Example sentences of "now turn [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One now turns to his indexes with a sense of delicious anticipation , and here there is no disappointment . |
| 2 | Our discussion now turns to this aspect of contemporary Britain . |
| 3 | As he continues with the prayer that those who receive the sacrament may " be fulfilled with all hevenly benediction and grace through Jesus Christ " , so Rolle in The Form of Living now turns to a description of the interior awareness of this fulfilment . |
| 4 | Resuming the A.87 at the Killilan junction , the road now turns between banks ablaze with gorse and enters the populated environs of Dornie , bypassing the separate community of Ardelve and reaching the village over a long road bridge . |
| 5 | Mathematics and natural philosophy are concerned with ideas , and Berkeley now turns from them to spirits , of which God is a special case . |
| 6 | He now turns from his broadside position and thrusts with open jaws at his rival who , however , continues his broadside threatening , so that his unprotected flank is presented to the teeth of his enemy . |
| 7 | It is to the processes of this second reformation that Hilton now turns in chapter seventeen onwards , likening them to the gradual progress in recovery of full health after the medicine that effects the basic cure of the disease ( spiritually speaking , penance ) . |
| 8 | At this Agnes now turned on her mother , crying , ‘ Yes , I 'll tell you , Mother . |
| 9 | The intolerance he had shown for free-traders before 1914 was now turned on rebel Unionists who rocked the coalition boat . |
| 10 | If half the lights are now turned off what fraction of the building is |
| 11 | But , beware , because even a cursory flip through will leave thumps in throat at the thought of so much majestic machinery now turned into razor blades . |
| 12 | From the elegant small lounges to the beautifully appointed bedrooms located in the villa ( or in the neighbouring annexe residence at a reduction ) , and the former stables now turned into a charming restaurant , everything here speaks of innate good taste . |
| 13 | The very conditions which had originally supported the expansion of the model now turned into limits to its further development . |
| 14 | The distant hills were burnt to the ashen colour of the landscape Martini 's horseman rode through , each crowned by its sweltering farmhouse , now turned into a holiday home . |
| 15 | The light was not on in his room behind him , and from outside Mr Wolski might have seemed no more than an insubstantial shape , the reds and blues of his pyjamas now turned into grim black stripes against white , such as some of the prisoners in Nazi death camps of the Second World War had worn . |
| 16 | With various delicate transitions that left me sighing in assent , the film now turned into a gentle parodic love story , the girl civilizing Spunk — teaching him how to dress , eat , speak — and Spunk decivilizing her : teaching her to kick the booze , the pick-ups , the self-destruction , the money ( they go primitive for a while , after Spunk has an urban breakdown . |
| 17 | This , diverted , now turned into a recital about every distant relative Neil Cochrane possessed , all of whom , apparently , had only one wish — to see him back in polite society again . |
| 18 | She had no intention of dancing another record with him ; Callum 's hands were far too slippery — in fact she was beginning to regret having anything to do with him at all ; the pleasant , confident smile that had greeted her at the beginning of the evening had now turned into a quite definite leer . |
| 19 | The traditional cattle raids have now turned into full-scale battles with machine-guns replacing spears . |
| 20 | And it was to this man that almost everyone now turned as the rather quiet , rather cultured , rather interesting , wholly English voice began to speak : |
| 21 | Eyes , including Morse 's , now turned as if by some magnetic attraction towards John Ashenden , who sat , his eyes unblinking , in the front row of the seats . |
| 22 | The focus of the meeting now turned to the question of how these results should be released . |
| 23 | Mick now turned to his aunt and asked , ‘ Did Carrie pass her test ? ’ |
| 24 | Millie now turned to Ben , and he shrugged his shoulders , saying , ‘ It 's up to you ; but I could bring you back tomorrow , if you would like that ? ’ |
| 25 | The closure of the American office was a temporary set-back ; attention was now turned to Europe . |
| 26 | Yet it is migration to and from rural areas that has been the main concern of rural geographers in the last century , and so attention is now turned to the first major theme of this chapter , rural population change . |
| 27 | Two of these strategies directly relate to the topics to be considered next in this chapter , namely ( 2 ) the provision of facilities ( rural service provision ) and ( 1 ) socioeconomic conditions ( rural deprivation ) and so attention is now turned to rural service provision and rural deprivation . |
| 28 | The trends outlined above are , of course , only broad averages to set the scene and so attention is now turned to more detailed and more specifically geographical studies . |
| 29 | In the meantime one way in which the impact of second homes and other recreational uses could be more effectively assessed could be the development of theoretical models and statistical relationships , and so attention is now turned to this topic . |
| 30 | There was a current copy of the local rag lying on the chair beside him : he had read The Times and the Independent and now turned to the more microcosmic news . |