Example sentences of "turned [adv] at the " in BNC.

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1 He turned right at the foot of Hawthornden Road instead of left .
2 It turned right at the next street .
3 The accident happened when the van turned right at the Great Stainton crossroads towards Newton Aycliffe and was hit by a car driven by Paul Scott , 40 , of St Edmund 's Green , Sedgefield .
4 I think their suggestion was that they had to go via Norwood Gardens because they then turned right at the in and went up into the middle of and it was to get them on to that line that they had to go through .
5 Here we see the usual linen winding-sheet , parted to show not only the face but the entire body , with the arms placed at his side and turned in at the elbows so that the hands meet over the groin .
6 From the basic shape it can be deduced that the arms were placed alongside the body , turned in at the elbows , with the hands on the groin .
7 They turned in at the yard of a two-storey stone house which had a red tiled roof .
8 It turned in at the gate and came chuntering up the track to pull up beside them .
9 Two riders turned in at the approach to the castle , the rest of the cavalcade swept onward through the gate , flung open to give them passage , and vanished in a flurry of spume and fine mud along the foregate .
10 ‘ I am happy to have afforded you amusement , ma'am , ’ he said ironically , and turned in at the gates of the Lodge .
11 Erm , although I think we will say that that would be dangerous thing to do and that we should continue to work upon the er the assumption that there erm er overall as a n , a nine percent increase , but , that seems highly unlikely that will succeed , erm What I 've then done is take account of the various staffing changes that there have been during the year , both short term and long term , erm , and you 'll see that produces a figure actually available to us this year of twenty seven thousand five hundred and eighty eight investigative hours , erm which is slightly less than we had last year , er but erm almost not significantly so , erm and it seemed to me therefore that if we were n't trying to reduce times , er , if we were saying that we would turn in times at the end of this year which were the same as the term times we turned in at the end of last year we could probably achieve that without any further recruitment .
12 ‘ He was going to hit you , ’ she said , and her mouth turned down at the corners .
13 The marquis 's lips turned down at the corners .
14 ‘ We got rid of an old woman and replaced him with a younger one , ’ Fergus said , mouth turned down at the corners , staring over his whisky tumbler and across the room to where his wife was talking to Antonia .
15 She turned quickly at the sound of my footsteps on the gravel .
16 He turned up at the dance studio in a pair of very skimpy tight shorts and observing that everyone else was very white and wore towelling track suits , and seeing that he was very tall and very naked , got nervous so went for a walk and smoked a joint .
17 About 30 journalists turned up at the Thai border village of Pong Nam Ron , about 200 miles east of Bangkok , yesterday morning , but were told by the local Thai military commander that he knew of no Vietnamese prisoners .
18 He wore a tight khaki shirt , buttoned at the neck , and threadbare army denims turned up at the bottom .
19 Then on Wednesday , hearses from two funeral companies turned up at the morgue to claim the body .
20 She turned up at the Café Dôme one night , her beautiful dress torn to shreds .
21 Women with stiff-brimmed panama hats turned up at the side and pinned with giant rosettes .
22 Their talent for self-promotion ensured that many people turned up at the Ritz to witness the intriguing spectacle of The Smiths falling on their collective backsides .
23 Everyone turned up at the 42nd Street Theatre that night to see Noreen make her New York debut .
24 James turned up at the docks expecting a luxury liner , only to find a cargo ship and a deck-hand 's job waiting for him .
25 My brother , now himself in the RAF , turned up at the door of the Met Office one morning , announcing that he had been posted to Bourn .
26 That afternoon two more carcasses turned up at the northern end of Butterwick Low , and another two were reported from the Norfolk coast , close to Cromer .
27 A stream of visitors turned up at the camp .
28 Thank God , I thought , as just then Dad turned up at the party .
29 When I turned up at the theatre and Terry and I got changed next to each other , I frequently made a point of saying to him , ‘ Well , Terry , has the call come yet ?
30 He had a pale face , deep blue eyes , hair darker and straighter than hers , and a mouth which curved and turned up at the corners in an almost feminine way .
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