Example sentences of "[adv] turned [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as if someone had suddenly turned off the sound . |
| 2 | After a shamingly large second supper of chicken , sweetcorn and cake , a vast vodka and tonic and half a bottle of red wine , at one o'clock in the morning the chatter suddenly turned into the Frogsmore Stream running under Snow Cottage and she fell asleep until six to find the chatter going on as loud as ever . |
| 3 | It was an attitude of mind which had existed long before the sixteenth century ; the great change was that an attitude which could be found in a number of separate societies was suddenly turned by the expansion of Europe into a force that altered the way that the whole world ran its affairs . |
| 4 | The other students stayed seated , all turned towards the newcomer , anxious to make his acquaintance , and I knew only too well that he could have any one of them he liked as his friend . |
| 5 | Voluptuous girlfriends , sisters and mothers constantly turned against the hot dusty wind to secure their cascading glossy hair with plastic bull-dog clips . |
| 6 | A flicker of recollected pleasure that swiftly turned to the pain of regret crossed his face . |
| 7 | As Ron Morris acknowledges , the basic premise behind the aims of Roseberry and SkillBuilding is hardly revolutionary , but it remains an idea rarely turned into the bricks and mortar of practical success . |
| 8 | When occasionally he rather wearily turned on the Government , the reaction was one of surprise more than of dismay . |
| 9 | Although her owners had tried every method of finding her , including local radio appeals , Tim Charlesworth eventually turned to the last resort of hiring a helicopter to help in the search . |
| 10 | The other , which is no longer turned toward the origin , affirms play and tries to pass beyond man and humanism … |
| 11 | Approval listings will only be produced in your current default directory if the LIFESPAN manager has NOT turned off the production of approval listings . |
| 12 | Mr Patten said that he had not turned against the idea of any and all new towns : ‘ So long as the location is right and so long as people can have real confidence that a decision in favour of a new settlement will relieve development pressures elsewhere , then new villages and new settlements could have a part to play in increasing the acceptability of new housing decisions . ’ |
| 13 | They 've just turned to the zone game after generations of the sweeper system . |
| 14 | And she had just turned on the TV , hoping for a late news-programme , when she heard the light knock on her bedroom door . |
| 15 | We had driven back to the village and had just turned off the road on to the In Salah track . |
| 16 | God , I was nearly in an accident last night , that reminds me , coming , I 'd just turned off the Wrexham road , er going along the Paisword one |
| 17 | He had just turned from the window , intent on leaving , when the woman walked back into the room . |
| 18 | At in we 'd just turned round the corner and it conked out . |
| 19 | we 'll walk down the road at the back and we 'd only just turned round the corner from the Claremont and we found this restaurant and it was , it was an absolutely brilliant chef , really nice restaurant , really high quality and it was was quite reasonable price , it was n't cheap . |
| 20 | At this point , the Mozambican government finally turned to the IMF . |
| 21 | Bernice 's spinning head finally turned from the stone . |
| 22 | Most towns and villages in the rest of the county had already turned to the association game by the turn of the century , but before 1907 their enthusiasm centred around their local teams . |
| 23 | But Faye had already turned to the thick , creamy frontispiece to check for herself before leafing through the rest of the volume . |
| 24 | From now on the head is generally turned in the direction of the firm foot . |
| 25 | Obvious song has to be to the old Guantalamera ( ? ) one , which is usually turned into the ‘ One Rodney Wallace , there 's only one etc . ’ |
| 26 | He is said to have once turned off the water supply to Newcastle — which he owned — when a local hotel refused to serve him a drink . |
| 27 | People travelled from remote lands just to be a part of it , for no one was ever turned from the door . |
| 28 | Laying his blooded axe beside her twisted form , Bash once more turned to the letters … |
| 29 | Needing no invitation , Theodora once more turned towards the school . |
| 30 | A month ago Serbia 's Mr Milosevic formally turned against the Bosnian Serbs , and said he would let no more military help get through to them . |