Example sentences of "[pron] turn [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes no I think once I turned round in that way and I would n't |
| 2 | I had a strange sensation when , on an autumnal Friday afternoon , I turned up at Old Admiralty Building , to have a viva voce on my written evidence to the Falklands Inquiry . |
| 3 | Problem was I was playing a British Military Police Chief , and I still had my uniform on when I turned up at this place . |
| 4 | I turned back to seventeenth-century France . |
| 5 | Mindful of Ace 's warning , she kept her cool , but it was n't easy , and the final straw was when Jason himself turned up as chief fuel technician . |
| 6 | Every single one of them turned round at that meeting and said , will you go and beat the out of that government for what they 're doing to us . |
| 7 | But I suppose you get insight er twenty per cent was she ca n't outrun him I think this bit she gets killed and she turns up in Little England , this come on . |
| 8 | Detention is supervised by a custody officer who turns out on closer inspection to be a police officer with a different name . |
| 9 | I did n't expect her to do so , but what I did n't know then was that she had a holiday cottage in Muker , which is not far over the hills in Swaledale , and one day she turned up with some friends of hers . |
| 10 | She turned about in unashamed panic . |
| 11 | This morning for instance the Scottish executive of the people 's party will have an opportunity to examine the fruits of some of the labours of the Scottish Trades Union Congress , which has been functioning as the honest broker following the swiftly evaporating euphoria of the 25,000 souls who turned up on 12 December . |
| 12 | The PE department sent pupils who turned up with inadequate kit , by contrast , other teachers would not send even obviously disruptive pupils for fear of causing their suspension . |
| 13 | He was scornful , too , of the humanitarian-aid programme run for the contras by the State Department through the NHAO , which Owen familiarly called the ‘ no-way , no-how ’ and the ‘ no-hope programme ’ ; the State Department itself turned up on local code-sheets as ‘ wimps ’ , the CIA as ‘ assholes ’ , the portly Shultz as ‘ Nancy ’ . |
| 14 | You turn up in unexpected places . |
| 15 | ‘ If you think I 'm going to let you turn out at this time of night you 've got another think coming . |
| 16 | It looked good for the cherry and whites , as they turned round at half time with an 8-0 lead . |
| 17 | His telegraph then went on " This afternoon General Robertson , Chief Administrative Officer AFHQ requested us to concur in a draft telegram to CG British Eighth Army authorising him to turn over 28,000 Cossacks ( see our 797 of October 16 , 1944 Midnight ) , including women and children to Marshal Tolbukhin , and further instructing him to turn over to Yugoslav Partisans a large number of dissident Yugoslav troops with exception of Chetniks . " |
| 18 | The imperial eagle and the personification of Victory are obvious examples of symbols of imperial power , but they turn up with surprising frequency upon ornamental furniture , lamps and , most notably , 15 funerary monuments . |
| 19 | You 've got to give them a very specific task to do and give them the support and the materials to do it with and make sure it happens so that when they turn up at 3 o ’ clock , it 's set up to go . |
| 20 | Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 the NCC must offer a management agreement to any farmer on an SSSI whose application for an agricultural grant it turns down on conservation grounds . |
| 21 | According to Axelrod and Hamilton , ‘ It turns out in many cases that if a fig wasp entering a young fig does not pollinate enough flowers for seeds and instead lays eggs in almost all , the tree cuts off the developing fig at an early stage . |
| 22 | Oh no , they and he turns up in some hanging from a chain he 's being cruel to her is n't he ? |
| 23 | He turned up in northern Cyprus , declaring himself happy to be home . |
| 24 | I said , why , and he said , he turned round with these glasses on , then he said it was just like John 's stood there . |
| 25 | It turned up in lost property . |
| 26 | It said it expects initial products to be high-end servers and so it turned out in most cases . |
| 27 | Certainly , this does not have to be prenominal ; we can also expect it to turn up in postnominal attribution , and it does , in sentences like ( 13 ) ( a ) and ( b ) : ( 13 ) ( a ) the fish gutted lay waiting for the wholesalers ( b ) the fish , gutted , lay waiting for the wholesalers In the background of ( a ) , but not of ( b ) , there are other fish which have not undergone the same treatment . |
| 28 | Why does n't he turn up to any practices ? |
| 29 | He argues that most individual subject areas themselves turn out on closer examination to contain a diversity of research styles and epistemological characteristics . |