Example sentences of "turned [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The room seemed to have gone dark , as if someone had turned off the lights , and she wondered if she might be going to faint . |
| 2 | It is unique in that juniors come first , are welcomed at all times in and out of the club house , on and off of the courts and will never be turned off the courts by seniors . |
| 3 | She endured the renewed pain stoically until the water ran clear , then turned off the taps and clambered from the bath , feeling very shaky , but wonderfully , blissfully clean . |
| 4 | The odds had turned towards the Giants on Sunday after a 6-4 win at Candlestick Park . |
| 5 | When it was over , the owners turned towards the stands , talking animatedly about the result , and I contrived to be where Nell would see me , with any luck , making a small waving motion with my race-card . |
| 6 | The fundamental stress on proper moral order as the basis of a healthy society could be dangerously two-edged ; it could plausibly be turned against the reformers by the assertion that abolition and emancipation would cut off the civilising influence of Europeans on Africans and result in social and political upheaval in the colonies . |
| 7 | Powerful stadium-style lights were turned onto the buildings where 105 followers of cult leader David Koresh have been barricaded since a shootout with men of the Bureau of Alcohol , Tobacco and Firearms on 28 February in which four federal agents were killed . |
| 8 | As Ron Morris acknowledges , the basic premise behind the aims of Roseberry and SkillBuilding is hardly revolutionary , but it remains an idea rarely turned into the bricks and mortar of practical success . |
| 9 | In simple terms health authorities have been turned into the buyers of health care , and , rather than the providers of health care . |
| 10 | They were forbidden by law to return to within thirty kilometres of their estates , and their houses were turned into the offices of state farms , rest homes for party bosses or factory workers , schools , mad-houses , orphanages or just left to crumble . |
| 11 | A bakery had become a betting shop and a draper 's had turned into the offices of a building society . |
| 12 | The side of Edward Crumwallis that was most evident during such tête-à-têtes was the petty-minded , niggling side ( that side of his psychological profile that was seldom turned in the parents ' direction ) . |
| 13 | Although the Mob does n't move , individual models may be turned in the ranks in order to shoot at their target . |
| 14 | Laying his blooded axe beside her twisted form , Bash once more turned to the letters … |
| 15 | On these surfaces of glacial deposits , wind blown sand , peat and exposed bedrock successive waves of settlement have cleared , burned , grazed and cultivated , while others have turned to the seas for sustenance . |
| 16 | IN A country where government has not always been a friend , it is little wonder that society has sometimes turned to the authorities of the underworld . |
| 17 | The conversation then turned to the legends of King Arthur and Thomas discussed the epic poem he was writing , ‘ Sir Tristram ’ , asking Corbett to tell him all he knew about Wales . |
| 18 | As the afternoon temperature rose our thoughts turned to the beaches . |
| 19 | With control over Korea and Taiwan secure , Japan 's eyes turned to the territories of Northeast China and Manchuria , and Japan 's search for the acquisition of control over greater portions of Asian territory governed the development of Asian Japanese relations during the four decades up to 1945 . |
| 20 | He has turned on the lights , the heat and the television . |
| 21 | So American railway companies turned on the stations which had impaired their financial health and destroyed many of them in an excess of architectural vandalism . |
| 22 | With the Government facing a fresh possibility of defeat over the controversial social chapter , tensions erupted as loyal heavyweights turned on the rebels during a heated half-hour clash . |
| 23 | The villagers turned at the riders ' approach . |
| 24 | Thus , while the state attempted to monopolize such discussion as took place — for example when the ‘ neutral ’ forum for discussion at the VEC seminar was turned by the authorities into a reassurance session — this was resisted locally by successful intervention and contestation at the VEC seminar both by an outside speaker and by DUC activists , and by forcing the issue back on the table for discussion at the local authority level . |
| 25 | The mill was originally powered by an overshot water wheel , turned by the waters of the Blackpool Brook ( as was Lower Mill ) ; it stopped working around 1898–99 . |