Example sentences of "have [verb] [to-vb] over [noun] " in BNC.

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1 IBM Corp has decided to hand over support of its point-of-sale systems in the US to Eastman Kodak Co , Rochester , New York : the two will ‘ develop a dedicated store systems service organisation to provide maintenance service on current and future IBM point of sale products ’ .
2 To ensure the successful flotation of all 10 , the Government has attempted to gloss over differences and has reconstructed the authorities financially to make them seem equally attractive .
3 The hire car would be running up a heavy bill , but apart from the advance that he 'd had to hand over Forester had no intention of paying it .
4 Sometimes I would hear conversations about the war when some of the older men in the dale came to chat and have a cup of tea in the kitchen with Uncle Tommy , who had come to take over Low Birk Hatt after Father died .
5 Women had come to take over men 's jobs as platform , goods , and parcel-porters , ticket-collectors , and engine cleaners .
6 Another American writer , Walter Lippmann , argued that in the liberal democracies " mass opinion " had come to dominate over governments , and that this represented " a functional derangement of the relationship between the mass of the people and the government " .
7 The tax on all registrations was eventually repealed in the October of 1794 , but in the meantime Charles the Cheesemonger had had to hand over ninepence of his hard-earned money to have his little brood 's details entered in the Anglican parish register , having already spent sixpence in the same way for Mary and Sarah in the October of 1784 .
8 The NLD had won an overwhelming election victory in May 1990 [ see pp. 37457-58 ] , following which the junta had refused to hand over power and had instead initiated a strategy of undermining the party .
9 However , Braithwaite , which specialises in plant hire , had tried to take over Samuelson , the film equipment hire company bought by Eagle in 1987 .
10 But then , what if Siward had tried to take over Scotia ? ’
11 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 .
12 Meanwhile the BBC have refused to hand over film of alleged rioting at an acid house party without a court order .
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