Example sentences of "[noun] was turn over " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Later , the mill was turned over to the turning and manufacture of wooden items .
6 There are indications that the mill was turned over for a time for saw milling , and possibly even cider production .
7 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 .
8 If his estimate was wrong , batting was turned over to the rivals .
9 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 .
10 Following the establishment of the motor museum , part of the main block was turned over in 1984 to the ‘ Village Life Exhibition ’ .
11 Emily was turning over their labels , to the accompaniment of Mr Zamoyski 's hammering from the back room .
12 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 .
13 Executive power in many fields was turned over to seven committees of the State Council .
14 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 .
15 The case was turned over to another policeman with a mean , bony face and narrow eyes .
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 ‘ 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 .
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