Example sentences of "turned [adv prt] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An anti-homosexual initiative was passed in Colorado but turned down in Oregon ; California rejected proposals to give the Governor greater control over the budget and to allow doctor-assisted suicide for the terminally ill ; an equal rights amendment to give women statutory equal rights with men was rejected in Iowa ; environmental proposals on mandatory recyclable packaging and an excise tax on hazardous substances manufactured in the state were defeated in Massachusetts ; and Arizona voted to observe a state holiday in memory of the Rev. Martin Luther King , the 50th state to do so , and decided to switch its method of execution from gas chamber to lethal injection . |
| 2 | Test captain turned sportscaster Jerry Coney smiled that Woodward acknowledged only one mistake , a caught-behind appeal turned down in Napier in 1979 against Pakistan , which Coney said would have lifted his career tally of Test wickets from 27 to 28 . |
| 3 | Finn saw her distress and his own loose mouth turned down in sympathy , like the moon on its back . |
| 4 | Every time Dyson looked at himself in the kitchen mirror , trying to imagine it was a television screen , his stomach and Jannie 's stomach turned over in unison . |
| 5 | As I turned over in bed everything was suddenly very wet and I felt a ripple of shock as I realised what had happened . |
| 6 | Alice sighed , turned over in bed like an old seal , and plumped up her pillow . |
| 7 | Marjorie turned over in bed with a deep , sobbing sigh , and he felt vaguely and wearily sorry for whatever unhappiness she was feeling in her sleep . |
| 8 | Then quite suddenly he disappeared and turned up in Moscow at a news conference , claiming that he had been kidnapped by MI5 in Italy , drugged , and taken to Britain and held in captivity until he managed to escape . |
| 9 | ‘ Kitty disappeared off the face of the earth and then without warning turned up in Whitechapel with a man in a motor car ; neither of them seemed to be hers but she looked very pleased with life . ’ |
| 10 | Somewhere in all the moves the body contriving to lose its boots which then turned up in Steve 's bag at school . |
| 11 | Large flakes , too : in mid-May an experienced miner turned up in Sam 's Jewellers in Sacramento with half a dozen three- and four-ounce nuggets fished from the American River . |
| 12 | When Dorning Town turned up in December they found no one here . |
| 13 | The hush-hush builder 's blueprint , which gave details of an undercover police station being built in the Palace grounds , later turned up in Kilburn , North London — a stronghold of IRA sympathisers . |
| 14 | This year it was Canon Barry 's turn to preach and despite the snow a huge Congregation turned up in Corpus Christi Church . |
| 15 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 16 | Some could be seen in lay-bys , others turned up in Shropshire and Wales . |
| 17 | I did n't know the surname of the people who 'd taken you , only your first name , Robbie , and so when you turned up in school I thought nothing of it . |
| 18 | Steele escaped only weeks ago from Edinburgh prison and turned up in London where he glued himself to the railings at Buckingham Palace to protest his innocence before being re-arrested. escape , Steele telephoned the Daily Record newspaper . |
| 19 | His career had an extraordinary culmination when he eventually turned up in Scotland and was appointed Royal Printer to James VI , afterwards James I of England . |
| 20 | Most people here would be very worried if information about them turned up in Greece , or in other European Community countries , based upon suspicion . |
| 21 | Despite the size of Dublin 's allocation some fans will be disappointed , especially when you consider that 59,000 turned up in Croke Park for the Dublin and Donegal Royal Liver League final replay . |
| 22 | A West German ship with a cargo of uranium concentrate bound from Antwerp to Genoa disappeared and its cargo later turned up in Israel . |
| 23 | Nothing happened until yesterday , when an unidentified body turned up in Paris . |
| 24 | ‘ It was a Christmas Ball and every one turned up in jackets and bow ties . |
| 25 | But , whatever her doubts , she had to admit that the dress did look good , and it was n't too formal if her escort turned up in jeans . |
| 26 | Computer analyst Margaret Gibson , 22 , was among dozens who turned up in Glasgow for free , confidential advice on cellulite and weight from our panel of doctors , dietitians , exercise counsellors and beauty experts . |
| 27 | However , come 10.30am the advisers turned up in force , 45 of them including the Committee 's own Stella Whitbourn advising on social work . |
| 28 | The protestors turned up in force to confront the man , but he 'd already been and gone . |
| 29 | In 1975 , the year after the fall of Haile Selassie , and four years before the fall of the Shah , the witness of revolutions turned up in Angola for the abandonment of their colony by the Portuguese : the subject of the third of these books of his . |
| 30 | Ronald Richter , aged 42 , was a little-known Austrian-born physicist , one of many German-speaking scientists and technicians who turned up in Argentina in the late 1940s . |