Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] take over from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dad 's first name was George , and he had already made it clear on several occasions that when Granpa retired he had no intention of taking over from him as he did n't want to leave his mates on the docks . |
| 2 | Frankie Parks is revelling in the manager 's job after taking over from Billy Sinclair in November . |
| 3 | It will be Gatting 's eighth season as captain since taking over from Mike Brearley . |
| 4 | Hill finished third in Montreal and is still without a win after taking over from 1992 world champion Nigel Mansell . |
| 5 | If he is not the greatest gloveman the game has known , he is a very successful wicket-keeper-batsman ; in his first two Tests in Australia in 1981–2 he appeared solely as a batsman before taking over from David Murray , and by the end of the 1989–90 series he had played in 68 Tests , made 223 dismissals ( a miserly five stumpings tells a sad tale ) and scored almost 3,000 runs at an average of 35 with five centuries . |
| 6 | The Proteo has been engineered with a view to taking over from the SZ after Zagato builds the 1000th car late next year . |