Example sentences of "a [noun] [to-vb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The deal provokes further speculation that Rowland is preparing the way for a successor to take over the group he has led for 30 years . |
| 2 | Most unpopular are subsidies to attract a buyer to take over an existing home so the seller is released to trade up . |
| 3 | As the mourners left the Church , there had been plans for a Spitfire to fly over in a final tribute . |
| 4 | It may be felt that replacing two straight cores with a ring structure is too drastic a change to gloss over , but the mechanism is not too different in the two cases . |
| 5 | Principal Hotels signed a deal to take over six of the 12 Crown Hotels which went into receivership in April . |
| 6 | What could be more natural than for three members of Prince 's plus a girlfriend to wander over to St. George 's to see the closing stages of the Million Sterling Tournament ? |
| 7 | The brave eight-year-old will mix with her classmates again at Basildon , Essex , in a bid to get over her ordeal . |
| 8 | The company has approached the Government with a plan to take over Network SouthEast services , including branch and suburban routes , in a wide arc between London and the south coast towns of Eastbourne , Brighton , Portsmouth and Weymouth . |
| 9 | A plan to turn over millions of hectares of unused agricultural land to the growing of willow trees is to be implemented in Britain . |
| 10 | Jews or Zionists are seen as prime movers in a plot to take over the world , by destroying nations and manipulating the minds of ordinary people . |
| 11 | As late as 1719 there was a plot to hand over the island of Ibiza in the Balearics to the British ; but by then Catalan resentment of rule from Madrid , though still a factor of importance , was ceasing to be an immediate danger to national unity . |
| 12 | By doing so , reasoned the party 's elderly barons , the way would be clear for a baron to take over as prime minister come the party 's annual meeting in October ( four of the party 's five factional bosses were caught taking payoffs from Recruit ) . |
| 13 | A body to take over from the Wagner Development Group . |
| 14 | We used the word " profile " to indicate that we are trying to look at a shape when we are selecting people , choosing a business to take over , assessing a deal , estimating a risk . |
| 15 | In this case the seller will probably require some statement of the efforts that the acquirer will take to collect the debts , provision for unallocated payments received from debtors to be attributed first to pre-completion obligations , and a right to take over the enforcement of debts which are not collected within a period of , say , six months . |
| 16 | A small trainer like me has a job to tick over , let alone make a living , but he always comes to the rescue . |
| 17 | ‘ How can you respect bashing in a bolt and just waiting for a robot to take over your job ? |
| 18 | I wonder when we might arrange a meeting to talk over old times ? |
| 19 | ‘ If my brother Reg wants to buy them he must come up with the money , but there are a number of interested parties , individuals and consortiums who have expressed a desire to take over the club . ’ |
| 20 | My initial impressions , from hearing the occasional report ( as above ) was that we made a disastrous start , and went a goal behind … that took us a while to get over , in the meantime Norwich were boosted . |
| 21 | The most recent case was in 1973 when the government appointed a commissioner to take over the housing responsibilities of the Clay Cross Urban District Council because the council refused to operate the provisions of the Housing Finance Act 1972 and charge higher rents to council tenants . |
| 22 | She 's convinced he 's just waiting for a sign to pop over and propose ! ’ |
| 23 | Like all fathers , I see fatherhood as a chance to turn over a new leaf . |
| 24 | It was an interesting if much too long meeting lasting from 2pm to about 6.15pm — but interesting in that , with rather few of us there , it was a chance to range over a whole lot of issues on and off the agenda , and a chance to appreciate the efforts , interests , aspirations and voluntary input of many others — though of course they get support from their activities from their employers . |
| 25 | Then appoint a deputy to take over the command of the Warden 's duties and forces — possibly Sir Simon himself . |
| 26 | Peers visit him once a month to hand over expenses forms on which they specify the days they have attended the Chamber for debates . |
| 27 | Finally , a thought to ponder over . |
| 28 | Jack was in a hurry to gloss over that right foot and reproaching stuff . |
| 29 | This was schlock science , then and now at odds with mainstream genetics , but it was science in the service of ideology for a paranoid dictator in a hurry to make over his country . |
| 30 | She appeared to have been holding a makeshift icepack to the side of her head and a couple of the cubes had skidded out of reach and begun to melt , almost as if she 'd been in too much of a hurry to stretch over for them . |