Example sentences of "it turned [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a while it turned on to a concrete road , where another truck was waiting . |
| 2 | It turned over with her daughter face down . |
| 3 | The X-Windows technology industry was worth $820m in 1992 , up 60% from the $510m it turned over in 1991 , according to a report by Fremont , California-based X Business Group . |
| 4 | Throughout the Ancient Near East seven was a sacred number , and it turned up in every area of Israel 's worship . |
| 5 | The sort of problems the owners ’ party have had on this trip so far are a tap that wo n't stop dripping , a blind that wo n't stay down in one of the bedrooms , eh ? , and a lady who thought one of her suitcases had been stolen , only it turned up in someone else 's room . ’ |
| 6 | And as they were fretting about it being nicked , it turned up in their own backyard . |
| 7 | Part of Gould 's collection sent from Sydney shortly after his first visit to New South Wales only narrowly escaped being lost when it turned up in a warehouse that Gould happened to visit in Adelaide . |
| 8 | It turned up in lost property . |
| 9 | This " trusted friend " ( until it turned round on the sufferer : there is a Chinese saying " First man takes drink , then drink takes drink , then drink takes man " ) was the only known method of suppressing unpleasant feelings and , although maybe no longer trusted , is nonetheless sadly missed . |
| 10 | But then it turned round towards the open stable door and went back to its place in the darkness , |
| 11 | It turned in at the gate and came chuntering up the track to pull up beside them . |
| 12 | History was sex , French was sex , art was sex , the Bible , poetry , penfriends , games , music , everything was sex except biology which was obviously sex but obviously not really sex , not the one which was secret and ecstatic and wicked and a sacrament and all the things it was supposed to be at one and the same time — I got that in the boiler room and it turned out to be biology after all . |
| 13 | He had give his name as E. Thomas Reardon and it turned out to be a pseudonym , so cheques left on the mantel were useless , and he must have known that they would be . |
| 14 | Certainly , when Yeats chaired the Irish Senate committee that commissioned the Irish coinage ( so wonderfully handsome as it turned out to be ) , it was photographs of Sicilian Greek coins that went out to prospective designers to show them what the committee had in mind . |
| 15 | Afterwards it turned out to be indispensable to his career . |
| 16 | It turned out to be a story about the residents of a block of flats being used as breeders by aliens , who implant their offspring into the unsuspecting humans . |
| 17 | It turned out to be the Mike Raven programme on Radio One . |
| 18 | But it turned out to be one of the most marvellous things we ever did . |
| 19 | Luckily it turned out to be an isolated incident but we had nightmares about a recurrence . |
| 20 | It turned out to be nearly the opposite ( laughs ) . |
| 21 | For their third cinematic adventure of the decade ( unless one counts the showing of George V 's funeral ) , they booked tickets at the cinema in Great Malvern to see Walt Disney 's Snow White and the Seven Dwarves It turned out to be ‘ first rate … |
| 22 | However , it turned out to be a very relaxed meeting , so much so that when the private session was over and the press were invited in to take photographs , the Prince said to the Pope , ‘ Let me introduce you to my press corps . ’ |
| 23 | Just as the record was going to be released , Dave came round and told us he 'd got another manager for us and it turned out to be Ralph Horton who we 'd auditioned for at The Roebuck Pub in Tottenham Court Road . |
| 24 | It turned out to be one of The Goodies , who were making a comedy programme for their series in the area . |
| 25 | But despite all the odds , it turned out to be better than most people expected . |
| 26 | Although described by the World Challenge brochure as an area rarely visited by Europeans , it turned out to be popular enough with tourists for each village to have its own visitors ' book ! |
| 27 | It turned out to be Douglas Hurd and Michael Heseltine , live from the campaign trail . |
| 28 | Despite a grim weather forecast the previous day , with the threat of thunderstorms , it turned out to be a sunny day — and it was quickly blessed with a record-breaking inward half of 29 by Mark Calcavecchia . |
| 29 | It turned out to be accurate in every respect . |
| 30 | But what a revelation it turned out to be . |