Example sentences of "[noun] turn [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a Labour conference you get Gerry Adams turning up at a fringe meeting , and he the leader of Sinn Fein , which is cousin to the IRA , which in 1984 , in this same town , blew up the Grand Hotel in an attempt to murder the Prime Minister and Cabinet . |
| 2 | His look deepened and the corners of his well-defined mouth turned up in a half-smile of mystery . |
| 3 | His face was open and honest and smiled readily , the generous mouth turning upwards into a handlebar moustache . |
| 4 | Then four brothers turned up in a bus and killed three brothers who lived in that house next door . |
| 5 | The sight of the brigade turning out to a call , pulled by magnificent black horses , drew every child within half a mile of the Works main gates when the warning hooter sounded . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | His eyes were back on the road and he did not see Madeleine 's mouth turn down in a pout . |
| 8 | And even if Uncle Alan turns up within a month or two , he can hardly complain . |
| 9 | There was also Alec , a prison officer from Wormwood Scrubs ( when he 'd given his address and next of kin on a previous camp everyone had thought he was kidding ) ; Ken , who to everyone 's delight turned up with a guitar ( were we really going to sit round a campfire singing ? ) ; and David , an aircraft engineer who after fifteen years in the Scouts could ‘ do wonderful things with ropes ’ . |
| 10 | The pedestrian only slipped off when the motorist turned sharply into a side street , flinging him to the ground . |
| 11 | When Chelsea turned out on a Saturday afternoon , if we did n't lock the door , we had all the football fans in the shop trying to nick stuff and screaming obscenities . |
| 12 | As I locked the BMW , Werewolf turned slowly through a circle scanning the farm 's outbuildings with his shades . |
| 13 | In 1959 Dean Martin turned up in a Sinatra film , Some Come Running , having been wandering in the Hollywood wilderness since breaking up with his former screen buddy Jerry Lewis . |
| 14 | The court , therefore , went to Mr McTear , his living room turned over to a commission appointed by the Court of Session to hear his evidence . |
| 15 | When a television crew turns up for a tour of his house and DIY achievements , everything falls apart as he touches it . |
| 16 | Midnight turned gently from a blow that grazed his ribs and brought his right fist down , short and deadly , on to the side of the stubbled jaw . |
| 17 | The bearer turned left along a line of houses they had just come out of . |
| 18 | Mrs Hancock turned up in a Rolls-Royce after announcing she had organised a requiem mass at Perth 's St Mary 's Cathedral on Friday . |
| 19 | On occasion , so many people turned up to a Baldersdale funeral and the church or chapel became so crowded that people had to stand outside . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | Corporal Philip Ainsworth and Lance Corporal Andrew Zolden turned up in a 27-tonne Foden six-wheeler capable of hauling a light battle tank with its remote-control crane . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The most common cause of serious accidents on wire launches is making a snap decision to turn off for a 360° turn without ensuring that there is enough speed . |
| 24 | Remove from oven , after 5 minutes turn out on a rack to cool ; peel off the paper . |
| 25 | At Piteŝti the road turned left amid a forest of oil installations and then cut south-west to Craiova 120 kilometres further on . |
| 26 | The parents paraded with placards outside the Forest of Dean District Council offices as members turned up for a planning meeting . |
| 27 | A lane branches south-west from the top end of the buildings and at a right-angled corner turns away as a footpath to Clapham . |
| 28 | Thus in the Bathonian stage of the Middle Jurassic , the distinctive genus Flabellothyris turns up along a belt parallel to the present equator ( for example , in Mexico , Morocco and India ) and not to the north or south . |
| 29 | In the Hall study accidents at 177 signalized crossroads were analysed over a period of four years , over this period accidents involving a vehicle turning right outnumbered those to vehicles turning left by a ratio of 6.6:1 ( accidents involving one vehicle turning in each direction were excluded from the analysis ) . |
| 30 | FIREMEN and police turned up at a house in Bracknell , Herts , with sirens blaring after Nibbles the hamster became trapped under the bath . |