Example sentences of "turned [adv prt] in [noun prp] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | Somewhere in all the moves the body contriving to lose its boots which then turned up in Steve 's bag at school . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When Dorning Town turned up in December they found no one here . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This year it was Canon Barry 's turn to preach and despite the snow a huge Congregation turned up in Corpus Christi Church . |
| 10 | Some could be seen in lay-bys , others turned up in Shropshire and Wales . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Most people here would be very worried if information about them turned up in Greece , or in other European Community countries , based upon suspicion . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A West German ship with a cargo of uranium concentrate bound from Antwerp to Genoa disappeared and its cargo later turned up in Israel . |
| 16 | Nothing happened until yesterday , when an unidentified body turned up in Paris . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Despite the rain the queue went on and on and on.Over eight hundred people turned out in Oxford to see the blockbuster everyone 's talking about . |
| 21 | Despite the rain the queue went on and on and on.Over eight hundred people turned out in Oxford to see the blockbuster everyone 's talking about . |
| 22 | the Leeds team turned out in St. Trinian 's uniforms including branch manager , Ian Davies . |
| 23 | For calves going to pasture in early May two treatments , three and six weeks later , after first treatment , are used , whereas calves turned out in April require three treatments at intervals of three weeks . |
| 24 | A host of celebs turned out in London to see Hear My Song , the film about Irish singer Josef Locke , win a top prize . |