Example sentences of "turned [adv prt] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Livsey : Will the Secretary of State note that British Coal Opencast has decided again to try for permission to work the Bryn Henllys site in my constituency , after an inspector turned down that application about a year ago ? |
| 2 | Other than that he showed up Giggs for the puke faced brat that he is ( all 10,000,000 and Papin worth of him — Ferguson will rue the day he turned down that offer ) . |
| 3 | The local council says the women turned down other accomodation but admits there is severe housing pressure in the Wantage area . |
| 4 | The Trustees turned down this request , saying that a larger scheme at a later date would be preferable . |
| 5 | The American administration turned down this offer for fear of weakening the case for constructing the new Diego Garcia base . |
| 6 | Yorick turned down this attempt at consolation . |
| 7 | High-flying Norwich had a £1 million approach for Armstrong turned down last year . |
| 8 | Yet in spite of these difficulties the Company turned down any chance of surrender ‘ and would be treated as brigands ’ according to the message Donald Ross brought to Hatu-Lia on 13 March — three weeks after the Japanese landed . |
| 9 | Dexter 's notebook rustled as he turned over another page . |
| 10 | On the domestic front , the General turned over more power to Pompidou than he had done before 1965 , although he did not abandon domestic politics entirely . |
| 11 | One of the ‘ cattle men ’ turned up one day at Costa Rica 's legitimate airport and had to be rescued by Fernandez : in his cattle-man 's briefcase were $5,000 in cash to pay for workers on the strip , a spare cassette from North for Fernandez 's KL-43 encrypting device , and brown manila envelopes from the White House containing photographs of Fernandez with Reagan . |
| 12 | ‘ He just turned up one day , ’ said their leader . |
| 13 | Then turned up one morning drunk as a lord . |
| 14 | As Eva had known , the location of the flat would always be a draw for Charlie , and when he turned up one evening to eat and sleep I said , ‘ Let's go to the Nashville . ’ |
| 15 | I knew that I had n't been kidding myself when he turned up one evening looking exhausted , miserable and defeated , to tell me his wife had threatened to start divorce proceedings . |
| 16 | As Sir Henry related about his caddie , ‘ He never turned up that day at all . |
| 17 | Hannah also recalls this meeting , which was to have a most satisfying outcome She was surprised to learn that her meadows contained so much of ecological value and was somewhat confused at first when Mike Prosser turned up that day . |
| 18 | A hunt through larder and freezer turned up frozen chicken Kiev . |
| 19 | Sharing between us our repertoire , we turned up two comedy songs , But I could n't and Just in the old sweet way . |
| 20 | After leaving Fintastic , a visit to a local DIY store turned up some floor protectors for the aquarium stand to rest on , protecting the polished wood flooring . |
| 21 | In fact we turned up some gas shares on the way , but er and a bit of cash , but that was n't enough to pay the funeral accounts and she made no provision for paying any of the bills so I sold the gas shares towards paying the funeral account and then got shouted at by the er beneficiary children because I had n't consulted them about selling the gas shares and I said Well , they have to be sold because there 's bills to pay and there is no way of dealing with that . |
| 22 | A quick flip through my cookery books turned up some Italian and Middle Eastern dishes that bore a passing resemblance to what had happened on Rebecca 's plate . |
| 23 | ‘ After our night together , when Peter turned up next day , you were so savage , as if you really did believe all those terrible things you were saying about me — I do n't understand why you changed so suddenly — ’ |
| 24 | Flavia stuck to her guns and when she turned up next morning was told by the Loulou boys that she did n't know one wind from the other . |
| 25 | He 's been sleeping in the spare room , you see , but when you turned up last night , he moved back in . |
| 26 | so it 's erm the times have all changed now because of going somewhere different , but of course you 've got ta go out tonight , we 've got to , in fact we 've got to go out within the hour , it 's Steve 's mum 's birthday erm so tomorrow you know you ca n't get think and my brother turned up last night so you just ca n't , I have n't even packed his case yet . |
| 27 | Sun Microsystems Inc turned up last week with record revenues of $1.05bn for its second quarter ended December 31 , up 15.5% — however net profits were off 27.7% at $34.3m . |
| 28 | ‘ It was this friend of yours who turned up this afternoon . |
| 29 | The car they used , stolen in Devon , turned up this morning in Gloucester . |
| 30 | apparently turned up this morning and they want a hundred pound by tomorrow , and they 're coming back tomorrow for it paying him ten pound a week and thought it was gone and he had er none so find a hundred pound by tomorrow and she did n't know where she was going to get it from , she just stood there and burst into tears and run off going on |