Example sentences of "turn [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old-fashioned MPs , unlike the new generation who happily turn up at the annual conference , went out of their way to dream up family illnesses , unavoidable business meetings or urgent missions to Kurdistan to avoid these gatherings . |
| 2 | If somebody if they turn up at the normal time , I assume when though there 's you know we could leave a not a not a notice and they could just go out . |
| 3 | WC apps : 8 The Belgians tend to be ignored until they suddenly turn up in the latter stages of major tournaments — the final of the 1980 European Championship and the semi-finals of the last World Cup . |
| 4 | The committee of six ( nearly all their names turn up in the 1910 sample ) organized a programme which included songs such as " The Old Countree " , and " Flight of Ages " , sung by Misses Forrest and Waugh ; the opportunity to dance quadrilles and waltzes ; and a pianoforte selection by Miss Thomson , who was , like most of the other performers , a compositor . |
| 5 | His prep crew had coptered in a few days ago , but it was psychologically important for the movement that the first arrivals turn up in the old way , like the Mormon pioneers who had first built by the Salt Lake and made the desert bloom . |
| 6 | Well if you turn back to the various sectors . |
| 7 | Meanwhile their parents — and wives — turn back to the only resource over which they do have some control , and produce more children : hoping against hope that this one might stay and help with the work on the land , or that one might be lucky enough to get an education and a job sufficiently secure and well-paid to bring security for all the family . |
| 8 | Turn back to the original feature about that very development . |
| 9 | I turn back to the white man 's earnest justification and go and make a cup of tea . |
| 10 | Indeed when times get bad things are often better for them as people turn back to the old faiths . |
| 11 | We turn back to the main strip . |
| 12 | Then turn back to the pictured book to think |
| 13 | There vas something official about it , as if it were a guard-dog or sentinel , on the constant qui vive behind its glass eyes , taking turn and turn about with the real house-dog , and the basket of flowers was stuck in its mouth in an attempt to disarm , an accessory borrowed to lend it a harmless look . |