Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun prp] [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Gelon 's death in 478 Hiero took over Syracuse , and another brother called Polyzalus married Gelo 's widow Damareta , who was a daughter of Theron the tyrant of Akragas , cp. above . |
| 2 | The Kitching works were sold off to the S&DR and in 1860 Alfred handed over the Lister works to his cousin , Charles Ianson . |
| 3 | The energy generated from running upstairs and laughing with Stella in distant Florence flowed over into the impulse to ring , in turn , her own mother : a pointless act , but one that nevertheless in the context seemed pious , necessary , propitiatory , and a gesture at least towards her sister , who bore so much heavier a filial burden , who would ( in theory at least ) be pleased to know that Liz had remembered . |
| 4 | In October 1953 Khrushchev replaced Malenkov at the head of the party , and in 1955 Bulganin took over the chairmanship of the Council of Ministers . |
| 5 | On his father 's death in 1851 John took over his dental practice at 12 Dundas Street , although he did not entirely forgo his medical interests , since in 1859 he proposed the foundation of what was to become the Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Sick Children . |