Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have [vb pp] over [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Saints will be fired up under new boss John McClelland , who has taken over from the sacked Alex Totten . |
| 2 | But Souness is backing the player who has taken over from Bruce Grobbelaar , Anfield 's first-choice keeper for the last 11 seasons . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Second , the Old English , descendants of settlers who had come over with the first wave of English conquest during the Middle Ages . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Janina 's father was a Polish Jew who had come over to Britain to fight in the war . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Everyone was wandering around the house getting everything ready for my uncle who had come over from Nigeria . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The man responsible for instigating change was Robin Darwin who had taken over as Rector on 1 January 1948 . |
| 16 | On July 17 Fareed had announced the formal entry into government of the Hezb-i-Wahdat , and on July 25 he confirmed that the government intended to retain the Shia Gen. Khodad Hazareh who had taken over as Interior Minister under former interim President Seghbatullah Mujjaddedi on June 26 . |
| 17 | Berndt Seite , who had taken over as Minister President in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania in March [ see p. 38822 ] , was already under considerable pressure because of the severely depressed state of Rostock 's sole major industry , shipbuilding . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Blanche introduced the sergeant to Dave Pushell , who had taken over from Ken O'Mara as the new editor of Inside Out just before the murder . |
| 20 | Writing to the Countess of Rutland in 1670 from his ‘ uncouth cell ’ in the Fleet prison , where he had been committed for debt , Crowe was scathing about the quality of the tapestries produced by William , Earl of Craven [ q.v. ] , and his associates who had taken over from him at Mortlake in 1667 . |
| 21 | It was perhaps partly for this reason that on 21 September he ordered General Enrique Varela ( who had taken over from Yagüe when the latter became ill ) to make a detour to Toledo , to relieve what remained of nearly 2,000 Nationalists who had been besieged in the giant fortress — the alcazar — since the end of July . |
| 22 | Duncan Wood , who had taken over from Michael Mills as BBC television 's head of comedy , asked Allen to see Crawford on stage in No Sex , Please — We 're British . |
| 23 | 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 … |
| 24 | Commercial farmers ( increasingly Africans who have taken over in the wake of the slow European exodus since Independence ) are still relied upon to provide the bulk of the urban demand for foodstuffs , particularly luxury items such as beef , milk , and cheese . |
| 25 | The task of of carving through the English countryside was carried out by unskilled navvies , many of whom had come over from Ireland to earn a living . |