Example sentences of "turned [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sarah Murray was recently turned down for a catwalk show because her walk was n't suitable . |
| 2 | A SECOND appeal against East Hampshire District Council 's refusal to allow permission for a house on land at Old School House , Crabtree Lane , Headley has been turned down by a government inspector . |
| 3 | Green himself had been turned away from a polling station in the capital , Georgetown , for lack of identity papers ; this prompted his supporters , drawn from slum districts , to go on the rampage , attacking the Commission 's headquarters and that of the PPP and looting and vandalising scores of Indian shops . |
| 4 | With two brothers , he had turned up with a cash bid for House of Fraser . |
| 5 | An oil painting worth £12,000 and which was nicked from the Marquess of Bute in 1987 , has turned up at a car boot sale . |
| 6 | Only last week ( British Medical Journal , vol 286 , p 765 ) there was an account of two young lassies in Australia who had turned up at a health centre feeling nauseous and generally out of sorts . |
| 7 | I think she should have played a Tour Event before an exhibition event , but then again it would n't be the first time she has n't turned up for a Tour Event would it ? |
| 8 | Michael hightails it out of town , 10,000 dollars better off , only to be turned back after a road accident . |