Example sentences of "who turned out to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The RUC sergeant went forward and arrested the man , who turned out to be the bank security guard who was rather the worse for drink , and had forgotten to lock the door ! |
| 2 | Jack and the vet ( who turned out to be an Irishman too ) drinking whiskey which they thought was brandy because I 'd put it into a brandy bottle … |
| 3 | In 1957 Fortune magazine published a list of America 's richest men , putting at the top the shy , reclusive , almost unknown J. Paul Getty , who turned out to be living in a modest room at the Ritz Hotel , London , conducting his world-wide oil business through the hotel switchboard with the minimum secretarial help . |
| 4 | In the Roman Catholic cathedral next door , I found a baffled couple from Pennsylvania , who turned out to be in the wrong cathedral . |
| 5 | Our tour manager was a quietly efficient , handsome lady , whose calm suggested those intrepid women who travelled these regions in the last century , and the lecturer was a young woman professor from Manchester University , who turned out to be an authority on mummification . |
| 6 | We were finally approached by a young man who turned out to be the club 's diving instructor . |
| 7 | After a cafeteria lunch that day with Jack Radford , Don Wilson and Jack Peach , I met the senior producer , James R. Finlay , who turned out to be friendly and helpful . |
| 8 | Hunchbacks and sea-horses — being captured by sailors who turned out to be octopuses — Dad with bloody hands , Mum drowning in mud … |
| 9 | Sir Eric and Lady Paignton were there , a kindly , elderly couple , who lived on the other side of the village , and one or two people from Clyst St George ; and a fat , over-dressed little woman who turned out to be Mrs Blessington-Dalrymple . |
| 10 | He accepted a glass from a black waiter and a kiss from a white puff-ball who turned out to be Camilla Welmsley . |
| 11 | ‘ My husband and I have never forgotten your Cordelia ; we saw it on our honeymoon , ’ said the young woman , who turned out to be the wife of an enthusiastic amateur producer of plays . |
| 12 | Among them a man who turned out to be an embalmer and whose advice and information were most useful . |
| 13 | Cuba has isolated people who turned out to be HIV positive . |
| 14 | The manifestations of Boltwood 's psychic powers started at the age of five when he talked to invisible people who turned out to be dead friends of his mother . |
| 15 | I smiled in answer to this , and started talking in French to a small , balding man who turned out to be Swiss and who was on the run from the customs in Geneva . |
| 16 | Later the same afternoon , seven of us were ordered over to the medical centre for a check up by the doctor , who turned out to be a medical student doing his military service . |
| 17 | Since he held by patent he could not be displaced and the work was executed by his deputy , Thomas Atkins , who turned out to be as dishonest and self-seeking as his principal . |
| 18 | But it was because Aaron said a mildly humorous comment about somebody in one of Whit 's photos who turned out to be one of Whit 's very good friends . |
| 19 | On arrival in Johannesburg , the first thing I noticed was a young , fresh , smiling face , who turned out to be the Second Secretary at the Consulate . |
| 20 | I left to live with a boyfriend , who turned out to be a bad lot . |
| 21 | A pale young Frenchwoman , who turned out to be the normally invisible secretary , Marie-Claire , was assuring the assembly in a shrill voice that everything was to proceed as normal . |
| 22 | The silver-haired gentleman , who turned out to be fluent in English and very charming in a gracious sort of way , chatted to her amiably about the south of France , though Alyssia did n't miss the way his eyes wandered unconsciously across to his wife every so often . |
| 23 | That left the third , who turned out to be Mrs Totteridge 's Father Topstock . |
| 24 | I kept stumbling over objects , like bar stools , or bumping into people who turned out to be barmen or waitresses . |
| 25 | The US Bank of New Orleans once even sent credit cards to potential customers with ‘ steady jobs ’ who turned out to be inmates working in Angola State Prison ! |
| 26 | In the course of the 1840s the young radical put together an informal association of disaffected contemporaries whose ranks , at one time or another , included the novelist Dostoevsky , the satirist and future provincial governor Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin , the future panslav Nikolai Danilevskii , Vladimir Miliutin ( a brother of the man who reformed St Petersburg 's municipal administration in 1846 ) , Valerian Maikov ( brother of a distinguished lyric poet ) and Nikolai Speshnev , who turned out to be the most extreme member of the company but was also " the only one … to lead the life of a leisured gentleman " . |
| 27 | But it was United who turned out to be the party poopers . |
| 28 | I remember some years ago sharing a few dinner dates with a young lady who turned out to be one of Prince Charles 's old friends . |
| 29 | Charlie , who turned out to be a regular size , was dealt with fairly quickly , but it took almost an hour to find anything that did n't make Tommy look as if he was entering a sack race . |
| 30 | By the sixth week , Charlie could strip and clean a rifle almost as quickly as Tommy , but it was his friend who turned out to be a crack shot and seemed to be able to hit anything that moved at two hundred yards . |