Example sentences of "[was/were] turn [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These informants were turned over to British intelligence in 1981 under an operation code-named Ward . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | While the threat of wholesale destruction failed to materialize , the cathedrals were turned over to a variety of secular uses . |
| 4 | Vast territories were turned over to growing cash crops and extracting minerals for Western interests . |
| 5 | The Arundel trainer had felt an April fool when his first two runners of the campaign — including an odds-on shot — were turned over at Brighton on Thursday . |
| 6 | Several groups of Americans were turned away despite protests that tables had been booked for them by Čedok or by their hotels . |
| 7 | SWIMMERS were turned away from Colchester Leisure World because a film crew under the direction of Alan Bleasdale had taken over the fitness pool . |
| 8 | Reporters were turned away from the college , where he has lived since the break-up of his marriage , by the porter , Mr Des Koogan , a former army boxing champion . |
| 9 | Lecturers were turned away from one of Oxford Polytechnic 's main teaching buildings this morning as students staged a sit-in in protest at overcowding . |
| 10 | PUPILS were turned away from the gates of one of Merseyside 's most troubled schools today after a devastating Bonfire Night arson attack . |
| 11 | PUPILS were turned away from the gates of one of Merseyside 's most troubled schools today , after a devastating Bonfire Night arson attack . |
| 12 | Harwich were turned away by the captain . |
| 13 | A number of vessels were turned away in the following days . |
| 14 | There was something wrong with the ballcock , and if both taps were turned on to capacity at the same time there was an overflow outside . |
| 15 | Men who were turned on by a pretty face were turned off by an absolute show of disdain — and if double meanings were n't her strength , turning a cold shoulder was . |
| 16 | A square vessel and parts of other domestic articles of wood were found about eight feet down in a peat moss at Strathmore , near Gruinart , and bones of a fifteen years old girl and a cow horn were turned up by the same peat diggers . |
| 17 | A few Bronze Age artifacts were turned up in the dark soil , but they had meant nothing to those who had seen them , and they had been turned back into the earth . |
| 18 | Terrible clouds , capable of stripping men to the bone , were turned aside by magical winds . |
| 19 | As unemployment began to escalate it may also have been true that those who were the first to be made redundant or were turned down for work were those who were least efficient . |
| 20 | Battling Dave Cannon sprayed a whole trailer-load of the cow muck over a council building after plans for his retirement bungalow were turned down for the fourth time . |
| 21 | They were turned down at the one where they were married and christened because they 'd moved five miles outside the parish . |
| 22 | So inflexible was this masterplan that when New Scientist attempted to introduce someone who knew nothing about computers to the machine ( it is claimed to be very easy to use ) we were turned down on the grounds that ‘ this would upset the timetable ’ . |
| 23 | Invitations were turned down on the grounds that ‘ we would only have to ask them back ’ . |
| 24 | Brixton itself was one of only two colleges which had nationally recognized diplomas in the field ( it was one of only four specialist institutions in the field ) , and as a member of the School he experienced the ‘ shock of rejection ’ , when its degree proposals were turned down in 1967–68 . |
| 25 | They were turned down by the Minister of Traffic and Waterways , Mrs Maij-Weggen , and it seemed that the idea , which was abandoned . |
| 26 | The State Department had already decided that if the Jews were turned down by Cuba , they would not be granted entry into the United States . |
| 27 | Similar proposals from the company for Hillington were turned down by the Scottish Secretary last March , after a public inquiry , on the grounds that the site is zoned for strategic industrial use . |
| 28 | Maggie looked at him ironically and the dark eyes were turned fully on her , inspecting her face until she had the mad urge to shut her eyes and block out the intent gaze . |
| 29 | Waddell says the old man must have known it was daylight when they left , as the house lights were turned off by Waddell at dawn … |
| 30 | Men who were turned on by a pretty face were turned off by an absolute show of disdain — and if double meanings were n't her strength , turning a cold shoulder was . |