Example sentences of "turned [adv prt] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He turned down flat the king 's ransom , the pot of gold , the answer to his poverty-prayers he had always dreamt of . |
| 2 | Thinking there was too much water in the system , rather than too little , they turned off even the emergency cooling system which had by then been activated . |
| 3 | Cameron turned back up the Tay , glad that the harvest of names was nearly home . |
| 4 | I moored the boat , got out , collected the rods from the shore , and turned back up the loch . |
| 5 | Anthony started to translate this , out of an inability to do anything else with it , and when he turned round again the waiter had disappeared . |