Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] [to-vb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was at a meeting in February 1880 of Emma 's co-workers and tenants in south London that it was decided to take over the Victoria Theatre ( familiarly known as the Old Vic ) in the Waterloo Road , a hitherto dirty and drunken home for melodrama , and turn it into a coffee music hall for purified and teetotal entertainment . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd begun to wonder if anything would work — it was beginning to take over my life . |
| 3 | It was beginning to take over from the London external degrees , and had already established a substantial range of subject areas in which it could work . |
| 4 | THREE people died and two others were injured at the weekend when their car crashed into a train it was trying to beat over an unmanned level-crossing near Doncaster , South Yorks . |
| 5 | By the afternoon of 21 May , as we have now seen , 5 Corps had determined precisely which groups of Cossacks and anti-Tito Yugoslavs in the Corps area it was planning to hand over , in accordance with their interpretation of the Robertson order of 14 May . |