Example sentences of "[noun sg] turn [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sat looking at me , his mouth turned down in a bitter line . |
| 2 | A huge ceiling fan turned slowly above an open area in the centre which was laid out with bentwood chairs and marble-topped tables for the bar customers . |
| 3 | Well away from the motorway now , each new place quickly gave way to further forest and , just as Jenna was beginning to be lulled into a strange peace by the dappled sunlight of the place , the soothing green of nature , the car turned on to a narrow road and began to climb steadily . |
| 4 | To discover the electron is rather different from discovering the kangaroo , because it is a theoretical entity inferred from certain abstruse experiments ; and Thomson 's apparently crucial experiment turned out in the twentieth century not to be so . |
| 5 | The right key turned sweetly in the heavy lock , and Cadfael opened the door . |
| 6 | Having said that , does n't every club turn up for the wrong match on the right day at least once or twice a season ? |
| 7 | Tory turned back for a last look at the rejected blooms as the ponies moved off . |
| 8 | The poem is thus curiously " displaced " , a late Victorian work turning up in the crisp 1930s , the Auden decade . |
| 9 | Head to the viewing platform and then turn right through the wood and go back to the field turning right down the hard path and going back to the Castle Bolton signpost . |
| 10 | With the scum being really lucky getting a draw from a good Norwich side , it seemed on the radio at least that Norwich had at least one decent penalty decision turned down from a spineless and gutless referee . |
| 11 | Ant : You do n't like school discos " cos your mum turned up at the last one at nine o'clock to take you home , and Fungus announced it over the mike . |
| 12 | The truck turned right by the big houses at the south edge of the Common and started along the straight stretch , where we were standing . |
| 13 | And Hoddle 's Heroes … a town turns out for the big salute . |
| 14 | He explained everything to me and I went across a big courtyard , through a door into a large hall , then up some stairs and along a landing turning left towards an outside terrace down to the lawns at the rear of the Palace . |
| 15 | The tunnel to the right turned left after a short distance , while the tunnel to the left led to a crossroads . |
| 16 | By the time he got to the ice-cream he was too weary to eat , so he downed the bourbon — which instantly took its toll — and retired to bed , leaving the television on in the next room , its sound turned down to a soporific burble . |
| 17 | The advent of war was not seen by Unionists as a need to turn back to a conventional patriotism , for Unionists had never doubted the patriotism of their previous stance . |
| 18 | And Gordon 's use of the melodramatic ( a vital dose of vanishingly scarce penicillin to treat a key character turns up at a crucial time ) is disappointing alongside the excellence of his writing elsewhere . |
| 19 | Then , late in the evening , my new friend turned up with a little white pill for each of us . |
| 20 | The parish council is very worried when the controversial barrier opens later this year problems in the village , already vulnerable to flooding , will increase as the water turned away from the shut gates will have nowhere else to go . |
| 21 | In his first over , he produced the only ball to turn extravagantly throughout the whole match , to ‘ gate ’ a startled Gooch . |
| 22 | Oh ! ’ she exclaimed , her claim turned upside-down as the little boy abruptly launched himself from her arms and headfirst into Vitor 's . |
| 23 | Later the same day Douglas , Duke of Hamilton — frustrated past belief turned up at the Foreign Office in London and informed them that he was seeking an urgent audience with the King . |
| 24 | They both show us a topsy-turvy world , a world turned inside-out by the particular lens through which it is viewed . |
| 25 | A large enzyme pool turning over at the same rate as a small one would produce more new enzyme , which would result in a greater amount of enzyme being available for secretion . |
| 26 | If , in such a movement , the head meets a brighter light on one side than the other , the animal turns away from the brighter side . |
| 27 | At this stage expression turns both to the outside or ‘ front ’ of the house as well as the internal setting . |
| 28 | PUPILS , parents and friends of Ellesmere Port Catholic High School turned out on a stormy evening , to make a recording for BBC Radio Merseyside 's regular Sunday morning programme , United in Song . |
| 29 | It follows that is not an objective number generated by considerations of overall balance in the labour market : its value turns critically on the political preferences of governments which are supposed to be in a position to define for themselves what unemployment rate will correspond to full employment and to be capable of action to achieve their newly defined objective . |
| 30 | The most common type of star in the Galaxy turns out to the humble red dwarf . |