Example sentences of "[pers pn] turn [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I turned away from the window and sank down upon the bed . |
| 2 | I turned away from the scars near Warrendale Knots and dropped down by Middle High Hill to Settle and lunch at the Naked Man where the nicest ladies you could ever wish to meet serve real Yorkshire food , and plenty of it . |
| 3 | I turned round in the tent mouth and sat down with my feet outside to take off my boots . |
| 4 | I turned up at the Comedy Store here in London one night , petrified , because in those days it was a pretty testing place with a drunk , unruly audience . |
| 5 | When I turned up at the theatre and Terry and I got changed next to each other , I frequently made a point of saying to him , ‘ Well , Terry , has the call come yet ? |
| 6 | But when I turned up at the hospital they put me on call and I was called to Casualty to anaesthetise a man . |
| 7 | ‘ There was the time I turned up at the Arts Lab ( first and last time ) to see the Dylan film and could n't afford it . |
| 8 | ‘ I turned up at the party pretty much at the start , I think , around a quarter to nine . |
| 9 | Asked about his first day , Terry said : ‘ I was stunned when I turned up on the Monday only to be confronted with the aftermath of the weekend fire . |
| 10 | ‘ I turned up for the interview , amid all these Bond beauties , in my tight black jersey dress on a really hot day , with false nails and false eyelashes sliding down my face , ’ Julie recalls with a smile . |
| 11 | I turned off to the right through the row of trees , and just as I was meandering past thy rhododendrons I shouted , ‘ Hell and damnation ! ’ |
| 12 | I turned off to the right . |
| 13 | But this was an A-road and I wanted to keep mainly to the minor routes , so half-way up I turned off behind the Ponderosa Cafe and joined the Old Horseshoe Pass . |
| 14 | I turned back towards the crowd . |
| 15 | Frightened , I turned back towards the boats , but the figure appeared again and moved with the speed of an animal . |
| 16 | I turned back to the phone . |
| 17 | I turned back to the harbour to wait for him to go away . |
| 18 | I looked round very carefully but could see nothing , so I turned back on the tail of the nearest Hun , who was chasing some Hurricanes in front of him . |
| 19 | After crossing several fields I turned down to the right to follow a metalled road for a while until I reached the first real treat of the day , the Roman road . |
| 20 | Still , I did n't risk a second run and instead I turned left at the end and found myself back on Plumstead Road . |
| 21 | No , I just came over fields , I went along and followed a dyke , I turned left at the cafe , and then followed the first I saw going up . |
| 22 | I turn up on the set with twenty pages of notes . |
| 23 | I turn finally to the suggestion that the compensatory figure to Christ who is male , is Mary who is female . |
| 24 | So good am I that I turn round on the runners to photograph Tony . |
| 25 | I turn back to the path ; before me , a bright full moon seals Amantani 's late gift . |
| 26 | I turn back to the guy in the armchair . |
| 27 | I turn now to the question of the relevance of such an account to language learning , in particular as that process is carried out in classrooms under the direction , or at least the surveillance , of the teacher . |
| 28 | Having alluded to some of the characteristics of Community legal texts , I turn now to the question of their application in the Member States , and in particular in the United Kingdom . |
| 29 | I turn now to the rights of individual union members . |
| 30 | I turn now to the information that is held on the national computer about which the hon. Gentleman asked a number of questions . |