Example sentences of "turned [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All were approached , and all turned down the privilege of printing Britain 's first underground magazine . |
| 2 | Wycliffe turned down the alley towards the Incident Room . |
| 3 | He turned down the alley which led to the Incident Room . |
| 4 | I am employing the kind of argument that has been used to resist demands that God prove Himself by miraculous interventions of some form — demands that in Christian tradition Christ himself refused to satisfy when he turned down the Pharisees ' request for a ‘ sign ’ and asked that they have faith instead . |
| 5 | The FA turned down the request and repeated its demand to see the Leeds City books . |
| 6 | He turned down the blankets and Willie climbed in between the sheets . |
| 7 | He turned down the lamp and wondered how he was going to get in without wakening her ; when suddenly she started up , crying out with despair , fighting to be free of the blankets . |
| 8 | He turned down the cover and peeped at the baby 's heads . |
| 9 | She turned down the gas and hurried to intercept the intruder . |
| 10 | He pushed her gently away from the stove and took the pan away , turned down the gas , opened the window . |
| 11 | ‘ Enjoyed our first day serving King and country , ‘ ave we ? ’ asked the duty corporal of his charges , when at twenty-one hundred hours he turned down the gas lights in the barrack room . |
| 12 | It was this example that the AfDB had in mind when , in 1990 , it turned down the Cameroon road project . |
| 13 | But the bank was getting jittery and turned down the firm 's proposal to turn £1m of the debt into a long-term loan repayable over 15 years . |
| 14 | Having made their name as the most mischievous men in pop , their audience watched uneasily as Madness turned down the corners of their mouths . |
| 15 | Mr Bumble shook his head again , very seriously , and turned down the corners of his mouth . |
| 16 | He twice turned down the chance to become Secretary General of Nato , and the ideas on defence and deterrence outlined here compare favourably with much of the output of the Beltway Bandits and their fellow theorists in Paris or Moscow , save only that they are more readably expressed . |
| 17 | Willie has caddied in the US , unlike some of his contemporaries , carrying for Ray Floyd , Sam Snead , Gary Player and Gay Brewer among others , but turned down the chance of working for Trevino at El Paso and taking his bag on the US Tour . |
| 18 | Scholar also suggested Venables turned down the chance to sign Mark Hughes when he was released by Barcelona , having been on loan to Bayern Munich . |
| 19 | ‘ I suppose you also turned down the chance to be his girlfriend ? ’ |
| 20 | Wickes Developments wants to set up a 31,000 square foot superstore at Lustrum Avenue , Portrack , but the council turned down the plan saying it would take trade away from the town centre , and create traffic problems . |
| 21 | It was not clear if Mrs Shephard herself turned down the requests . |
| 22 | Whether , at the tender age of nineteen , he will be able to withstand the gruelling concert tour he has won remains to be seen ; Radu Lupu , who won the competition in 1966 , accepted the trophy but turned down the year of free promotion and international débuts . |
| 23 | ‘ He turned down the part I offered him then — which was the best thing he ever did . |
| 24 | I was as surprised as anyone when the referee turned down the goal . |
| 25 | Early in his career he turned down the title role in David Lean 's Lawrence of Arabia ( eventually played by Peter O'Toole ) after producer Sam Speigel insisted he sign a long-term picture deal . |
| 26 | The Chinese echoed Western views that the USSR had ‘ in effect turned down the proposal of some Western countries for the neutralisation of Afghanistan ’ . |
| 27 | The British Cabinet committee , meeting on 14 November , turned down the US idea , proposing instead a 50–50 division of frequency of traffic on the North Atlantic ; but the following day it decided that the fifth freedom should be accepted , subject to safeguards . |
| 28 | Sheriff Principal Ronald Ireland turned down the parents ' appeal that Thursday morning . |
| 29 | When tenants were finally given a vote , they all turned down the idea . |
| 30 | ‘ He has suggested , though , that the two practices should merge , and seemed amazed when I turned down the idea . |