Example sentences of "[pers pn] turn [adv prt] [prep] the [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | But when I turned up at the hospital they put me on call and I was called to Casualty to anaesthetise a man . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I turned up at the party pretty much at the start , I think , around a quarter to nine . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ! ’ |
| 10 | I turned off to the right . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I turned back towards the crowd . |
| 13 | Frightened , I turned back towards the boats , but the figure appeared again and moved with the speed of an animal . |
| 14 | I turned back to the phone . |
| 15 | I turned back to the harbour to wait for him to go away . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I turn up on the set with twenty pages of notes . |
| 19 | So good am I that I turn round on the runners to photograph Tony . |
| 20 | I turn back to the path ; before me , a bright full moon seals Amantani 's late gift . |
| 21 | I turn back to the guy in the armchair . |
| 22 | 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 ! |
| 23 | Which way shall I turn round for the fringe ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She turned over on the bed and sat up . |
| 26 | Hoping that nothing had gone wrong with the course of her friend 's romance , she turned around on the piano stool as she heard hard , firm footsteps walking along the terrace . |
| 27 | But actually it does n't tell you anything about the quality of the care which they 're purchasing and the evidence that we are getting increasingly from the community health council is the experience of people of the health service is that actually the quality of the care is getting worse and this is not due to the staff in the health ee the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the e the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the for an operation er , four years , it should to be said er , she 's been waiting despite the government 's claim that all operations are done within two years er for very severe varicose veins and surprisingly enough she got them because of course most varicose have been removed her , the north-east Thames region erm , and er she turned up on the Wednesday and the operation had been postponed twice previously er , she was er gone through all the er , various tests which took her four hours cos she had to find all the places herself , there was nobody to show her to X-ray and various other places erm she was prepared for the op and then was sent home because there was n't a bed available ! |
| 28 | One day she turned up with the Raleigh bike because she was worried that I did n't get out much . |
| 29 | The family 's maid has told how a dishevelled Spiro stopped her working when she turned up at the home the day after the killings . |
| 30 | She turned up at the Café Dôme one night , her beautiful dress torn to shreds . |