Example sentences of "she [verb] over the " in BNC.
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1 | No — that would be too much to expect , she decided with a pang of misery that made her blink as she turned over the food . |
2 | She handed over the pawn ticket . |
3 | They took her to her stall in the market , demanding she handed over the arms and propaganda they accused her of storing there . |
4 | She handed over the small package , and then ran her gaze once more over the chaos in the office . |
5 | She handed over the numbers , and said goodbye . |
6 | She handed over the corkscrew . |
7 | But Sue is quick to justify the power she wields since she took over the editorship in 1989 . |
8 | But once she took over the directorship of the Institute for Chemical Research in Bucharest ( ICECHIM ) , she began to purge those scientists who had been foolish enough to cast doubt on her credentials or to refuse to ‘ co-operate ’ with her research . |
9 | Catherine has sung before — she took over the lead role in the West End musical 42nd Street as a teenager . |
10 | In 1885 she took over the management of the embroidery section of Morris & Company , her father 's firm . |
11 | When her brothers joined up in 1914 she took over the running of the Ferry assisted by some local boys who enjoyed the good food that Mrs Stevens provided . |
12 | She took over the phone in a vain attempt to replace Dana , only to admit defeat late on Thursday evening when she was forced , reluctantly , to agree to Myra 's insistence that she wear the wedding gown herself . |
13 | She took over the serving of the tea and cakes and Jenna had the opportunity to study her surreptitiously . |
14 | She took over the premises behind the bus station in Middlesbrough ( opposite the car park and along from Macdonalds ) and has hardly looked back . |
15 | Er , although Shirley , she took over the ro , erm , she took the role half way through of down on the floor splitting things up things over , er , the rest of them were cutting out words and what have you , and writing out the script the way they wanted it , and she just stuck them on the floor , , and they changed the script , so in that respect she was |
16 | And she was to , she took over the Queen when she out of the country ! |
17 | Tweed , who had refused to let her take over the wheel , appeared outwardly to be perfectly relaxed as he stopped and presented the passport in the name of William Sanders . |
18 | Now that she knew Betty was here because she pitied her and not because she liked her , she felt less threatened and decided that she would just let her take over the cooking and do as she wished in the kitchen . |
19 | When the headmistress , with some guilt , asked her to take over the school 's unpopular Commonwealth Society she rolled up her sleeves and cleaned out the dusty room that had been hung with torn posters depicting ‘ Tea-picking in Ceylon , ‘ Coffee Growing in Kenya , ’ and ‘ Sheep Farming in Australia . ’ |
20 | Although the older sister lived away , she travelled to stay with her sister occasionally and during one visit , after she made her allegations in a family meeting which she had joined , the counsellor asked her to take over the caring role for the final week of her stay so that her sister could actually see how it should be done . |