Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] over [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1918 Lymn & Rambush was taken over by the Power-Gas Corporation of Stockton-on-Tees . |
| 2 | Mendez was looking over at the bar ; Russell down at his drink , as if thinking or listening . |
| 3 | Security sources said Major George Serhal was handed over to the former Lebanese president , Suleiman Franjieh . |
| 4 | In 1981 NORP was taken over by the Bangladeshi Government , so that the funding that NORP had until then received directly from UNICEF was now channelled through the Government . |
| 5 | Raoul Walsh was brought over from the US to direct O.H.M.S . |
| 6 | That monstrous bombard Mons Meg was heaved over from the Low Countries to Scotland . |
| 7 | Soon after arriving at Marshall Malinovsky 's headquarters in Debrezcin on 17 January 1945 , Wallenberg was handed over to the NKVD , the predecessor of the KGB , and disappeared . |
| 8 | Eastcote was handed over to the military and the German seamen , after a temporary stay at the Alexandra Palace , were condemned to live behind barbed wire and fixed bayonets ; Alton Abbey had already been closed . |
| 9 | One such association was with R.A.F. Medmenham , the origins of which perhaps date to the early part of the last War when Danesfield House at Medmenham was taken over by the R.A.F. as its photographic unit , although the first reference in the Minutes is October 1953 . |
| 10 | Blake was beckoned over to the stranger . |
| 11 | Donaldson 's for instance became a German prisoner-of-war camp ; the Royal School for Deaf Children at Margate was taken over by the Corporation of Margate and used as the Civil Defence Headquarters , Food & Fuel Office , W.V.S. Headquarters , Emergency Police station , among a number of other wartime departments . |
| 12 | He continued until 1965 , when the NCLC was handed over to the TUC . |
| 13 | He continued as secretary until 1965 , when the NCLC was handed over to the TUC . |