Example sentences of "and have [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | JACK Lee , whose name will always be associated with the Midland School of Embalming , which he founded just after the war and from which he has trained many hundreds of embalmers the world over , has decided to take more of a ‘ back seat ’ and has handed over the principal 's chair to John Davis , although he will still be ‘ in the wings ’ as an advisory tutor . |
| 2 | The Neighbourhood Watch Committee provides a regular newsletter for the village and has taken over the distribution of Christmas parcels to the pensioners . |
| 3 | Although Cheetham walked away with packets of dosh and has taken over Weidenfeld , his new list of authors relies on the same tired ( and expensive ) formula of ‘ star ’ novelists , which ultimately bores the reader and spoils the cash flow . |
| 4 | Steve works in the engineering office and has taken over some of the er you know purchasing function as well , like enquiries and stuff . |
| 5 | The myth of the returned loved one is rooted deep in both Celtic and Norse mythology and has carried over into more recent times . |
| 6 | It is a sense of defeat and having to start over again . |
| 7 | Among the other guests lunching were Mr Paul Marmin the managing director of Boucheron , and Mrs Marmin ; Mr and Mrs Hamish Renton , he is a director of Boucheron ; Mr and Mrs Eric Arnott , he is one of the world 's greatest eye surgeons , and had flown over to America that Thursday on a professional trip and flown home on Saturday . |
| 8 | Michael was looking over the top of a cliff at them and had to fall over , hanging in mid-air . |
| 9 | The CVR , also known as the Rettig Commission after its chairman Raúl Rettig , a former Supreme Court judge , had been set up in April 1990 and had taken over 4,000 testimonies during its research . |
| 10 | Later , on July 25 , Blix said that three inspection teams had so far visited more than 30 sites in Iraq and had taken over 300 samples of nuclear material , but that " there are many more things to answer " . |
| 11 | Yakovlev had been editor of Moskovskiye novosti , a newspaper which had extended the boundaries of freedom of speech during the perestroika period , and had taken over the chairmanship of All-Union Television and Radio ( which became Ostankino in December 1991 " see p. 38655 ) in August 1991 after the failed coup [ see p. 38372 ] . |
| 12 | But as well as indicating strong loyalist sympathies in the town , he had to inform that these were evidently not shared by Bruce 's own nephew , the new Earl of Carrick , Edward Bruce 's second son , who was lord there now and had handed over the castle , with his allegiance , to the usurper . |
| 13 | Jerry Rawlings ( who had also staged a successful coup in June 1979 against the then military rulers , and had handed over power to President Hilla Limann in September of that year ) . |
| 14 | one of Mrs Tibbs 's boarders , ‘ an Irishman recently imported ’ who was ‘ in a perfectly wild state ; and had come over to England to be an apothecary , a clerk in a government office , an actor , a reporter , or anything else that turned up — he was not particular ’ . |
| 15 | He had arrived at the Laboratory over an hour late , at ten o'clock , looking terribly tired because he had been up that night at the scene of crime , and had come over to the reception desk to collect his personal post . |
| 16 | The community-centre members are conscious of the need for good relationships with their neighbours , and have bent over backwards to accommodate Muriel . |