Example sentences of "who have [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | " They have a first class officer who has leant over backwards to establish a low profile in dealing with immigrants . " |
| 2 | What do you say to the fathers , and I have had dozens from up and down the country contacting me , what do you say to the fathers like that chap over there in th in the front row , who has handed over sometimes tens of thousands of pounds , he 's done his bit , he 's had it rubber stamped by the court , he 's gone ahead in good faith and made his his his future , and then the Child Support Agency comes along and just without so much as a by your leave pulls the rug . |
| 3 | Again , the frequency of masturbation is perhaps highest among older males recently defeated by a newcomer male who has taken over the sexual role in his harem . |
| 4 | Saints will be fired up under new boss John McClelland , who has taken over from the sacked Alex Totten . |
| 5 | But Souness is backing the player who has taken over from Bruce Grobbelaar , Anfield 's first-choice keeper for the last 11 seasons . |
| 6 | His absence has given a rare opportunity to his deputy and political rival , Zhu Rongji , who has taken over the reins of government . |
| 7 | Ingres is now under the firm charge of ex-DEC European chief and now ASK Group president Pier Carlo Falotti , replacing Dennis McGinn who has taken over responsibility for developing strategic partners for the company . |
| 8 | I looked for my favourite character , only to find he had been replaced by the same bitch who has taken over Lloyd 's job . |
| 9 | Wake , who has taken over from Ron Aitken , said one of BAIE 's strengths was its diversity and it made sound practice , as well as fun , to tap into the network . |
| 10 | New secretary Paul Birks of Mason 's Ironstone , who has taken over from Peter Masheter , said : ‘ Golf is no longer seen as a rich man 's sport and is accessible to all ages and pockets . |
| 11 | The sprightly priest , who has taken over the parish of St Paulinus in St Helen Auckland in County Durham , said : ‘ As long as I am fit as the way I am now I will continue to serve the community . ’ |
| 12 | Ross , who 'd taken over the industrial empire founded by his father , Sir David Wyndham , had been planning to develop and broaden the company 's overseas operations . |
| 13 | Curiously , he was not deported , a sentence which in the two years immediately after the war was handed down to at least fifty young people who had come over on the Kindertransporte . |
| 14 | At the end of the match Comte Ghislain de Vogüé of Moët et Chandon , who had come over from France especially for the match and the luncheon that preceded it ; and Viscountess Marchwood , wife of the managing director of Moët et Chandon UK , presented the Moët et Chandon prizes , and Miss Liz Kershaw the publisher of Harpers & Queen presented the Harpers & Queen trophy . |
| 15 | Falling under the spell of an older , flamboyantly dressed and well-educated kinsman , Esme Stuart , who had come over from France , he was suspected of dangerously Papist leanings and of some unnatural sexual habits . |
| 16 | I had already employed an attendant , Toril , who had come over from Norway at the end of July to help me during and after my move . |
| 17 | Everyone was wandering around the house getting everything ready for my uncle who had come over from Nigeria . |
| 18 | Janina 's father was a Polish Jew who had come over to Britain to fight in the war . |
| 19 | Second , the Old English , descendants of settlers who had come over with the first wave of English conquest during the Middle Ages . |
| 20 | Marjorie made a moue at Isobel , who had walked over to the cot in the far comer of the room and was standing in the same apparently relaxed but watchful posture she had displayed downstairs . |
| 21 | The explosions were now occurring in the area they had just evacuated , probably inflicting casualties on the British troops who had taken over the German trenches . |
| 22 | The official figures showed the party membership to be around 650,000 ; the real figures were well known to be far below that number , possibly below 300,000 , with an undue proportion being middle-class activists who had taken over old and decaying working-class parties or management committees . |
| 23 | It was clear , too , that Kanhai , who had taken over the leadership from Sobers , was coming to the end of his career and that whoever took over from him would have the opportunity for an extended run in the job if he were successful . |
| 24 | I then had dinner with Trevor Clay , who had taken over at the Royal College of Nursing , and he also agreed that such an offer would be enough to bring them back into negotiation . |
| 25 | There was the young woman and her baby who had moved into the space above the coach-house , and there was the noisy couple from Luton who had taken over the empty servants ' quarters up the back stairs . |
| 26 | Ripples of applause greeted the great grey as he cantered past the stands to the start under jockey Richard Dunwoody , who had taken over as Desert Orchid 's regular partner on the retirement of Simon Sherwood . |
| 27 | They proposed that they became Frankish vassals in return for protection against the expanding might of Abd-ar-Rahman the Ommeyad , who had taken over virtually the whole of Spain . |
| 28 | Lt. Hancock , who had taken over ‘ B ’ Flight of 185 Squadron after Innes Westmacott was wounded , crash-landed when his engine failed due to fuel starvation ; a fault had prevented his being able to switch over tanks . |
| 29 | By 1802 John Wayland — a member of a famous Frome family , some of whom were to be very eminent in Baptist circles in America — was the new owner , and rates on it cost him 4d. ; lucky old Mrs. Muir , then , who had taken over by 1804 , and was only charged half the price … |
| 30 | An Italian , Gionesca , was absent from parade one morning as we lined up for inspection by the Sergeant-Major ; Corporal Herve , a scarred Frenchman who had taken over from Vigno as duty NCO , went upstairs to find him . |