Example sentences of "was turn over " in BNC.
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1 | The first agrarian reform in the region took place in Mexico after the revolution and went through its most radical phase in the 1930s , when much good land was turned over to the ejidos , the public sector . |
2 | Thereafter , the mill was turned over to grinding corn and animal feedstuffs , the latter accounting for much of the business in the later part of its working life . |
3 | Later , the mill was turned over to the turning and manufacture of wooden items . |
4 | There are indications that the mill was turned over for a time for saw milling , and possibly even cider production . |
5 | Following the establishment of the motor museum , part of the main block was turned over in 1984 to the ‘ Village Life Exhibition ’ . |
6 | Following its days of silk production , it was turned over to piano making , and became known as the Evans Piano Factory . |
7 | The case was turned over to another policeman with a mean , bony face and narrow eyes . |
8 | The stock editor system reached a point in some authorities where work on the stock was turned over almost entirely to the ‘ specialist ’ officer , and librarians at service points were denied any real voice in stock provision . |
9 | On returning to his studio the drawing was turned over and he would go over the marks of the original drawing visible through the paper . |
10 | Executive power in many fields was turned over to seven committees of the State Council . |
11 | If his estimate was wrong , batting was turned over to the rivals . |
12 | ‘ I was turned over four years ago and freely admitted my sexual limitations . ’ |
13 | The aircraft was turned over to other crews and her role in the daylight bombing offensive against Nazi Germany continued until the end of hostilities . |
14 | Party opinion was mollified by the Derby Scheme of November 1915 , whereby the agents and activists of both parties were used to canvass for recruits ; the party organization was turned over entirely to recruiting and the scheme cost the party £29,000 . |
15 | The grass was lucky if it grew , was shone upon and rained upon , and was not burned , and was not pulled up by the roots , or poisoned , or buried when the ground was turned over , and some bits just happened to be on a line that humans wanted to walk on , and so got trampled , broken , pressed flat , with no malice ; just effect . |
16 | The coin looked as if the minter struck it on a single die , punching the image in the metal in repoussé , so hard that the inverted ear on the reverse would appear on the other side , and could be read the right way round in shallow relief when the coin was turned over . |
17 | On his surrender Noriega was transported by helicopter to the nearby Howard Air Force Base in Panama , and there he was turned over to representatives of the US Drug Enforcement Agency . |
18 | Okay , fair enough , it was turned over on appeal eventually erm but erm it was a bit of a miscarriage of justice being kept in prison for that period of time until it was overturned pleaded guilty to another murder but that 's by the by . |
19 | Emily was turning over their labels , to the accompaniment of Mr Zamoyski 's hammering from the back room . |
20 | Once the left engine was turning over at 45 per cent , he switched on the right engine , using the live engine 's generator to save the battery . |
21 | As I helped myself to a cigarette from the depleted pack I was turning over some of what he 'd told me . |
22 | ‘ All what moving about the country ? ’ asked Cliff , largely to avert further discussion of sprouts and red cabbage , which he could see was imminent from the suspicious manner in which his mother was turning over the vegetables on her heaped plate . |
23 | He was turning over in his mind the best way to have a little talk with Pickerage . |
24 | Within ten years it was turning over £20m at a gross profit margin of 50pc . |
25 | I think he 's , he 's like the other day when he was here he was talking about how he was turning over a new leaf and stuff . |