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

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1 The case was turned over to another policeman with a mean , bony face and narrow eyes .
2 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 .
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 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Later , the mill was turned over to the turning and manufacture of wooden items .
8 There are indications that the mill was turned over for a time for saw milling , and possibly even cider production .
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 .
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