Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] turn " in BNC.
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| 1 | And proof that an informant had indeed reached Edward from the town was provided by the fact that the emissaries now demanded that the required hostage should be none other than Seton 's own son , a young man whom he had brought with him to Berwick on his first military venture , unfortunate a start as this had turned out to be . |
| 2 | A few had turned on their sides in the hay and cradled their heads on their arms . |
| 3 | This was especially so after the death of Edward 1 in 1307 , and in particular when Edward III decided to turn his imperialist ambitions against France . |
| 4 | By the following year that innocence of 1969 had turned into the appearance of the first page three girls in the freshly Murdoch-bought Sun . |
| 5 | The Communist International failed to turn any political situation to its advantage during the years 1917 to 1935 , largely because of the rigidity of its model and its lack of interest in the actual conditions of Latin America . |
| 6 | Yes yo your hands used to be purple an and the brass work on the dredger cos we had , we had a little bit of brass work they all used to turn green and to clean it , used to turn green . |
| 7 | In the small city of Sydney , Nova Scotia , a thousand did turn out to protest at the loss of the local train . |
| 8 | Look how readily the thousand had turned out to besiege the laird at Castle Menzies ! |
| 9 | As was often common after breech births , the afterbirth had not come away as it should have done , and Effie had been so torn during the birth , Dr Neil told her later , that she had started to bleed , and then the bleeding had turned into a violent haemorrhaging , the passage of the afterbirth completing the damage already done to Effie 's poor little body . |
| 10 | The war on the Western Front in 1917 — 18 had turned Chesterton into an alcoholic , a condition which he finally controlled in the later 1930s , thanks to the generosity of Mosley who financed his cure at a special clinic in Germany . |
| 11 | Eschewing both rutted ‘ autoroute ’ and Paris-Dakar ’ engineering , ten couples somehow cajoled their 2CVs across the Sahara and eight survived to turn a brain-storm into an annual rally . |
| 12 | Eschewing both rutted ‘ autoroute ’ and ‘ Paris-Dakar ’ engineering , ten couples somehow cajoled their 2CVs across the Sahara and eight survived to turn a brain-storm into an annual rally . |
| 13 | That meant turning south , and she would have to ask which way she was headed . |
| 14 | One late autumn afternoon Snowy failed to turn up for his meal , so his master went out to look for him . |
| 15 | The unemployed 18 year-old had turned to prostitution and was seen soliciting in the Chapeltown area of Leeds on July 9 , 1991 . |
| 16 | For the last few hours he had been thinking about James and Kate and the rest of the Mollands , the Salpertons and the Redburns ; and it would not have shocked him if any or all of them who were still alive had turned up unannounced at Number 29 . |
| 17 | The ‘ blooming ’ of 1986 had turned into the ‘ weeding ’ of 1987 , thirty years after Mao Zedong 's campaign against ‘ rightist ’ intellectuals . |
| 18 | That had turned Leila 's stomach more than seeing Zambia being shot . |
| 19 | And then the last time ; that had turned out to be a walk on the wild side . |
| 20 | He once took a swim late at night with a drunken socialite , but that had turned out to be entirely innocent and there was testimony from Cary Grant to prove it . |
| 21 | I can honestly say that every audience I 've ever had has been very good , except , perhaps , for a school for the mentally handicapped we visited once where one or two started turning round and talking whilst I was speaking . |
| 22 | Marcus Small Ward Two had turned acute medical , but it smelt like a plaster theatre . |
| 23 | Thousands had turned out to watch , and Group Four crossed the line to win the final leg . |