Example sentences of "turn back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stephen Orgel discerns in the theatre of this time the fear that man 's superior development could be reversed — ‘ that men can turn into — or be turned into — women ; or perhaps more exactly , can be turned back into woman , losing the strength that enabled the male potential to be realized in the first place . ’ |
| 2 | Gaily turned back into the kitchen . |
| 3 | It can then be turned back into wind for another attempt . |
| 4 | A few Bronze Age artifacts were turned up in the dark soil , but they had meant nothing to those who had seen them , and they had been turned back into the earth . |
| 5 | The restaurant has been turned back into a house — little expense spared and the quality of work by the local joiner is superb , no other word for it . |
| 6 | The presence of immigration officials and police on board trains is comparable to the scenes of 1930s America where migrant labourers were turned back at state boundaries . |
| 7 | Reports reached rally organisers that 1,000 Muslims were turned back at Gotse Delchev on their way to Sofia . |
| 8 | The plan was that everyone would meet at the cottage on Boxing Day , making their own way there and hopefully bringing enormous amounts of expensive food and drink if they did n't want to be turned back at the gate . |
| 9 | The almost innumerable Goblins ravaged a large tract of Yvresse and were barely turned back at Tor Yvresse by the heroic efforts of Eltharion . |
| 10 | With the border opening looking increasingly doubtful in the week preceding Aug. 13 , members of several South Korean dissident groups attempted to make their own way to Panmunjom but were turned back at police roadblocks . |
| 11 | Macedonian vehicles were being turned back at the Greek border and hundreds of thousands of demonstrators in Salonika ( Greek Macedonia ) protested on Feb. 14 at the republic 's use of the name Macedonia . |
| 12 | Once the servicing valve is fitted the water can be turned back on . |
| 13 | Although 45 tonnes of food supplies sent by the United Nations Children 's Fund ( UNICEF ) had arrived from Nairobi by air on Feb. 29 , a ship carrying supplies from the UN World Food Programme was turned back on March 3 and 5 from the docks at Mogadishu due to shelling . |
| 14 | France protested to Libya on Oct. 28 after a French examining magistrate investigating the bombing of a UTA airliner in Sept. 1989 was turned back on arrival in Tripoli . |
| 15 | France protested to Libya on Oct. 28 after Bruguière was turned back on arrival at Tripoli [ see p. 39168 ] . |
| 16 | Such thoughts lead naturally to the manhood of Christ , the sharp reminder that the Incarnation provides of both the destructive nature of sin and the means by which this destruction is turned back on itself — laid waste . |
| 17 | Although it was not the case when Paul was stabbed , those carrying knives often have the blade turned back on them , and Mr Wood is anxious that no more young people end up injured or worse . |
| 18 | Some may have regretted the excursion and eventually turned back for home . |
| 19 | Paul and Malcolm Bream first spent time exploring possible sources of voluntary funding , and then saw what might be done with the local authority , but have now turned back to their original search for their own place . |
| 20 | Gaily turned back to his book . |
| 21 | As I entered , Miss Kenton had turned back to the window . |
| 22 | Smith had therefore turned back to an earlier idea of Carl Gauss . |
| 23 | They had turned back to Sicily and I could n't see a formation but spotted a straggler who , curiously enough , was flying diagonally across our line of approach and not heading pell-mell for home . |
| 24 | Ian Clarke , a Bank of England executive , and his wife Jacqueline promptly turned back to Surrey so they would be nearer Heathrow and Gatwick airports — and better placed to take off for Australia . |
| 25 | Blasts from weapons went astray or were turned back to their sources so that the warlock seemed to be using his/her assailants as puppets to fight themselves . |
| 26 | ‘ My family were Huguenots , my lady , and therefore unwanted in la belle France , ’ D'Alembord 's contemptuous scorn for France made the Countess bridle , but he had already turned back to Lucille . |
| 27 | ( In good humour he has already turned back to the mime : the two SPIES awaiting execution at the hands of the PLAYER ) Audiences know what to expect , and that is all that they are prepared to believe in . |
| 28 | And when the lightning had forked inwards through the window and shattered the typing-pool window , Gilbert had turned back to Rohmer in helpless appeal . |
| 29 | But Camille had turned back to her toenails and could n't see her mother 's face . |
| 30 | As Dexter adjusted to the dark , he saw that Blanche had turned back to him , her heavy-lidded eyes trained on his face . |