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took control

vb. (en-simple past of: take control)

Usage examples of "took control".

He fled after the annexationafter the Nazis took control, isnt that right, Prince Heinrich?

Marc Gabriel, the man we were looking for in Paris, hacked into the Hunts mainframe and took control of their system.

And after they spread to all corners of the land and took control of everything, they did what no one could ever suppose they would.

At the same time, other fragments returned to the paralyzed shell of that other creature, where, slowly and deliberately, they took control.

The tigers took control of the land, hunting, killing and eating everything mat came their way.

As its bony body writhed against her, she had a sudden, almost overpowering desire to get it by the neck and to squeeze -- With an effort the part of her that was good at figuring things out took control and she patted the sparse silvery fur.

They're doing computer modeling, some of which indicates that it's too late, that if men of good-will and women of good-will came forward everywhere and took control, it would be too fucking late.

Felonious quickly took control of the entire crew by suppressing her powerful personality, and power down upon their minds crushing them.

The Torshind simply glided up to the transferee, melted into the other's body, awkwardly took control of it, then moved down the hall and into the Zone Gate.

You destroyed his operations control center, killed his commander and part of his command staff, took control of much of his hover stock, totally disrupted his operation, and inflicted substantial casualties—.

If he took control from the beginning, the Senators would most likely be off-balance for the entire duration of the interview.

F-2 took control of its energies and again forces played, but now they were the forces of the giant machine.

Almost absentmindedly, he reached out and took control of a single slave-mind that had strayed too close.

The indentured colonists, having fulfilled their obligations, took control of their own land, on which they planted tobacco, as the Indians had taught them.