Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wales , Toshiba took over the Rank factory in Plymouth , Tatung of Taiwan took over the Decca factory in Bridgenorth , Mitsubishi took over the Tandberg factory in Scotland and Sanyo has bought the Philips factory in Lowestoft . |
| 2 | John Parker , who himself took a nasty knock on the head while batting in a famous Press match at Harrogate in 1977 , stiffens his reader on page 9 by having the bumptious captain of Surrey keel over ‘ like a battleship hit by a torpedo ’ . |
| 3 | William I of Normandy took over a new country and , to unite it and to bring peace and prosperity to it in accordance with his ideas , he had to show strength . |
| 4 | Reid felt the first spasm of panic sweeping over him for he knew what Lester was after but Reid just grunted back at Piggott which provided no encouragement at all and he must have been one of the most relieved jockeys in the race to see the starting stalls open for even in the parade beforehand he still had visions of Lester taking over . |
| 5 | In the spring and early summer the archbishops of Bremen and of Magdeburg and the bishop of Osnabruck went over to Philip . |
| 6 | The next shot was of Nicola hunched over a table in a darkened room . |
| 7 | Perhaps those who came in repentance and were prepared for the running waters of Jordan to flow over their heads in judgment were thought of as undergoing the judgment of God in symbol so that they would not have to undergo it in its awful reality on the Day of Judgment . |
| 8 | We have a child who 's very bright — but there 's this huge sword of Damocles hanging over his head . |
| 9 | In Andalusia little was to be gained by resistance at a time when French power looked invincibly stable : the intellectuals of Seville went over en bloc and acceptance of the inevitable became active collaboration in those groups where hatred of Godoy 's ‘ tyranny ’ had been combined with a qualified admiration for the French Revolution and enthusiastic regalism . |
| 10 | The author , Jane Pettigrew , has taken traditional recipes from Trust properties all over the British Isles and combined them with a fascinating account of the development of tea-drinking in this country , ever since Catharine of Braganza brought over a tea chest from Portugal as part of her dowry on her marriage to Charles II . |
| 11 | Fifty years ago the people of Oxford raised over one million pounds in Warship Week . |
| 12 | Rhoda took to table-tapping and seances and reported seeing the ghost of Wendy hovering over her bed at night . |
| 13 | After his appointment in 1631 as Chief Justice of the southern forests , the Earl of Holland took over the direction of the Forest Eyre , and presided at subsequent justice Seats . |
| 14 | In 1798 , General Humbert of France came over and won a battle near there , but he took so long that the nearby towns had time to refortify . |
| 15 | Chief Emeka Anyaoku of Nigeria took over as Commonwealth Secretary-General on July 1 for a five-year term . |
| 16 | A third branch of the communications flowing out of EUCOM goes over landlines to the European headquarters of the US Air Force at Ramstein , Germany , from here the messages split up , going directly to the control centres in the convoys and to main operating bases such as Greenham Common . |
| 17 | ( Notice the change which the Durham professorship , and Joan 's coming , wrought — in 1940 no one could conceive of this absent-minded man as a bishop , and six or seven years later the electors to the see of Edinburgh mulled over his name and decided that it would not do , and five years after that both archbishops and the prime minister 's office were agreed that he would be a very good bishop . ) |
| 18 | Or , slightly less galling , Fyfe 's new company Hickson & Welch of Castleford taking over the company completely . |
| 19 | Borisav Jovic of Serbia took over as President of the federal Collective State Presidency on May 15 in accordance with the system of annual rotation of that office . |
| 20 | This is partly because Labour has picked up a mood of unease about the city among its residents , fearful of Frankfurt taking over its role as Europe 's financial capital , and jealous of Paris 's self-confidence and infrastructure . |