The phrase "abruptly taking over" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a sudden and unexpected assumption of control or authority over something.
Example: "The new management team was abruptly taking over the operations, leaving the employees in shock."
Alternatives: "suddenly assuming control" or "unexpectedly seizing power."
You can sense that in the lost, panicked expression that abruptly takes over his face.
The country was still in the aftermath of economic depression when, in June 1935, Baldwin rather abruptly took over the prime ministership from MacDonald, whose health was clearly failing.
Then, on Tuesday, the Federal Reserve abruptly took over the nation's biggest insurance conglomerate, the American International Group, and began bailing it out with an $85 billion loan.
Of course, other than for his few recent months running the Dallas Opera Company, which he is leaving abruptly to take over City Opera, he has no experience as an opera administrator.
In the end, when Mr van der Wielen left abruptly, "I got a fortnight in Fiji" before taking over, says the youthful-looking 49-year-old.
4 00 p.m. | Updated Only three months after taking over as publisher of Twelve, a small imprint of Grand Central Publishing, Susan Lehman has been abruptly replaced, Grand Central said on Tuesday.
Not much has been heard from Jay H. Walder, the former chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, since he resigned abruptly last year to take over the sleek and generously financed rail system of Hong Kong.
Then, with three games left to play, first-year head coach Bobby Petrino abruptly quit to take over at the University of Arkansas.
If there had to be an alternative, he wanted to see Omar Suleiman, Mubarak's abruptly appointed vice-president, take over.
In October 2016 Mistry was abruptly dismissed, and Ratan took over as interim chairman; media reports indicated that conflicts over business strategy were the reason for Mistry's ouster.
