Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] [vb pp] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had just taken over the Chair and I thought that he was making an intervention . |
| 2 | This proved true above all at the time of which I write , or up to that time , because adolescence is as much a mental as a biological experience , and the arts meant much at that epoch , the last before the advent of Pop Culture , which has since taken over the adolescent mind rendering present that ‘ future ’ which Eliot dreaded . |
| 3 | Jacques Poos , the foreign minister of Luxembourg ( which has just taken over the Community 's rotating presidency ) , expressed the hope that he would be authorised to visit Baghdad on its behalf . |
| 4 | Moreover , the Attorney-General 's contentions are inconsistent with the practice which has now continued over a number of years in cases of judicial review . |
| 5 | Infanticide by males which have just taken over a harem is probably common in nature in many species : it has been observed several times in the Hanuman langur ( Presbytis entellus , a species of primate ) and has been anecdotally recorded in many other mammals . |
| 6 | When Italian voters go the polls today they will have a bewildering array of 116 parties to choose from , including the Movement in Defence of Motorists , the League of Housewives and Pensioners and , of course , the Party of Love , headed by Italy 's self-styled porno star , Moana Pozzi — who has recently taken over the mantle from her screen colleague and Member of Parliament , Ilona Staller , La Cicciolina , who is taking time off from politics to have a baby . |
| 7 | At Festival time 1983 , Fania Williams , who had just taken over the Tron in Glasgow , asked me if I was interested in fairy tales . |
| 8 | Minto summoned the man who had recently taken over the Headington practice from the household 's former practitioner , Dr Wood . |
| 9 | Alexander Vass , the shipping magnate who had recently taken over the local firm of G.W. Fashions after a bitter struggle with his rivals , she had expected to be a man well into middle age , in spite of the fact that she knew him to be single . |
| 10 | Still short of the halfway line now we 've already played over a minute of added time in the first half and the referee oh I thought he was gon na blow for half time , instead he 's spotted something on the nearside of the field , it 's a free kick to Blackburn . |
| 11 | He may have told you we 've now handed over the Nissan Sunny to John and replaced it with a new bright-red Micra ( the one with the cuddly toy-car image ) . |
| 12 | They have not handed over the arguments to be articulated by lawyers and scientists even now that they have taken the city and the tannery to court in a law-suit claim for $31 million . |
| 13 | He has now moved over a mile away from Youngs ' home . |
| 14 | Determined to break up what it sees as a cosy cartel , it has already spent over a million pounds on marketing and corporate entertainment . |
| 15 | As well as its management of the floating debt , it had increasingly taken over the handling of the service payments on the funded debt , and it held the balances of many departments of state as well as of provincial tax gatherers . |
| 16 | A woman spends many years charring in Cremona ; she saves all her money to buy an apartment for her son when he gets married ; her no-good husband , the boy 's father , reappears after years and demands assistance ; she refuses ; when the son is engaged , she relents and negotiates subsidies to her ex-husband , for a suit , a car , a wedding-present ; she organizes a big reception to which she invites all her former employers ; nobody comes except a tennis-star ; there is no sign of the husband ; her lawyer tells her that the girl her son is marrying is her husband 's mistress and that he had already taken over the apartment ; she reflects a moment and decides to carry on with the reception , everything is all right , ‘ if no one notices anything , it is as though nothing has happened ’ ; passers-by are invited to join the wedding-party , which they happily do because the tennis-star is present ; the husband turns up in his new car ; no one takes any notice of him because no one knows who he is , except for the dealer he sometimes does jobs for , who tells him all new cars lose half their value as soon as they are bought and end up on the scrapheap anyway . |
| 17 | He had now knocked over a bottle of gentian violet . |