I mean I have n't spoken for example but they have taken over the functions of the old Manpower Services Commission training agency . |
| 16 | Townspeople who form the Loftus Development Trust under the chairmanship of Barbara Welford have now taken over the work of the Civic Trust Project . |
| 17 | Their bodies have become greatly flattened , their pectoral fins enlarged into undulating lateral triangles that have taken over the function of locomotion . |
| 18 | This is because all possible fictions of scientific progress are virtual in present-day technology which has taken over the function of ‘ productive ’ simulation . |
| 19 | If the Hindus and Sikhs of Punjab have taken over the concept of Izzat from the Muslims , the Muslims and Sikhs have adopted the dowry system from the Hindus . |
| 20 | But these signals did not reach AFHQ until the morning of the next day , 15 May , long after Robertson had sent his response to McCreery 's AC/189 which had only asked for " immediate steps " to be taken over the approach of Army Group E , and which had made no specific reference to Croats . |
| 21 | As well as its management of the floating debt , it had increasingly taken over the handling of the service payments on the funded debt , and it held the balances of many departments of state as well as of provincial tax gatherers . |
| 22 | This plan was given a cautious welcome by the Social Democratic and Labour Party , led by Gerry Fitt , John Hume , and Paddy Devlin , which had taken over the leadership of ‘ constitutional ’ nationalist opinion . |
| 23 | The three announced that they had taken over the leadership of the SPLA and accused Garang , who had led the organization since its creation in 1983 , of dictatorial behaviour . |
| 24 | Subsequent of that of course to meet the need we had Stage Directions come into being very vibrant thrusting young people theatre 's company and really what 's happen is that Stage Directions in part anyway has taken over the mantle of the old Harlow youth theatre . |
| 25 | A keen jurist — like Mr Lang — Mr Toubon forced the respect of the Socialist majority in National Assembly debates on legal matters and would happily have taken over the Ministry of Justice in the new Government . |
| 26 | One twelve-hour shift had knocked off and a new one had taken over the duties of maintaining the platform 's complex equipment . |
| 27 | Deacon had taken over the head of the formation as the leader 's R/T was not working , and calling a warning to the other pilots , he swung into the attack on one Messerschmitt from the quarter position , breaking away to attack a second similarly , though in neither case did he observe any results . |
| 28 | By 1785 , Mary Gifford of The Swan Inn across the street had taken over the ownership of Charles 's house . |
| 29 | Care must be taken over the signs of relationships , specifying which category has been selected as the base for comparison ( see section 8.2 ) . |
| 30 | ‘ For it was then that the Vietminh had in one quick stroke taken over the nationalism of the country , that Ho had achieved the legitimacy of power . ’ |