Example sentences of "[adv] turn [pron] [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Burdened by hindsight , by a chronic fear of becoming bloated and self-indulgent , this indie generation tries to freeze-flame development at the point just before ‘ it all went wrong ’ , and so turns its back on the few things that went right . |
| 2 | Wiltshire 's Social Services department has promised not to turn its back on the problem of alcoholics . |
| 3 | On Sept. 22 the President of the World Bank , Lewis Preston , called on donor nations to increase aid to developing countries , saying that " the international community must not turn its back on the poor " . |
| 4 | Unlike Mike , however , I shall not turn my back on the game I love . |
| 5 | By deliberately turning his back on the new spirit in art , Modigliani found himself excluded from most of the excitement and gaiety in the arts that flourished in spite of the war . |
| 6 | Rovers ' contract rebel , who is the subject of a reported £70,000 bid from Hull , has temporarily turned his back on the professional game to return to his amateur roots . |
| 7 | Having previously accepted the fact that the steam governor regulates the flow of steam , and having used this fact in my understanding of the behaviour of the whole engine , I now turn my curiosity on the steam governor itself . |
| 8 | The speaker presented a useful outline on screen initially , but far too frequently turned his back on the audience to read from the screen . |
| 9 | ‘ Calvin , do n't turn your back on the guests . |
| 10 | And what makes his analysis so attractive is the fact that he has resolutely turned his back on the temptations to reduce what he has seen to some supposedly more fundamental principle of animal behaviour . |
| 11 | The boyishly handsome officer inclined his head once more , then turned his back on the senator to offer the tray to his wife , Flavia , a strikingly beautiful woman in her late thirties . |
| 12 | In Paris , an engineering specialist in deep tunnelling in heavy rock strata , home on leave , made up his mind there and then to turn his back on the remaining two and a half years of his contract . |
| 13 | But size is n't everything , as they say , and great days can be had by occasionally turning your back on the Carnedds , Glyders and Snowdon itself . |