Example sentences of "[noun prp] turned [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rex turned a blind eye to the fact that he was obviously Officer Cecil , poorly disguised in false moustache , tailcoat and spats . |
| 2 | Ann turned a laughing face to me . |
| 3 | Hrun turned a puzzled face to him . |
| 4 | Senga turned a large adoring eyes on her brother . |
| 5 | Herr Nordern gave her a ghastly , feeble grin , as if asking for remission , but Frau Nordern turned a cold face away , showing only an upright back and stiff neck which in their rigidity seemed to symbolise the rectitude of all the generations of the Houses of von Bromberg and von Ritter . |
| 6 | Frau Nordern turned a marmoreal face , and when she spoke her voice was as cold as her face . |
| 7 | Kirov turned the brief list over in his mind , and a degree of optimism returned . |
| 8 | Michele turned a huge knob and , rather to her surprise , the left hand door swung open easily . |
| 9 | Then the index fell by almost 20 points below Monday 's close after Wall Street turned a tentative opening into a 25 point slump . |
| 10 | Men like Pugin , Ruskin and William Morris turned a distasteful and then a blind eye to the fast growing urban sprawl and preferred to live in genuine or fake medieval houses by rivers or lakes . |
| 11 | Stephen turned the main light off and returned to his father 's desk . |
| 12 | Julia turned the big collar of her fur coat up round her face and David took her arm . |
| 13 | The SDP won an extraordinary by-election success at Crosby in Liverpool in November 1981 , when Shirley Williams turned a Tory majority of 19,000 into an SDP majority of 5,000 . |
| 14 | When the carts had moved on Joseph turned a horrified face to his brother . |
| 15 | But the shrewd and hard-working daughter of the 14th Earl of Glamis turned the dire situation completely on its head . |
| 16 | As the constable rode away , Seb turned an incredulous look upon Tom . |
| 17 | Aggie turned a scornful glance on Ben , then pushed the cart through the gateway on to the road . |
| 18 | Sweetman turned a furious smeared face at us , then drove his garish boat hard at Wavebreaker 's hull to gouge a long scratch down to the bare metal . |
| 19 | Incidentally ; the choice of these two films represents a critical opinion , not only of their special effects though these are outstanding too , even if Oscar turned a blind eye but of the films as a whole . |
| 20 | Angelina turned a cold eye on him . |
| 21 | Magill turned the heavy glass in his hand studying the reflections on his drink . |
| 22 | Tuppe turned a fair coin impersonating babies for TV commercials , but his mind was ever upon higher things . |
| 23 | Doctor McCann turned an exasperated face away and addressed himself to Peg . |
| 24 | McPhee turned a concerned face towards him . |
| 25 | Stigwood turned a local scene into an international sensation , launched John Travolta as a box office star and cult hero and masterminded the biggest-selling soundtrack album of all time with a movie that encapsulated the energy and release of the disco age . |
| 26 | Back in the study , Flora turned a beseeching face upon Anna . |
| 27 | Our knowledge of all these sides of religious life at Canterbury at the time of the Conquest has had to be reconstructed by laborious scholarship , largely because Lanfranc turned a blind eye to every aspect of a native religious tradition . |
| 28 | Dinah turned a radiant smile on him . |
| 29 | Luke turned a venomous face to him . |
| 30 | Luke turned a white vicious face to him . |