Example sentences of "[vb pp] over to the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a widow is the first line of a paragraph left alone at the foot of a page and an orphan is the last line of a paragraph carried over to the top of a new page . |
| 2 | This division of the sky was eventually carried over to the division of the circle and so led to our present habit of dividing the complete ( two-dimensional ) angle around a point into 360 degrees . |
| 3 | Five or six young boys had come over to the fire with some scraps of meat and sections of cleaned intestine that they skewered with s ticks and laid on the embers to roast . |
| 4 | Nothing that the Minister has said today convinces me that his heart and his mind have been won over to the case for a funding council . |
| 5 | Gradually Congress was won over to the need for tax increases and cuts in public expenditure . |
| 6 | And the modern art in my cellar areas is chiefly given over to the discovery of fresh talent and new Bristol artists , some of whom still attempt the famous perspectives of the Gorge and the Bridge . |
| 7 | It wove its way through the commercial dockside industry of the town which gave place , in time , to acres given over to the cultivation of the motor car in all its stages , new , second-hand and crushed to scrap . |
| 8 | The building was given over to the university in 1810 , and the commode entered the Clanwilliam collection in 1831 . |
| 9 | Ironically , during the war years , the pitch was in better condition than it had ever been , as it was given over to the growing of carrots and potatoes . |
| 10 | The steady expansion of land given over to the production of cash crops and the growth in population inevitably resulted in a decline in the proportion of villagers able to make a living from subsistence agriculture . |
| 11 | The greater part is given over to the well in which the ice was deposited . |
| 12 | The result was the meaty and woolly Southdown sheep , whose extensive use kept the local downland primarily as pasture , unlike chalkland elsewhere , which was largely given over to the plough in the later eighteenth century . |
| 13 | The Cult of Pleasure is revealed as being secretly given over to the worship of Slaanesh . |
| 14 | Lucie 's thoughts were entirely given over to the pain in his chest ; he was overrun with pain . |
| 15 | At the end nearest the tube station was a block of shops containing a small supermarket run by Pakistanis , a Greek restaurant run by Cypriots , a triple-fronted emporium given over to the sale of motor-cycle spare parts and equipment and a paper shop run by people who when asked where they came from ingenuously replied that they were Cape Coloureds . |
| 16 | There is a cramped , faded little room given over to the recognition of the literary achievements of the region , in homage to writers who were not themselves Basques but who settled here : the playwright Edmond Rostand , author of the extraordinary Cyrano de Bergerac ; the exotic novelist Pierre Loti , who lived and died in Hendaye ; the sentimental poet Francis Jammes , pictured here in a charming naive portrait , impossibly bearded and together with his wife and their wildly staring dog . |
| 17 | By 1863 , he too had gone and Kings Mill had been turned over to the manufacture of pins , an industry that was to become important for Painswick . |
| 18 | By the 1850s , Freames Mill had been turned over to the manufacture of pins by Perkins , Critchley and Marmont , who were there for around a decade and who later operated on a much larger scale at Wimberley Mills . |
| 19 | They clearly appreciated what a magnificent building they had acquired and spent £800,000 on restoration and conversion of the Grade II listed structure , which was subsequently turned over to the manufacture of high-technology measuring equipment . |
| 20 | The whole of the floor of one of the big sheds had been turned over to the making of the signs . |
| 21 | Much of the Colombian countryside has been turned over to the growing of soya and sorghum to feed chickens , thus depriving the Colombian peasants in the area of a food supply and contributing to the increased protein deficit in Colombia . |
| 22 | LEFT : Merrets Mill was used as a cloth mill but was later turned over to the production of flock , shoddy and mill puff , by the Grist family . |
| 23 | Although he produced valuable results at St Andrews , his major contributions did not come until later , as half the time he spent there coincided with the First World War , when the laboratories were turned over to the production of pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals . |
| 24 | NVA barracks and training areas were being handed over to the government for civilian use as rapidly as possible . |
| 25 | The bases were officially handed over to the army at noon today . |
| 26 | Refused by all , he doggedly returned to Scotland and carried on guerilla warfare until , captured by further treachery , he was handed over to the English by the sheriff of Dumbarton . |
| 27 | Having been offered shelter by one of the Armstrongs , Hector of Hardlaw , whom he had helped some years previously , he was treacherously handed over to the Earl of Moray , Regent of Scotland since Mary 's enforced abdication . |
| 28 | In the Kandyan Kingdom a man convicted for assault could be handed over to the complainant to be beaten , and thefts were often resolved by the return of the stolen property , plus further compensation . |
| 29 | They were kicked senseless and then handed over to the Military Police who locked them up in the roofless regimental prison before they were handed over to the Colonel of the Regiment for interrogation and questioning . |
| 30 | Prisoners arrested for Forest trespasses ought to have been handed over to the sheriff of Rutland for imprisonment in Oakham castle , but Neville put them in his own gaol at Allexton , which was ‘ full of water at the bottom ’ , and bound them with iron chains . |