Example sentences of "[vb infin] over the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And indeed , it did hold its stout pectoral fins away from the sides of its body , and it was not hard to imagine that had it been vigorous , it could have used them to help it move over the rocky sea floor of its true environment . |
| 2 | Accept a £12m offer to move Wimbledon north to merge with a League club who would take over the Premier League franchise . |
| 3 | The Government , he added , should take over the legal battle to reclaim millions of pounds which Robert Maxwell plundered from pension funds instead of leaving professional advisers charging £1m a month to unravel the complexities of the disgraced tycoon 's financial dealings . |
| 4 | Marx fancied that he could simply take over the Hegelian analysis and , in Engels ' famous phrase , ‘ stand Hegel the right way up ’ with no reference to the fact that Hegel 's whole analysis is rooted in an effort to resolve quite specific problems which he inherited in the theory of knowledge . |
| 5 | BTE Glenrothes will take over the existing subcontract engineering business . |
| 6 | As did the suggestion that Liz and Owen might take over the old home . |
| 7 | A Youngman protégé could take over the old boy 's lecturing responsibilities and everything would fit together rather nicely . |
| 8 | Now , V D U and eye tests I 'll take over the main primary agenda . |
| 9 | I have seen some very attractively variegated mint which I would like to grow in the flower border , but my mother says it will take over the whole garden . |
| 10 | ‘ You think I 'll take over the whole show , do n't you ? ’ accused Mountbatten . |
| 11 | He would hand over the old man 's baccy for the week and a few sweeties then , after a bit of chat , he was away . ’ |
| 12 | But you would hand over the natural order to be managed by Parliament . |
| 13 | Mrs Southey had asked Sarah to visit so they could ‘ talk over the American affair ’ , and it may by then have seemed inevitable to Sarah that she too would be carried on the Pantisocratic tide . |
| 14 | and you can turn over one way or you can turn over the other way . |