Be transferred to another owner.
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Examples for "change hands "
Examples for "change hands "
1 The transaction saw thousands of wireless patents change hands between the companies.
2 Houses here are very fine, but they don't change hands too often.
3 Ownership of yet another Dublin shopping centre is about to change hands .
4 It's near where Cory and the boys saw that box change hands .
5 Swing states are states that can change hands depending on the candidate.
1 Rumor says that the Albermarle is to change owners .
2 Immense masses of property change owners without examination; confidence thus producing a great saving of labour.
3 But some analysts were skeptical that the bank is ready to change owners in the short term.
4 These places change owners every couple of months, and I haven't been in the City for five years.
5 Throughout New York's boom and bust years, developers have taken down many classic signs as buildings change owners and aesthetic.
6 He had seen dogs change owners in the past, and he had seen the runaways beaten as he was being beaten.
7 These, being the cheapest, are the most numerous, and are usually the objects of attack, and so change owners the oftenest.
8 Thousands of dollars often change owners during a passage from St. Louis or Louisville to New Orleans, on a Mississippi steamer.
9 But, it seems, not destined for him; Media leaving it to the present proprietor, whether his dentals should change owners or not.
10 I paid my men and discharged them, and told them the vessel was about to change owners , and put him in full possession of it.
11 Its fairs for sheep, horses, and cattle, too, were famous, as many as 100,000 sheep having been known to change owners at one fair.
12 The babu reached out a fat hand and the silver changed owners .
13 You see how it is, my lad; the ship has again changed owners .
14 Herds frequently changed owners when the buyer never saw the cattle.
15 East Lynne had changed owners , and now it was the property of Mr. Carlyle.
16 Land was changing owners at Bleakridge, and rising in price.
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