Example sentences of "turned [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He turned right at the foot of Hawthornden Road instead of left . |
| 2 | After a couple of miles he turned right into a network of lanes . |
| 3 | A cherry-and-green stuffed bird turned slowly to an icicle of dust . |
| 4 | She turned slowly in the middle of the living room , like a gyrating parakeet . |
| 5 | And then Rufus was asleep , his head turned on to the muscle of his upper arm , the fingers that had been on Adam 's shoulder retracting as they relaxed . |
| 6 | Tanner was half his age , but Maxim turned instinctively to the trainer for important work . |
| 7 | She turned pointedly to the man on her other side , who had been introduced to her as Harry . |
| 8 | They turned in at the yard of a two-storey stone house which had a red tiled roof . |
| 9 | Two riders turned in at the approach to the castle , the rest of the cavalcade swept onward through the gate , flung open to give them passage , and vanished in a flurry of spume and fine mud along the foregate . |
| 10 | Erm , although I think we will say that that would be dangerous thing to do and that we should continue to work upon the er the assumption that there erm er overall as a n , a nine percent increase , but , that seems highly unlikely that will succeed , erm What I 've then done is take account of the various staffing changes that there have been during the year , both short term and long term , erm , and you 'll see that produces a figure actually available to us this year of twenty seven thousand five hundred and eighty eight investigative hours , erm which is slightly less than we had last year , er but erm almost not significantly so , erm and it seemed to me therefore that if we were n't trying to reduce times , er , if we were saying that we would turn in times at the end of this year which were the same as the term times we turned in at the end of last year we could probably achieve that without any further recruitment . |
| 11 | By 1953 , the stiffener works had gone , the buildings turned over to the manufacture of various inks and dyestuffs . |
| 12 | The Second World War saw the end of piano manufacture , the works turned over to the production of aircraft parts by the Gloucester Aircraft Company , but after the war , piano manufacture started up again . |
| 13 | ‘ He is an old woman , ’ she replied , and half turned away with a swish of her sea-green silk dress . |
| 14 | When Gloria came , pattering across the ward in all her best , Dot could n't bear to see her pretty face and turned away on the pillow with shut eyes . |
| 15 | Alida Thorne turned away from the window with a pursed smile of pleasure . |
| 16 | Wycliffe turned away from the window with a sigh . |
| 17 | He waited till the boy turned away from the edge of the pool again and was looking into the trees behind him . |
| 18 | Panic seized him and with a sudden curse he turned away from the wicket-gate of Clark 's Wharf and gestured at the others to get away . |
| 19 | She turned away from the mirror with a sound of disgust . |
| 20 | I turned off to the right through the row of trees , and just as I was meandering past thy rhododendrons I shouted , ‘ Hell and damnation ! ’ |
| 21 | Then we turned off into the heart of the plain at Ponte Taro , a small hamlet , for the final stage of our journey . |
| 22 | They descended the switchback road and turned off in the valley towards the church ; which stood in its walled graveyard , solid , square-towered . |
| 23 | She turned quickly at the sound of my footsteps on the gravel . |
| 24 | I was quite surprised , er during the summer I went to my grandson 's school fete and they had a hot air balloon demonstration there and this er , this car turned up with a trailer on the back with , I du n no , probably some name , hot air balloon name on the trailer , I thought oh yes he 's gon na show us how to inflate it and i I was quite amazed from the time he unpacked the balloon to the time it actually took off was only ten minutes . |
| 25 | Apparently , Fagg turned up as the protégé of one Captain Fanning of the Pioneer Corps , an Irish member of ffeatherstonehaugh 's whom Gooseneck remembers as an occasional visitor and noted practical joker . |
| 26 | Vera turned up for a cup of coffee dinner time and ended up staying there rest of the afternoon dinner with us , oh no come on in , give us it , where you sitting , off she went |
| 27 | THE audience that turned up for the recital of British violin sonatas was scarcely more than a sprinkling , which made one despair of our unadventurous public . |
| 28 | He turned up for the audition with his art teacher , Rose , who he was dating at the time . |
| 29 | FIREMEN and police turned up at a house in Bracknell , Herts , with sirens blaring after Nibbles the hamster became trapped under the bath . |
| 30 | STUNNED staff turned up at a garage in Chicklade , Wilts , to find thieves had used a chainsaw to cut off and steal a petrol pump . |