Example sentences of "turn [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As he turns away from the grave ( symbolically as well as literally ) he meets , beside the yew-tree ( traditional symbol of death ) a Girl whose appearance is strikingly unusual . |
| 32 | The route turns away from the Ffos-y-Mynach at Waun Lodi where the path is boggy and dangerous . |
| 33 | The pragmatist , continues James , ‘ turns away from abstraction and insufficiency , from verbal solutions , from bad a priori reasons , from fixed principles , closed systems , and pretended absolutes and origins . |
| 34 | She passes the flower over the floating corpse , turns away from the scene she ca n't bear to watch . |
| 35 | The analysis of sin that occupies much of the second half of the book and which , perhaps fittingly from a literary point of view , distorts the balanced analytic framework of the role and nature of contemplative life in the first half , is frozen in a definitive icon in which the body of death is horriby manifested with a head of pride , back of covetousness ( worldly things that the anchoress turns away from ) , a heart of envy , arms of anger , a belly of greed , genitals of lechery and feet of despairing sloth which find it difficult to stir themselves to good works ( prayer and meditation for the anchoress ) ( 85.355a — 6a. – 154 – 5 ) . |
| 36 | ‘ Goodnight , ’ she says firmly and turns over on her side . |
| 37 | A derelict ship turns over on her keel and lies gracefully at rest , but there is only one way up for a Thames barge if she is to maintain her dignity . |
| 38 | The entire stock of the nation 's glasses turns over in two years so there is no reason why this measure should result in any implementation costs or why the price of a pint should go up . |
| 39 | FACED with cuts of around 15 per cent in support from the government , Manchester University 's Institute of Science and Technology has turned successfully to industry for support . |
| 40 | By banking the model and using back cyclic , the model can be turned rather like a fixed-wing model . |
| 41 | go down it 's it 's first left once you 've turned right at |
| 42 | Above : This car was bound for Squires Gate on 18 June 1955 , when the car suddenly turned right into Station Road , the points having been left open by the previous Marton car . |
| 43 | I 'd just turned right off the B1 150 at Fairstead when I nearly crashed into the back of this unlit car skewed across the road . |
| 44 | I had now turned right across the width of the mill where another staircase led up to the top floor . |
| 45 | To eliminate any chance of the lathe being turned on during routing the router is plugged into the socket which the lathe normally uses . |
| 46 | This output is in turn fed to a monostable made up from NAND gates IC4c , IC4d which is turned on for a period of a few milliseconds determined by the values of resistor R17 and capacitor C4 . |
| 47 | In the illustration the trial phase is turned on for fixed times and the rate of current rise , and corresponding rotor position , is deduced from the current level attained at the end of the trial . |
| 48 | Sara waited , on guard against the charm which she felt was being turned on for her . |
| 49 | Each side in turn went close to dispensing with extra time , Crown hitting a post then Paul Gascoigne having a chip turned on to the bar . |
| 50 | There was something wrong with the ballcock , and if both taps were turned on to capacity at the same time there was an overflow outside . |
| 51 | Turned on to tap ! |
| 52 | Neither of them spoke as Dalgliesh negotiated the track and finally turned on to the higher road . |
| 53 | But even as the mainstream has turned on to S&M images , those involved in the scene have been subject to increased harassment from the authorities . |
| 54 | He had a moped hidden in some bushes not far away and now he 's turned on to the track going up the mountain . |
| 55 | Newman drove along the narrow road he 'd turned on to off the B4027 at no more than thirty miles an hour . |
| 56 | He adds that only two computer companies so far have sent manufacturing groups out to see what Crec is doing — IBM Corp , and ICL Plc , which has really turned on to ergonomics and the environment since it bought Nokia Data AB . |
| 57 | In TV , the cost is based on TV Ratings ( TVRs ) , which are the percentage of households in which the TV is turned on to ITV at the time the ad is run ; in press , the cost is per thousand readers ( or , occasionally , circulation ) of the given publication ; in cinema , it is based on audience sizes ; in posters , on people passing the poster and , therefore , able to see it . |
| 58 | He had turned on to his back and was sculling slowly with his forearms , face-up to the evening sky , the chill spreading in his limbs , spreading up under his ribcage , spreading behind his eyes . |
| 59 | The critical questions have to be turned on to the discipline and relevant examples furnished from within the discipline . |
| 60 | Strobe lights are turned on to full effect for ‘ Bring It On Down ’ , which comes complete with a sample of Donna Summer 's old disco smash ‘ I Feel Love ’ , incongruous amidst the white English chaos — albeit a very controlled and theatrical type of chaos . |