Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] taken over from " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 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 . ) |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | On the day before the April 18 announcement , the President of the Serbian state presidency , Slobodan Milosevic , had declared that Serbia 's own internal affairs secretariat had now taken over from the federal authorities in administering public security in the province . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She had also been surprised at how easy she had found it to talk to him , about all the private , intimate failures and successes of her life ; fascinated to hear about his problems with the privately owned Wyndham International Banking Corporation , which he had recently taken over from his father . |