Example sentences of "[be] turn [adv prt] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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1 | But what commits the muscle to this final pathway and what ensures that all the necessary genes are turned on at the same time ? |
2 | A square vessel and parts of other domestic articles of wood were found about eight feet down in a peat moss at Strathmore , near Gruinart , and bones of a fifteen years old girl and a cow horn were turned up by the same peat diggers . |
3 | They demanded bracket construction for the overhead wires , but this was turned down for the same reasons as those in Mitcham . |
4 | Baroness Thatcher too is an Oxford graduate , but when moves were made to confer an honorary degree on her in the nineteen eighties , she was turned down by the same people , amid stormy controversy . |
5 | And that 's infuriated supporters of former Prime Minister Lady Thatcher who was turned down by the same people for an honorary degree after she 'd been at Ten Downing Street for five years . |