Example sentences of "turned [adv prt] [to-vb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thousands turned up to watch the retired steeplechaser go through his paces in the main ring , and Dessie even found time to make a new little friend . |
| 2 | but it went ; because half the people turned out to hate the other half and so everybody had to strive like anything to make things go . |
| 3 | But Luke turned out to have the rare gift of making his subject not merely comprehensible , but absorbingly interesting . |
| 4 | Their visitor turned on her heel and went to the door where she turned back to hold the broken doll up to Artemis . |
| 5 | Dragging her thoughts into line , she turned back to scan the empty office , mentally checking her appearance . |
| 6 | But having snapped the thread which had led Hegel on from there to his speculative Absolute , they turned back to find the real meaning and reference of these objectifications in the subject which had produced them as forms of its own self-expression . |
| 7 | He put the phone down and turned round to see the whole family looking at him , open-mouthed . |
| 8 | The driver was oiling an axle box when he turned round to see the trim figure of a young lady with a small boy near the first compartment of the carriage next to the tender . |