Example sentences of "over the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ealhfrith must have been about 20 years old at the time of the battle of the Winwaed , after which he became king of Deira , taking over the former territory of his cousin , Oethelwald . |
| 2 | The compounds , known as gamma linolenic acid ( GLA ) derivatives , are produced by a British-Canadian company , Scotia Pharmaceuticals , which six years ago took over the former fish drying factory at Callanish on the west coast of Lewis as its principal production unit . |
| 3 | Argos , the high street catalogue shopping shop , is to take over the former Tesco Home and Wear store in Newborough , Scarborough , which closed five months ago . |
| 4 | Time and again , Gadarene management spreads the damage : many boards of directors as one swine plunge over the same edge , ignoring the well-established fact that the conventional wisdom is usually stupid . |
| 5 | His execution was probably a mistake , for it deprived the north of its only effective military leader , and left Edward little option but to take over the same policy and conclude a truce . |
| 6 | rattlers titter over the same joke . |