in charge

Example Sentences

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The soup kettle and the coffee pot on the back of the stove, which I never seemed to find time for, were simmering again the first week Betsie took over, and soon a stream of postmen and police, derelict old men and shivering young errand boys were pausing inside our alley door to stamp their feet and cup their hands around hot mugs, just as they’d done when Mama was in charge.

From Literature

Pickwick said that the German doctor in charge of the prison hospital was a humane man who occasionally arranged a medical discharge.

From Literature

The young man in charge was perhaps a qualified eye doctor, but his entire equipment consisted of a box of framed glasses, from gold-rimmed bifocals to a plastic-framed child’s pair.

From Literature

Tarek William Saab resigned in February as attorney general after nearly a decade in charge of a justice system which experts describe as subservient to the ideals of Maduro's charismatic predecessor Hugo Chavez, president for 14 years before his death in 2013.

From Barron's

The senior officer in charge of the investigation into the Nottingham attacks has denied that triple killer Valdo Calocane was charged early to "shut down stories of police failings".

From BBC