Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the 1860S , middle-class holiday-makers had effectively taken over the resorts . |
| 2 | Age , education , ideology , even strength of partisanship , had little influence over whether or not people perceived bias on television or in their papers . |
| 3 | Even the tiles concurred , for now the arrows had all flipped over and were pointing at him , pointing out the guilty party , the incompetent official , the unworthy son . |
| 4 | Among those I met or saw were the Begum Aga Khan , who was with her very attractive daughter Princess Zahra Aga Khan ; the Director General of the British Equestrian Foundation Major Malcolm Wallace , two of our top Event riders Miss Karen Straker and Mrs Jane Thelwall ; and Mr Andrew Dixon , who had all come over from England with the Hermès party ; Mr Peter Laing , the Hon. |
| 5 | All we can do is hope that Mrs W. will cool off and in the meantime , Edward , I 'm sorry but honestly I think Mary or Janice had better take over Junior Biology . ’ |
| 6 | Mambo graphics had long crossed over and splattered the high street , while surfer-turned-designer Shawn Stussy was being lined up by BBC2 ( in its The Look ) as a street version of Ralph Lauren , a marketeer with a useful line in Californian surfer drawl . |
| 7 | A woman spends many years charring in Cremona ; she saves all her money to buy an apartment for her son when he gets married ; her no-good husband , the boy 's father , reappears after years and demands assistance ; she refuses ; when the son is engaged , she relents and negotiates subsidies to her ex-husband , for a suit , a car , a wedding-present ; she organizes a big reception to which she invites all her former employers ; nobody comes except a tennis-star ; there is no sign of the husband ; her lawyer tells her that the girl her son is marrying is her husband 's mistress and that he had already taken over the apartment ; she reflects a moment and decides to carry on with the reception , everything is all right , ‘ if no one notices anything , it is as though nothing has happened ’ ; passers-by are invited to join the wedding-party , which they happily do because the tennis-star is present ; the husband turns up in his new car ; no one takes any notice of him because no one knows who he is , except for the dealer he sometimes does jobs for , who tells him all new cars lose half their value as soon as they are bought and end up on the scrapheap anyway . |
| 8 | As far as control was concerned , the Government had already taken over . |
| 9 | From about 1563 until his death in 1590 they were held by Charles Fox , although he had to share the Signet with John Dudley ; and in 1590 Fox was succeeded by Fulke Greville , who had already taken over Dudley 's share of the Signet and had acquired reversions to the Clerkship of the Council in 1577 and the Secretaryship in 1583 . |
| 10 | By January , the navy had already taken over the oil fields from striking oil workers and was producing just under a third of normal output , . |
| 11 | ( Jiang Zemin , CCP general secretary , was elected to succeed him , as the only candidate , on April 4 : Jiang had already taken over from Deng , in November 1989 , the chairmanship of the party CMC . ) |
| 12 | If only Oliver had not fallen over on the path he would not have gone to spend the night with Marjorie and Mr Sargent . |
| 13 | The offender had a dispute with the victim as a result of the sale by her of his car : the offender claimed that she had sold it for less than it was worth , and had not paid over to him his proper share in the proceeds of the sale . |
| 14 | At the time , I was far from alone in wondering if he had not wandered further down that path than he knew , whether the playboy and gilded youth had not taken over from the redoubtable fighter . |
| 15 | Elisabeth had not walked over to the Villa with the other guests , but lagged behind . |
| 16 | The tension and frustration that had built up in the claustrophobic atmosphere of their life in Northumberland had finally spilt over when Louise had taken them both to the West End to buy the birthday dress . |
| 17 | The first time he sang the poem Bilbo had just handed over the Ring and was off to Rivendell ; the words accordingly express a sense of abdication , of having been left behind , along with determination to accept this and make a new life somewhere as yet unknown . |
| 18 | At Festival time 1983 , Fania Williams , who had just taken over the Tron in Glasgow , asked me if I was interested in fairy tales . |
| 19 | In 1911 he returned to railway service as personal assistant to ( Sir ) H. Nigel Gresley [ q.v. ] , who had just taken over from Ivatt on the Great Northern railway . |
| 20 | I had just taken over the Chair and I thought that he was making an intervention . |
| 21 | ‘ Robert had just taken over the Seconds , but was called back to play in the first team . |
| 22 | They argued that a new racism based on arguments about cultural difference had largely taken over the arenas of public debate . |
| 23 | Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada and José Ramón Balaguer Cabrera , who had respectively taken over responsibility for foreign affairs and ideology [ not solely Balaguer as given on p. 39089 ] were elected to fill the central committee vacancies . |
| 24 | Sometimes she 'd turn on her heel , snarling , and lunge at a dog that had gradually edged over and positioned itself expectantly behind her . |
| 25 | I think somebody had sort of started pricing them and then somebody else had probably took over and they ended up with the wrong price on but I did n't mind ! |
| 26 | They , Castle Houses , had put up the prize for a steeplechase and had also taken over a prestigious handicap hurdle race already in the programme for Saturday . |
| 27 | Princesse Mathilde , when she and Frederick had originally taken over the château , had been similarly inspired by its location . |
| 28 | On the day before the April 18 announcement , the President of the Serbian state presidency , Slobodan Milosevic , had declared that Serbia 's own internal affairs secretariat had now taken over from the federal authorities in administering public security in the province . |
| 29 | Thomas had now got over his pique and was thoroughly caught up . |
| 30 | Are we to assume then that he had now switched over from being an evangelist and was a deliberate artist in the making , out in the open for all to see ? |