Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [vb past] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I took over the club from Connelly I agreed to give old Giuseppe there a job , ’ he explained . |
| 2 | And when I took over the magazine I said let's just use the typefaces that they use in the newspaper and supplement them for some headlines , but try to make it belong in the New York Times . |
| 3 | Mr Ellis added : ‘ When we took over the line the state of the locomotives was not as we would have wished so we have embarked on a rebuilding process . ’ |
| 4 | The first is that the land around the Arnish site was owned by the Stornoway Trust , an elected body who received an undertaking from the subsidiary of Olsen Shipping when they took over the site , that only essential maintenance would be carried out on Sundays . |
| 5 | Still more to the point , were they welcomed by the Melians when they took over the existing settlement at Phylakopi ? |
| 6 | But when they took over the firm they were always called " Mister " to distinguish them from the other captains , perhaps . |
| 7 | When they took over the , the mind of that man and that woman |
| 8 | In 1966 its role was expanded when it took over the Ministries of Aviation and Fuel and Power . |
| 9 | It took Cuckney four years to overcome the financial crisis he encountered when he took over the Crown Agents in 1974 . |
| 10 | It was 1837 that it became Ring & Brymer , an entity retained by Lord Forte when he took over the company in 1962 . |
| 11 | He loved his ‘ Jocks ’ without a trace of condescension , and when he took over the regiment as lieutenant-colonel in North Africa and Italy , his double-barrelled beer name earned him the affectionate sobriquet of ‘ Colonel Screwtop ’ . |
| 12 | I met him for the first time ever when he took over the leadership of the party from the recently deceased Hugh Gaitskell in February 1963 . |
| 13 | Spittals had insisted it should be laid when he took over the office . |
| 14 | Castro later admitted to Herbert Matthews that when he took over the refineries he did not know whether or not Moscow would supply Cuba with oil ( Matthews : 1969 , p. 171 ) . |
| 15 | Caesar found a census of the population in the Greek script when he took over the camp of the Helvetii ( Bell . |
| 16 | It was logical , when he took over the Foundation , to concentrate on dance , and Gulbenkian in Lisbon approved . |
| 17 | He would closet himself with a bottle of port and a cigar or pipe , read the end of the previous instalment , and then write the next , drawing his fee when he handed over the text . |