Example sentences of "was [verb] [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although desiring a diplomatic posting to Venice , Mackenzie was recalled to take over Scottish affairs from Sir Gilbert Elliot , third baronet [ q.v . ] . |
| 2 | A general system of multilateral trade and payments became more tenable in the 1950s when the European Payments Union was formed to take over payment settlements between European countries ( including their colonies and dependencies ) . |
| 3 | In 1967 , the British Bliss Classification Association ( BCA ) was formed to take over responsibility for BC ; work began on its revision in 1969 under the editorial direction of Jack Mills . |
| 4 | As The Beatles rose inexorably , so did Smith and by the time ‘ his mates ’ were splitting up in 1970 , he was approached to take over the editorship of NME . |
| 5 | A Navy sailing master was permitted to take over command only for the duration of the brief period when it was necessary for the Simonova to be manoeuvred to allow technical officers to service the weapons and telemetry mounted on the platforms . |
| 6 | As the eldest son of a wealthy sake and soy-sauce producer in conservative Nagoya , he was expected to take over the family business — and perhaps become the 15th generation of Morita Mayors in the local community . |
| 7 | Indonesia , which was expected to take over the chair of the movement from Yugoslavia in September 1992 , was elected by the Larnaca meeting as de facto chair with immediate effect . |
| 8 | Here and there the head of a child was seen peering over a windowsill . |
| 9 | Bolinger ( 1974 : 86-7 ) seems to side with Palmer and Higgenbotham , for he maintains that the to infinitive evokes not a perception but rather a fact : The passive tends to be used in situations where the interest is not in perceptions but in impersonal facts — for example , in the testimony of a witness who says He was seen to stoop over and pick up some object , and then stuff it in his pocket . |
| 10 | This was where Jesus was going , because he knew that to take to take something over and let's face it Jesus was looking to take over take something over to fulfil something and he was hoping to fulfil Judaism to take it over , to fulfil it , he had to go to where it mattered . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Carl was destined to take over the duties and responsibilities of his father from an early age . |
| 13 | The students later believed a legend that part of this famous book was written ail over the walls of his room . |
| 14 | That , he reflected , was what happened when the Navy was persuaded to hand over operational as well as administrative control of a ship to a pack of civilians . |
| 15 | Rostov wondered how long the conversation was going to continue over his head . |
| 16 | His partners , brought to the sticking point , agreed , somewhat reproachfully , and passed on firmly to the question of who was going to take over which of Angela 's clients . |
| 17 | The person whom I was going to take over the job from said to me at the end of the meeting well what do you think of that meeting and I must admit I the answer and luckily somebody else instructed with some other business and I felt I got off the hook here but in fact that got dealt with very quickly and he came back to me and said well what did you think of the meeting and I had to say to him just one word , was the way I put it . |
| 18 | She looked from him to Michael and realised that her brother was going to go over to the man . |
| 19 | ‘ My mother has mentioned you a lot in her letters , ’ she said at last , deciding that honesty was the only policy , if she was going to smooth over accusations made in the heat of the moment . |
| 20 | ‘ But as soon as we got to the line I realised he was going to keel over with me and I just hopped off in time . |
| 21 | Well I even say the originally , he was going to come over with Robert stuff |
| 22 | The villages were patrolled by company uniformed ‘ policemen ’ whose ‘ duties were primarily concerned with the maintenance of the appearance of the village , keeping the lawns tidy and litter off the streets , for example ’ ( Waller , 1983 , p. 98 ) , but Waller 's respondents also reported company ‘ policemen ’ who watched over children 's play , recorded untidy properties ( ‘ It seems clear that the threat of dismissal was thought to hang over men who did not keep their gardens tidy in several villages ’ — p. 100 ) , and ensured that dogs were not kept as pets ( thus preventing the men from engaging in the popular contemporary sport among miners of training and racing greyhounds and whippets ) . |
| 23 | While the rest of the group stood around the microphone Eva was invited to move over to the corner . |
| 24 | In the autumn of 1918 , following the resignation of Mr. A. H. Pott , the Manager and Engineer of the Metropolitan Electric Tramways and the London United Tramways , C. J. Spencer , the Bradford Manager , currently absent on war service with the Admiralty , was invited to take over the management of the three London tramway companies . |
| 25 | It was said that one result of reading the Section as I read it would be this : that Mr Astor would be liable to pay tax in respect of the income received by the trustee in the United States as income deemed to be his ( Part XV ) and also likely to pay tax on the income which the trustee was bound to pay over , the latter being ( within the decision in [ Garland v Archer-Shee ( 1930 ) 15 TC 693 ] ) the income springing from a foreign possession , namely , his right of action against the trustee . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'd begun to wonder if anything would work — it was beginning to take over my life . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , the survey concluded that ‘ a very considerable qualitative and quantitative momentum ’ had been built up in the training of part-time teachers for general adult education in the local authority sector and that this was beginning to spill over into vocational teaching . |
| 29 | He was unshaven , and his stomach was beginning to protrude over his belt , but there were still traces of the fine , athletic figure and well-cut features that she had married seven years ago . |
| 30 | Control was informed of the news and the relief signalman , Ted Hudson who lived in Market Rasen , was summoned to take over the operation of the box . |