Example sentences of "turning [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it is possible to see the outside of the well section by continuing down the stairs and turning right behind the dining room . |
| 2 | He pushed back his chair and stood , turning away to the drawing room . |
| 3 | People were turning away from the dance spectacle to watch , with varying degrees of amusement , the small drama being enacted in their midst . |
| 4 | The majority of socialists agreed with the Communist Party in turning away from the abstentionist logic embraced by the ILP . |
| 5 | She was just turning away from the pantry door when Jenny entered the kitchen . |
| 6 | Now it was simply a matter of whether the embarrassment of a Foinavon victory could be headed off , but he was thirty lengths in the lead turning away from the Canal Turn and showed no signs of giving up . |
| 7 | Turning off from the north-south highway some twelve miles north of the Makaa , the track leading to the cabin had been made first by loggers and then improved by a quarrying company some forty years ago . |
| 8 | I thought my form had been good enough throughout the year to warrant selection , but there is always that niggling doubt , especially as I had angered Frank Dick by not turning up for a relay practice at Loughborough where he was engaged in running the annual Summer School for athletics . |
| 9 | Gesner , turning up for the dress rehearsal the next morning , was rather bored . |
| 10 | They chuck all these people out of mental hospitals on the excuse that everyone in the community is spontaneously going to start looking after them — and surprise , surprise , they start turning up on the night shelter circuit . |
| 11 | Hundreds were able to pay their respects and express their condolences by turning up at a charity rugby match at Shiplake College , Berkshire , in aid of the Charlotte Starmer-Smith Memorial Fund which aims to purchase medical equipment for the treatment of blood diseases . |
| 12 | At a Labour conference you get Gerry Adams turning up at a fringe meeting , and he the leader of Sinn Fein , which is cousin to the IRA , which in 1984 , in this same town , blew up the Grand Hotel in an attempt to murder the Prime Minister and Cabinet . |
| 13 | Creatures that bestride the dividing line between amphibians and reptiles and between mammals and protomammals , are constantly turning up in the fossil record . |
| 14 | Kathleen remembered nothing of the drive home , turning automatically into the parking area behind her flat and letting herself in with hands that shook so badly she could scarcely hold the keys . |
| 15 | Cook slightly before turning out onto a wire rack . |
| 16 | They were turning out into the village street again now , leaving behind them the stone ranks of the dead , with their propitiatory offerings of flowers and foliage . |
| 17 | Mason weighed in at 17st 103 4 lb for Biggs , heavier by 10lb than ever before , and attributes this to a groin injury sustained when turning out in a charity football match . |
| 18 | Turning now to the development work itself in general , the development work is going well . |
| 19 | But meanwhile many Japanese eyes are turning back to the root cause : policy co-ordination and America . |
| 20 | Instead of turning left over the canal bridge which would have taken him into the village , he turned right and began walking out of the village on the Brookend road . |
| 21 | His face was open and honest and smiled readily , the generous mouth turning upwards into a handlebar moustache . |
| 22 | Turning awkwardly towards the bedside table , she picked up a glass of water and sipped the warm liquid gratefully . |
| 23 | Turning then to the mevleviyet kadiliks , he served successively ( and apparently uninterruptedly ) as kadi of Damascus ( 977/1569 ) , Egypt ( 978/1570 ) , Bursa ( 979/1572 ) , Edirne ( 981/1573 ) , and Istanbul ( Rajab 983/October 1575 ) . |
| 24 | The first sailing from the port after midnight on the New Year was taken as the official start of the Single Market ; the first piece of freight on board was actually an unidentified light van and trailer — the driver no doubt blissfully unaware that he had made history — which , along with several vehicles turning round from the inbound convoy , sneaked back on board the 01.00 return sailing of the Pride of Kent while the official welcoming party was still in progress at the other end of the port . |