Example sentences of "[noun] turn [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly , however , where the overall number of speakers is small as it is in many sociolinguistic surveys , the number of higher-status speakers turning up in a random selection procedure which samples from the entire urban area will be correspondingly small . |
| 2 | He sat looking at me , his mouth turned down in a bitter line . |
| 3 | She looked down at her new French muslin pyjamas , the corners of her thin lips turning up in a rueful smile , wondering if the whisky stains would come out — and deciding that they probably would n't . |
| 4 | Edward turned away from the assembled prelates and nobles of his council and addressed Philip V as follows : |
| 5 | A huge ceiling fan turned slowly above an open area in the centre which was laid out with bentwood chairs and marble-topped tables for the bar customers . |
| 6 | Richard turned left for the underground , Martin hailed a taxi . |
| 7 | Rex turned back to the little blighter . |
| 8 | Well away from the motorway now , each new place quickly gave way to further forest and , just as Jenna was beginning to be lulled into a strange peace by the dappled sunlight of the place , the soothing green of nature , the car turned on to a narrow road and began to climb steadily . |
| 9 | About 30 journalists turned up at the Thai border village of Pong Nam Ron , about 200 miles east of Bangkok , yesterday morning , but were told by the local Thai military commander that he knew of no Vietnamese prisoners . |
| 10 | More than 40,000 fans turned up for the 12-hour event , Britain 's biggest-ever legal Rave gig . |
| 11 | Heads turned all along the quiet Kensington street . |
| 12 | As though aware that her control was slipping again , Mrs Wallington turned back to the disciplined criss-cross of string and concentrated with almost palpable force . |
| 13 | His lips turned up in a terrible parody of a smile . |
| 14 | His lips turned up in a self-satisfied smile . |
| 15 | To discover the electron is rather different from discovering the kangaroo , because it is a theoretical entity inferred from certain abstruse experiments ; and Thomson 's apparently crucial experiment turned out in the twentieth century not to be so . |
| 16 | The right key turned sweetly in the heavy lock , and Cadfael opened the door . |
| 17 | When you arrive at the traffic lights in Welshpool turn left into the main street and carry on up past the town hall on your right hand side . |
| 18 | Having said that , does n't every club turn up for the wrong match on the right day at least once or twice a season ? |
| 19 | Mirth being in decidedly short supply over the past few weeks amidst the myriad financial scandals and news of the ongoing long-gingering of the gay law reform bill , there was no doubt among the many disappointed punters turned away from the full house on opening night that they were still intent on partying on down at Cork 's new lesbian and gay centre , The Other Place . |
| 20 | The UN felt swamped by the quality and quantity of NATO staff work — NATO planners turned up with no fewer than five bound volumes — in the initial stages of the joint operation that was set up to keep the peace in Bosnia should the Bosnian Serbs join the Croats and Muslims in accepting the Vance-Owen peace plan . |
| 21 | Tory turned back for a last look at the rejected blooms as the ponies moved off . |
| 22 | The poem is thus curiously " displaced " , a late Victorian work turning up in the crisp 1930s , the Auden decade . |
| 23 | Delaney stood , watching the hatch close up , with the last view of the car headlights turning away towards the main building and the control tower . |
| 24 | Ruth turned back to the fifth-floor window as the stranger appeared to be heading her way . |
| 25 | They are analogous to the family saloons that car production lines turn out by the thousand . |
| 26 | On leaving Culworth turn right off the main leisure route and follow the signs to ‘ Sulgrave ’ . |
| 27 | Cardiff turned away from the rain-streaked window as the policemen on cordon-duty lifted the wooden pole and the last of the cars slid away into the night . |
| 28 | Head to the viewing platform and then turn right through the wood and go back to the field turning right down the hard path and going back to the Castle Bolton signpost . |
| 29 | On 29 September 1955 , with just a few days of filming to go , Dean turned up at a gay party at Malibu which culminated in a bitchy foray between Dean and a former male lover who accused him of dating women purely for publicity . |
| 30 | Big crowds turned out around the 1.46 mile city centre circuit , covered eight times after the international field had already done 105 miles over tough territory in Yorkshire and Lancashire . |