Example sentences of "turned [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Normally , unless you have one of these keys , you would have to call the water company 's engineers if you wanted the mains turned off for any reason — perhaps to work on the mains stopcock inside the house . |
| 2 | Koo Stark turned up for one case wearing a short and flowery little-girl 's party frock with velvet cuffs , which said , ‘ Gee , I am gentle , I am vulnerable in the big bad world . ’ |
| 3 | A MAN turned up for Old Bailey jury service yesterday — and found he was due to try his 20-year-old son for burglary . |
| 4 | So many turned up for this emergency meeting of Swindon 's railway pensioners , that more than a hundred had to stand outside . |
| 5 | For all his undoubted talent Grayson may not have been a budding Ian Rush but he turned out for one of the country 's most famous clubs , perhaps not the best but certainly one of the best known — Accrington Stanley . |
| 6 | So while d'Abreu and his colleagues went off eastwards , even braver or more foolhardy men — following the banner of Castile — were determined to discover — heroically and , as it turned out for many of them , fatally — the way to reach this same Orient by travelling outwards to the West , across the vast unknown . |
| 7 | Baines turned out for seven League clubs , chiefly Huddersfield , Bradford City , Walsall , Scunthorpe and Chesterfield . |
| 8 | When he reached the guardroom he stopped and turned round for one last look at the parade ground . |