Example sentences of "[vb infin] over [coord] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the state of emergency , the government can take over or direct the operation of public utilities and businesses . |
| 2 | If there are many cable crossovers the loose tension will hardly show and will certainly make the knitting easier , but where there are few cables and a lot of plain knitting the looseness of the plain knitting will take over and make the work look faulty . |
| 3 | The HRD practitioner should explain to the executive managers that the transformation will not occur unless people are feeling so much pain in the present situation that they are motivated to change it ; in the absence of such pain , resistance will take over and make the change difficult or even impossible . |
| 4 | Soccer officialdom , as Mr Clough observed ‘ thought I would take over and run the show . |
| 5 | She managed to make a half turn so that she could see the silver door , because perhaps she could reach out and reach over and grasp the elaborate handle and somehow pull herself out . |
| 6 | ‘ You 'd best go over and pass the time of day . |
| 7 | I 'll go over and ask the chap who gave us our instructions yesterday . |
| 8 | Why did n't he come over and fetch the car then ? |
| 9 | Particularly when Granny lives in Nairobi , the shades are spattered with Milpar , you have n't bought a bottle of wine since you opened your Mothercare account , the backless negligee is fine so long as you do n't roll over and reveal the stretch marks on what used to be your breasts , and you feel about as compelled to have sex as you feel compelled to have gangrene . |