Example sentences of "[vb mod] turn [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People must turn up at the proverbial factory gates fresh , fit and ready to toil . |
| 2 | It is part of the players ' contracts that all the semi-finalists must turn up to the function after the World Open title . |
| 3 | Rough ground needs care for 70 yards until the roof drops and further progress is possible only by crawling ; here amateur explorers must turn back to daylight , lack of experience denying them further access into a waterfall chamber and eventual emergence at Calf Holes . |
| 4 | His country still insist he must turn out in an African Nations Cup qualifier against South Africa rather than the televised curtain-raiser at the City ground . |
| 5 | It was a perpetual anxiety with me that I should turn up at school wearing a dress that had been sold to that same shop by one of my fellow-pupils . |
| 6 | If you were particularly impressed by any of the candidates you may like to say that you have retained details on file in case anything suitable should turn up in the future . |
| 7 | Then , a few years ago , what should turn up in Nam Cat Tien ? |
| 8 | It also demonstrates that they have their root cause in godlessness ; so we should pray for our country , not that we should be saved from recession , but that we should turn back to God . |
| 9 | We shall regard as non-idiomatic ( or semantically transparent ) any expression which is divisible into semantic constituents , even if one or more of these should turn out on further analysis to be idioms . |
| 10 | ‘ If it should turn out to be true that God did intend males to exhibit strength in leadership roles and females to excel more as the guardians of society 's emotional resources , why should this be viewed ipso facto as an evil arrangement ? ’ |
| 11 | If vampires are capable of recognizing their friends , the experimentally starved bat should turn out to be fed only by those from its own original cave . |
| 12 | Only 0–40 per cent of pentads should turn out to be of this length or less in this context , so that the expected number of pentads like Saintbury is only about 0–0040 × 0–042 = 0–00017 — which is certainly significant at the 1 per cent level . |
| 13 | Often he has to interpret a badly worded question , with no hope of redress if his guess as to the examiner 's meaning should turn out to be wrong . |
| 14 | ‘ Nothing is impossible , ’ she cried furiously , disappointed that Lucenzo should turn out to be so lacking in integrity . |
| 15 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that there will be swift Government action to remedy that situation and will he commiserate with the Leader of the Opposition about the fact that his and his party 's principal supporter should turn out to be a crook ? |
| 16 | He should turn out to be a very useful right/full back . |
| 17 | He issued an order that all the able-bodied men in the garrison should turn out with shovels during the rare intervals between the downpours . |
| 18 | ‘ We should turn out in droves , all of us , and place our cross against the name of the person in whichever party will care more for the people , ’ said Mr Harper . |
| 19 | Another worry for the police is the possibility of a confrontation between New Age travellers who might turn up at Stow , the traditional travellers want to make it plain that if they do , they will not be made welcome . |
| 20 | Another worry for the police is the possibility of a confrontation between New Age travellers who might turn up at Stow , the traditional travellers want to make it plain that if they do , they will not be made welcome . |
| 21 | They might turn up on time and do all the right things , or they might not . |
| 22 | The executive might turn up in trainers and the double glazing salesman in a suit . |
| 23 | There was always that slight excitement and uncertainty about living in a London parish — one never knew who might turn up in church on Sunday . |
| 24 | Is not one of the problems of Russia in its current economic difficulties that the country might turn in on itself and revert to its usual historic xenophobic tendencies ? |
| 25 | The average business traveller , who does n't pay his own bills or make his own booking , will plump for that option in preference to a detour down a country lane or through suburbs in search of some unknown quantity which might turn out to be a gem . |
| 26 | Air transport was ruled out because of the danger of crashes on land , which in this case , because of the route , might turn out to be US soil in Alaska . |
| 27 | They might turn out to be the truth , for all Mungo knew , but he was not yet ready to take the shabby magician fully into his confidence . |
| 28 | The beam weapons that might seem invulnerable in 1983 might turn out to be no more potent than peashooters in 2033 . |
| 29 | No matter what the truth might turn out to be it would not affect Mark . |
| 30 | What that something might turn out to be he had no idea . |