Example sentences of "[noun] have [adv] [verb] over [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Sorry , the ghost has n't come over from the other side of the door , it just keeps moving by itself .
2 No changes … a new skipper though Shaun Taylor has officially taken over from Ross Maclaren …
3 Mr Pacey has just taken over as head of the National Criminal Intelligence Service .
4 Elisabeth had not walked over to the Villa with the other guests , but lagged behind .
5 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 .
6 ( 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 . )
7 If only Oliver had not fallen over on the path he would not have gone to spend the night with Marjorie and Mr Sargent .
8 The Spirit has been given us to enable us to understand not the future , but the gracious gifts God has already made over to us ( 2:12 ) .
9 Since then home viewing has largely taken over from cinema going but there does not seem to have been much criticism of the format as such but perhaps more so the screen size .
10 Of the group , Dobson and Imrie have already passed over to the paid ranks .
11 Crossman Block have wholly taken over from Lloyd & Co. and are now the sole solicitors instructed by the interim government .
12 Most colleges have now gone over to the modular system of teaching , which means you can achieve your degree ( or other qualification ) by combining the study of those subjects , however dissimilar , which interest you the most .
13 Former Sunderland boss Len Ashurst has temporarily taken over as consultant manager of the Beazer Homes League club .
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 The modem newspaper horoscope has largely taken over from dream-books , although they are still published , and still draw largely on the works of Artemidorus ( or claim to ) .
16 There is a considerable shake-up at the Northern Ireland Office , where Sir Patrick Mayhew has already taken over from Mr Peter Brooke as Secretary of State .
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