Example sentences of "it was [verb] over [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The final destruction of the road 's equilibrium took place when it was given over to high speed travel by car . |
| 2 | Ironically , during the war years , the pitch was in better condition than it had ever been , as it was given over to the growing of carrots and potatoes . |
| 3 | For the first three centuries of its existence , until 751 , it was ruled over by a single family , that of the Merovingians . |
| 4 | Following its days of silk production , it was turned over to piano making , and became known as the Evans Piano Factory . |
| 5 | Okay , fair enough , it was turned over on appeal eventually erm but erm it was a bit of a miscarriage of justice being kept in prison for that period of time until it was overturned pleaded guilty to another murder but that 's by the by . |
| 6 | IAN CHAPMAN , the former head of publisher William Collins who left in acrimonious circumstances when it was taken over by media mogul Rupert Murdoch , is back in the book business with a venture that links him with Sir David English , editor-in-chief of Associated Newspapers . |
| 7 | Rangoon radio said the airliner was 20 minutes into its flight when it was taken over by what it called ‘ terrorists disguised as passengers ’ . |
| 8 | It was , more accurately , a wood-built open-air refreshment centre and it was taken over by Europe 's supporters . |
| 9 | Theakston was manager of T&R Theakston — most famed among beer drinkers for its Old Peculier ale — before it was taken over by Scottish & Newcastle four years ago . |
| 10 | The palazzo was built in the early seventeenth century and after spending a period as one of the centres of Milanese high life it was taken over by a prestigious academy , the Accademia dei Fenici . |
| 11 | In its earliest history the building housed the guardian of the eastern gate , but it was taken over by the Fontana family and completely remodelled , a reshaping that was carried out with all the grace of Renaissance art . |
| 12 | The mill had a number of owners over the years , its major business starting when , by the 1860s , it was taken over by Reece and Sandford . |
| 13 | Following a period of use for warehousing , the mill stood empty for two years , until it was taken over by Mike Cavanagh in 1976 . |
| 14 | Bakers have of course extended to the Brown Street corner , but in the twenties had Mr. Denham , the baker as neighbour , a beautifully clean shop which traded until the late 1940s when it was taken over by W. Shipsey and Sons . |
| 15 | However , the left-half position was never satisfactorily filled after Archie 's departure , until it was taken over by Johnny McNichol some five or six years later . |
| 16 | Dovercourt had just one season as a holiday camp before it was taken over by the RCM as short-term accommodation for refugee children . |
| 17 | Until 1980 , this was the British Country Club ; then it was taken over by the Regional Government and reverted to its original name , being opened as a Public park . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , financial problems continued to plague the paper , and in 1961 it was taken over by East African Newspapers Ltd , the Nairobi publishers of the Daily Nation , who wanted to get into the Tanzanian market . |
| 19 | Michael was signed to CBS Records before it was taken over by Sony . |
| 20 | NCR Corp first began talking about its Top-End transaction processing monitor at the beginning of 1991 ( UX No 317 ) , just before it was taken over by AT&T . |
| 21 | In 1977 , however , it was taken over by the institut , and when their funds were depleted a mainly American foundation came to the rescue . |
| 22 | , Emma ( 1838–1912 ) , evangelist , philanthropist , and manager of the Old Vic in the years before it was taken over by her niece Lilian Baylis [ q.v. ] , was born in London into a lower middle-class Anglo-German family . |
| 23 | Oh since this firm took over , well it was not B M K you know but it was taken over by the |
| 24 | It was taken over by the British Transport Commission ( later to become British Rail ) in 1949 and much of the magnificent original decoration and marble was either taken away , covered up or painted over . |
| 25 | Until 1860 this was the work of the college of commerce ; but in that year it was taken over by the foreign ministry and ten years later replaced by an annual list of Swedish diplomats and ministry officials . |
| 26 | With trading settlements and ports of call at Goa , the Cape and Lisbon , the Portuguese undermined the economy of the Mameluke Empire to such an extent that it was taken over by the Ottomans in 1517 . |
| 27 | It was taken over by the Pittard Group in 1987 but made serious losses in the last three years . |
| 28 | The jail was the scene of a hunger strike during the War of Independence after it was taken over by the military authorities in 1915 . |
| 29 | The common belonged to the people until the early 1970s when it was taken over by the council . |
| 30 | The case centres on large-scale purchase of shares in the United States company , Triangle Industries Inc , just before it was taken over by the French state-run aluminium firm , Pechiney SA , in 1988 . |