Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] taken [adv prt] from [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 May I remind him that the London Arts Board , which has just taken over from Greater London Arts , is settling down well to the work of funding arts associations throughout London .
2 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 .
3 No changes … a new skipper though Shaun Taylor has officially taken over from Ross Maclaren …
4 ( 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 . )
5 In 1911 he returned to railway service as personal assistant to ( Sir ) H. Nigel Gresley [ q.v. ] , who had just taken over from Ivatt on the Great Northern railway .
6 He used to be the crier , but had recently taken over from Fred Harrison who had proclaimed the fair annually for the last thirty years .
7 Crossman Block have wholly taken over from Lloyd & Co. and are now the sole solicitors instructed by the interim government .
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