Example sentences of "[pron] turn out " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ hooligans on housing estates causing disturbances in the common parts of blocks of flats , blockading entrances , throwing things down stairs , banging on doors , peering in at windows , and knocking over dustbins ; groups of youths persistently shouting abuse and obscenities or pestering people waiting to catch public transport or to enter a hall or cinema ; someone turning out the light in a crowded dance hall , in a way likely to cause panic ; rowdy behaviour in the streets late at night which alarms local residents . ’ |
| 2 | I ca n't draw in other people 's styles , and I turned out particularly inane Mickey Mice . |
| 3 | Luckily I turned out to be reasonably fluent and uninhibited when expressing my own thoughts and feelings . |
| 4 | I do n't blame my parents for the way I turned out , I 'm the one responsible . |
| 5 | I turned out for North Melbourne in 1948–49 , but for some reason was not selected for Victoria . |
| 6 | Then I turned out the light and settled at the window amidst the bottle-brush fronds of monkey-puzzle . |
| 7 | I turned out to be right . |
| 8 | I turned out to have a modest talent for neuropsychiatry . |
| 9 | There were n't many weighing machines in Baldersdale , but then a friend had to get one because of health problems and I turned out to be something around ten stones . |
| 10 | I turned out the f the negative upside down to do the other half , which makes 'em look Keeps the the group equally s h |
| 11 | My husband was n't nice to me and look how I turned out ! |
| 12 | I turn out the reading light , and the grill glows warmly . |
| 13 | Three papers published recently in Science move us a little closer to understanding the basis of the disease , which turns out to be highly complex . |
| 14 | This can not be said of the colourful house , which turns out to be as likeable as its architect . |
| 15 | They are going to a planet celled Malecandra ( which turns out to be Mars ) and , having made a previous recce there , they are under the impression that the inhabitants are fierce and eat men . |
| 16 | Nearly crash car again , as I pass what looks from the road like a progressive-minded chemist , but which turns out to be a printer 's shop . |
| 17 | It now makes sense to join the rest of the world by paying for what we use , say experts Kent Meters in Luton , Bedfordshire , a firm which turns out a million meters a year — and sells them abroad . |
| 18 | King Idomeneus of Crete , caught in a storm at sea on his way home , vows to Neptune that if he is spared he will sacrifice to the gods the first person he meets on landing — which turns out to be , of course , his own son , Idamantes . |
| 19 | The enticement to covet is like the attraction of an enchanting perfume , one which turns out to be a delicious , attractive , sweet-tasting poison . |
| 20 | The Black Dog — Ken Downie , Ed Handley and Andy Turner — record all their sonic expeditions at the gothic-sounding Black Dog Towers , which turns out to be a terraced house in East London . |
| 21 | In the same fashion , if the witch-doctor offers advice which turns out to be wrong , you write him off as a quack and change your doctor . |
| 22 | Equally troublesome , if not more so , is the domiciliary assessment which turns out to express total income from all sources . |
| 23 | Although the analysis focuses on social class , other variables relating to the housewife 's own education and previous ( or present ) employment are also examined : in some cases it is these factors rather than social class itself which turns out to be important . |
| 24 | It finishes just short of the summit with a superb rock pitch that looks hard from below but which turns out to be slabs at a comfortable angle , full of deep cracks . |
| 25 | Therefore — except for an occasional mutated child which turns out to be plainly of the wrong metal for its caste — ranks must remain separate . |
| 26 | Meriel Oliver , the articulate and lively-minded wife of the Archdeacon of Sherborne , runs the Mother 's Union for the diocese , which turns out to be not a quaint pre- war knitting bee , but a widespread and effective support group for troubled diocesan families . |
| 27 | In addition there is a small credit and information branch , CDMS , and a printing operation which turns out the eight million pools coupons played each week by aspiring millionaires-to-be . |
| 28 | A possible alternative theory is that the committee , the responsible government department and the parliamentary draftsmen all thought that section 15 ( clause 12 ) was needed , which turns out to be a mistaken view when section 1 is properly understood . |
| 29 | But this means that , from time to time , the student will pursue hunches which lead nowhere , or adopt a method of analysis which turns out to be unfruitful . |
| 30 | He will not be called up , owing to his dicky heart ( which I have never truly believed in until now , but which turns out to be genuine ) . |