Example sentences of "turned [to-vb] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | He turned to go out of the room . |
2 | He turned to go back along the gallery , then stopped and looked back at her . |
3 | Duncan turned to go back into the room . |
4 | As one , they turned to continue on around the side of the house , Hector racing along before them . |
5 | She unlocked her eyes from his and turned to pass through to the apartment . |
6 | Until the moment when every single guest turned to stare avidly towards the door , with murmurs and gasps , at a series of startling arrivals . |
7 | As they accelerated away Joseph turned to stare out of the window and saw the peasant jump up and break into a little celebratory caper in the middle of the road . |
8 | The Pole turned to stare out of the window , his expression once again as bleak as the sky outside . |
9 | Merrill turned to stare out of the window . |
10 | Sighing , she turned to stare out of the window . |
11 | She fiddled with the strap of her small black leather shoulder-bag , and turned to stare out of the glass doors at the hot afternoon scene beyond . |
12 | To harmonize my body language with Alison 's , I turned to look out of the window . |
13 | He turned to look out of the window . |
14 | She stacked the diapers neatly on the top shelf , checked the gowns and vests , and then closed the cupboard and turned to look approvingly around the room . |
15 | The leaves on the thorn trees were almost open , and when we turned to look back at the distance we 'd climbed , there were clusters of vivid green that trailed down the hillside and encompassed the village like waterweed . |
16 | All turned to look back at the door as the footsteps approached on the flagstones . |
17 | He covered seventy yards to gain the partial cover of the shrubbery , flung himself amongst the undergrowth , and turned to look back at the chateau . |
18 | They turned to look back at the emptiness they had crossed . |
19 | Involuntarily Wycliffe turned to look back at the house on stilts , but it was hidden by a bulge in the slope of the hill … |
20 | Patrick shook his head and turned to walk back to the foyer . |
21 | Sestriere , 40 miles to the south-east , was reachable in five hours by a horseshoe valley route , mainly because the snow turned to rain long before the valley floor . |
22 | The cripple turned to make off into the undergrowth and as he did so there was a twang from Marian 's bow and one of his crutches spun from under him and he was down one-sidedly . |
23 | And so , feeling faintly and inexplicably troubled , he turned to head back to the yard . |