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 .
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