Example sentences of "[pers pn] turn [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I turned round in the tent mouth and sat down with my feet outside to take off my boots . |
| 2 | Not long after that blow to the ego , I turned up at a studio to do a commercial . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | But when I turned up at the hospital they put me on call and I was called to Casualty to anaesthetise a man . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I turned up at the party pretty much at the start , I think , around a quarter to nine . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I learnt this lesson the hard way : I turned up for a dinner party having remembered everything for the baby , even flowers for the hostess , and then the baby was sick all over my lovely silk skirt ! |
| 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 | Obviously there has to be ‘ give and take ’ on both sides ; for example , I would not expect to be guaranteed a space for the cycle if I turned up without a reservation . |
| 12 | 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 ! ’ |
| 13 | I turned off to the right . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I turned back towards the crowd . |
| 16 | Frightened , I turned back towards the boats , but the figure appeared again and moved with the speed of an animal . |
| 17 | I turned back to the phone . |
| 18 | I turned back to the harbour to wait for him to go away . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She wrote to him quite sharply , not caring who read her letter , that : — it is impossible for me to post a gun as you ought to know you foolish man for what would the post office officials think were I to turn up with a gun to send ? |
| 22 | I turn up on the set with twenty pages of notes . |
| 23 | So good am I that I turn round on the runners to photograph Tony . |
| 24 | I turn back to the path ; before me , a bright full moon seals Amantani 's late gift . |
| 25 | I turn back to the guy in the armchair . |
| 26 | As I turn in to the book of Genesis I read there of God coming to Abraham , and saying to Abraham , that Abraham in your family all the nations of the world are gon na be blessed ! |
| 27 | Which way shall I turn round for the fringe ? |
| 28 | There were a lot of very nasty people around , then as now , and if one of them turned up in no condition for a party , lying on the towpath , there was no questions asked . ’ |
| 29 | Although she turns up for the interview her customary peaked-capped urchin self , she is worried that her feminist interpreters will consider her video a sell-out . |
| 30 | She turned over on the bed and sat up . |