Example sentences of "turned [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a couple of miles he turned right into a network of lanes . |
| 2 | ‘ He is an old woman , ’ she replied , and half turned away with a swish of her sea-green silk dress . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | FIREMEN and police turned up at a house in Bracknell , Herts , with sirens blaring after Nibbles the hamster became trapped under the bath . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | His look deepened and the corners of his well-defined mouth turned up in a half-smile of mystery . |
| 8 | 5 paintings by mass murderer Dennis Nilson , painted in a cell at Parkhurst jail , turned up in a shop at Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire . |
| 9 | Thus , when Hitler landed at Danzig 's Saspe airfield on a whistle-stop tour of the east for his 1932 election campaign , the entire Danzig SA , along with a uniformed company of the local police force , turned out as a guard of honour . |
| 10 | There was a full page article announcing Darwinism is dead , which turned out as a matter of fact to be a reprint of an article which had appeared some months earlier in the Sunday Times of this country , erm which in fact was based very largely on some work by a young man called Steele , which none of us , I think , believed at the time , and which was since turned out clearly to have been mistaken . |
| 11 | The bearer turned left along a line of houses they had just come out of . |
| 12 | At Mewslade Bay a mile or so on , I turned left along a track to the village of Pitton , abruptly leaving this raw , rocky coastline for a palpably tamer farmland atmosphere of fields , grazing cattle and styles . |
| 13 | At Piteŝti the road turned left amid a forest of oil installations and then cut south-west to Craiova 120 kilometres further on . |
| 14 | Passing the Blacksmith 's Arms , we followed the road to the left , then turned left up a hill past the Lastingham Grange . |