Example sentences of "[pron] take over " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was reflected in the expressions used by some members of the RUC ( ‘ OK , let's hit the streets and do it to them before they do it to us ’ , ‘ This is where the law stops and I take over , sucker ’ , the reference to probationary police as ‘ rookies ’ and to bullets as ‘ slugs ’ ) , their dress ( mirror sunglasses , blue jeans , and white T-shirt , sometimes with the Miami-Vice parallel reinforced by the words being printed on the T-shirt ) , and other ephemera ( the engraving of ‘ San Quentin' on the keys to the cells , jumping through the enquiry room window rather than using the door ) . |
| 2 | ‘ I take over the wheel and we lose them , the whole shooting match . ’ |
| 3 | Because he did n't think his player was coming over , Orville Moody 's caddie had taken Tom Weiskopf 's bag , but when he suddenly heard Orville was flying over , he ditched Tom and suggested I take over the bag . |
| 4 | Well , if they think they are going to follow me into the Multivite/Singletons First Division when I take over at Titford Polymers , then they are going to be bloody disappointed . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll be going in regularly until I take over ; at least part-time , ’ she said eagerly . |
| 6 | If you had any idea how much I 've got to do before I take over the shop — ’ |
| 7 | There are also occasions when I take over as duty manager for the night . |
| 8 | Martin 's Building was originally built in 1932 as head office of Martin 's Bank becoming Barclay 's local head office following its take over of Martins in 1969 . |
| 9 | The original Strasbourg clock probably contained , besides moving figures , an annual-calendar dial , and possibly a lunar dial and an astrolabe , but the instrument designed by Giovanni de' Dondi incorporated a perpetual calendar for all religious feasts , both fixed and movable , and also indicated the celestial motions of the sun , moon , and planets , including even the motions of the nodes of the moon 's orbit , which take over eighteen years to make a complete revolution around the ecliptic . |
| 10 | That power enables the Secretary of State to intervene in the private sector and , in a sense , to discriminate against one particular group of private sector companies those which take over one of the STG subsidiaries . |
| 11 | The commission is advised by the Ancient Monuments Advisory Committee and the Historic Buildings Advisory Councils which take over the role previously exercised by the Ancient Monuments Board for England and the Historic Buildings Council for England . |
| 12 | The ugliness and poverty of the place is all I remember of it , and Ward saying , ‘ Ah 'll drive as far as Chimbote , then ye take over . ’ |
| 13 | So Patrick had no use for Edward Balliol ; but , by aiding Edward the Third , almost certainly saw himself as in a position to displace the unsuccessful Balliol and himself take over as King of Scots , with English support . |
| 14 | If you take over a farm with poor fences , you will probably feel obliged to stock it before your fencing programme is anywhere near complete . |
| 15 | He desires that you take over the keepership of the royal castle of Berwick . ’ |
| 16 | Who do you turn to when you take over your first pub with a busy passing trade and you really do not know how many staff to employ or in what capacity to employ them ? |
| 17 | No , once you take over a job you take over a job . |
| 18 | No , once you take over a job you take over a job . |
| 19 | But make sure , you know , you well you take over the house , so we know what 's in them in case they get thrown out with the bloody rubbish ! |
| 20 | You have to go through a short course at the R A F College Cranwell and then once that that teaches you the R A F side of it makes you into an officer because at the end of the day you maybe there to do public relations but if the spaghetti hits the fan you 're an officer and you 're a combatant and you know you carry a gun around when you 're in a war zone and you know you 're expected to use it and if the senior officer of the unit next to you gets shot and you 're the most senior officer then you take over |
| 21 | Like the crooks pursued by the hero in Calling Bulldog Drummond ( 1951 ) , for whom ‘ life in peacetime seemed unbearably flat ’ , or the ex-officers who take over their old ship for smuggling runs across the Channel in the Ship that Died of Shame ( 1955 ) , or The League of Gentlemen ( 1960 ) , for whom robbing a bank promises their ‘ finest hour ’ , many filmmakers seemed to feel that there was nothing to do , now the war was over and the hopes of peace had faded , than go back to the site of old glories . |
| 22 | The main responsibility will fall on the Irish Government , which takes over the presidency of the EC council of ministers at the end of the month , and the Italians , who take over in July . |
| 23 | According to Vince Aletti , writing in Rolling Stone in 1973 , some of the earliest records played in New York 's underground of ‘ juice bars , after-hours clubs , private lofts open on weekends to members only , floating groups of partygoers who take over the ballrooms of old hotels from midnight to dawn ’ were unusual imports from France and Spain . |
| 24 | Chairman Ron Noades will not name the company , who take over from Bukta , but the strip will be revealed during the televised home clash with Arsenal on November 2 . |
| 25 | Chairman Ron Noades will not name the company , who take over from Bukta , but the strip will be revealed during the televised home clash with Arsenal on November 2 . |
| 26 | For Plato in a marvellous metaphor ( Republic 488 ) Demos was a huge , deaf old sea-captain , drugged and overpowered by ignorant riff-raff who take over the wheel themselves — true , except for the word ‘ ignorant ’ . |
| 27 | Future pension rates will be at the mercy of employers who take over subsidiaries of the Scottish Bus Group . |
| 28 | Future pension rates will be at the mercy of employers who take over subsidiaries of the Scottish Bus Group . |
| 29 | With Domestic Factoring , we purchase your book debts on a continuous basis and provide four basic services : an immediate advance of up to 80% of the value of invoices ; credit management and sales ledger administration — we take over the time-consuming chores of sending out statements and chasing late payers ; credit protection — we can , if required , take 100% of the credit risk on agreed customers ; and facility for growth — our service can expand as your company grows . |
| 30 | The medium , for Chester , is merely the means to an end : ‘ When we take over the theatre , we create an atmosphere so charged with positivity that people leave feeling uplifted . |