Example sentences of "turn out [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am told that she always looked attractive and very well turned out even at this particular time … |
| 2 | What had turned out even half-way right ? |
| 3 | ‘ However , the recovery in 1992 — expected by most economists and businesses — did not materialise and this year has turned out even more difficult than 1991 . ’ |
| 4 | In the twilight of its life , TOTP has opted for a radical face-lift , which has turned out instead like a make-over from Hell . |
| 5 | The small government flat I had been expecting turned out instead to be a large if simple village haveli , occupied by Mr Postman 's extended family — his three brothers , their children and Mr Postman 's old mother . |
| 6 | ‘ That drugs story you asked me to investigate , Ken , has turned out amazingly . ’ |
| 7 | Despite the uncertainties surrounding the future of the Kurds , the difficulties encountered in removing Iraq 's weapons of mass destruction and the anxiety provoked by the Bubiyan incident , most of the endeavours embarked upon by the UN in the crisis appear to have turned out reasonably well . |
| 8 | Things , however , have turned out slightly differently and the books have remained largely unopened . |
| 9 | There was a full page article announcing Darwinism is dead , which turned out as a matter of fact to be a reprint of an article which had appeared some months earlier in the Sunday Times of this country , erm which in fact was based very largely on some work by a young man called Steele , which none of us , I think , believed at the time , and which was since turned out clearly to have been mistaken . |
| 10 | And we can exclusively reveal that it 's turned out nice again for The Liverpool George Formby Society who will have their first ever meeting on Friday , November 13th . |
| 11 | He has turned out badly , my young uncle , a delinquent practically . |
| 12 | Animals in all stages of misery are turned out on to the streets , left in remote areas , even just left behind after the family holiday . |
| 13 | Thousands of school children , all of them well over sixteen , were crammed there into a large tall gilt room , and told not to insult the French , not to talk to Arabs , and not to go to Montmartre : then an English lady stood up and said that Paris had always been for her a source inépuisable de something , and everyone clapped , and then they were all turned out again , rather quickly , for the room was clearly needed for something else . |
| 14 | Joey Kelly has become something of a racing machine for he was only beaten a short head at Enniskillen last Saturday , then won at Dromore on Wednesday before being turned out again yesterday . |
| 15 | Once the light had been turned out again , slowly , inch by inch , Charlie continued his crab-like advance , now more fearful of a stray bullet from his own side than from the enemy 's . |
| 16 | The Government are guilty of mismanagement , gross neglect and maladministration , and should be turned out tomorrow because they are not fit to govern . |
| 17 | When he was seen in the special department , after blood tests for syphilis , taken as a last resort , had turned out strongly positive , he remembered having noticed a sore on his penis some five months earlier but had not bothered with it as it was not painful and had gone away after a couple of weeks . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's turned out rather well . ’ |
| 19 | Well , it 's turned out not so badly , he thought , although it 's been a rough ride . |
| 20 | This was a third form of government , after rule by gentlemen and rule by military discipline had turned out not to be very successful , and most Englishmen would have found it rather less usual than either of the earlier types of government . |
| 21 | Her chicken-pox had turned out not to be chicken-pox but an over-violent reaction to a takeaway pizza . |
| 22 | The true moral of the Nun 's Priest 's Tale is a moral of character and attitude not of precept ; and appropriately the Host responds by commenting on the Nun 's Priest as a character who has proved to be what the Monk has turned out not to be . |
| 23 | ‘ You 've already told me a great many things , an alarming number of which have turned out not to be true . |
| 24 | ‘ In the beginning , it looked as if it would be a real problem finding a side to play Malta after six call-offs but I think it has turned out not too badly in the end , ’ said the national coach , who released Aberdeen 's Stephen Wright from his squad to play at Tannadice this afternoon ( kick-off 1:30pm ) . |
| 25 | This was a sardonic reference to the distance which has sometimes separated Levein from selection by the national coach , though the idea of McQueen , last capped against Wales in 1981 , being recalled has turned out not to be so fanciful after all in the midst of the worst injury crisis of Roxburgh 's association with Scotland . |
| 26 | It was true that Ted Mosse had turned out not to be too honest , even in his best uniformed days , had run various little corruptions and been found out , but it did not seem the sort of bad behaviour that would have worried most of working-class South London . |
| 27 | Joining in meant she could lose herself , forget , live for the moment just as Mark had always done — Oh , he had been a little wild on occasions , she knew that deep down , but Mark , being Mark , things had always turned out OK in the end … until that last time , of course … |
| 28 | She sipped the pink gin , and for a few delirious seconds Peter wondered if it had turned out well because she had met him instead . |
| 29 | Her daughter-in-law was forced to chat on brightly to Greg about whether the sponge had turned out well , and whether Greg liked ginger nuts . |
| 30 | If there has been no irregularity , the law does not mend or amend contracts merely for the relief of those for whom things have not turned out well . |