Example sentences of "turn [pron] [noun sg] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The farm stands on a spur of moorland on the northern edge of the forest , and within 10 minutes I had turned my back on the corduroy battalions of trees and was striding under a still , cloudy sky over tussocks of rush and coarse grass , with my face to the long , bare shoulders of open hillside that flank the winding shallows of the East Kielder Burn . |
| 2 | Many of them have had their terms and conditions reduced , some have been dismissed and they now have no one to turn to as they have turned their back on the Trade Union which is their only guarantee of protection ’ . |
| 3 | She had turned her back on the lot of them , and married Frederick Bissett , from a terraced house in Leeds , bright boy of the street . |
| 4 | For Camus , Oran , the city of La Peste , ‘ capital of boredom besieged by innocence and beauty ’ , was the mirror image of Algiers : ‘ a city of dust and stone ’ that had ‘ turned its back on the sea ’ . |
| 5 | It has turned its back on the elitism of many consumer organisations and has based itself on a democratic structure in which the voluntary efforts of the members determine policy and action . |
| 6 | On the other hand , we tend not to see the intense depression in a motionless and unresponsive horse , or the annoyance in one that has turned its back on the horse or person offending it , or the anxiety in the tightened abdominal muscles of the showpony expecting the pain of the spur . |
| 7 | The second point , briefly , is that the white paper has turned its face on the establishment of an environmental protection agency , and independent environment protection agency , and erm , you may feel strongly , I know there was another report that came out just about that time that erm was advocating it , and you may feel that what is needed is a central , independent environmental protection agency . |
| 8 | She was pointing at Sheridan Lorrimore , who had turned his back on the scene . |
| 9 | Morrissey is needed , not as an ombudsman , or a figure of the eighties , but as a horrified figure against the eighties , who has turned his back on the march of pop time as the last keeper of the sanctuary of self-pity , apartness , exile ’ ( David Stubbs ) . |
| 10 | It was a time for thanking God that Matthew had turned his back on the badness that might have dragged him down . |
| 11 | It swung open at his touch but closing it , as always , was more difficult and he lugged and half lifted it into place and slipped the circle of wire over the gatepost with a familiar sensation of having turned his back on the workaday world and entered country which , no matter how frequent his visits , would always be alien territory . |
| 12 | I turned my back on the lochan and walked a dozen paces away from the edge before heading back towards the road . |
| 13 | When I came round I felt much better and I turned my back on the lake and went home . |
| 14 | At the same time , she felt a sense of guilt , of disloyalty , that she could even for an instant contemplate the idea of deserting her mother and turning her back on the place she called home . |
| 15 | Turning her back on the sunset , she crossed the yard to where a track , wide enough to take a vehicle , led down to the river . |
| 16 | With every thrust she gasped his name like an incantation , sensing his pleasure as the syllable burst from her love-swollen mouth , turning her head on the softness of the pillow spread with the sable blackness of her hair . |
| 17 | The French skirmishers turned their force on the Prince 's staff . |
| 18 | Pride in her soared up then and she turned her back on the phone . |
| 19 | Shaking , she turned her back on the sea , stared hectically into her darkened bedroom . |
| 20 | Katherine turned her back on the window — and immediately forgot about her children . |
| 21 | Leonora turned her back on the past , bracing herself against the wind as she walked briskly towards the spot where the cliff path began its decent to Seal Haven . |
| 22 | Then , gathering herself together , she turned her back on the mystery , and started home . |
| 23 | ‘ When she left the Island , she turned her back on the family and we 've never heard from her since . |
| 24 | She turned her back on the street and descended into the underground station . |
| 25 | She turned her back on the light and opened the door on to the smaller staircase . |
| 26 | I eased off her sandals while he turned her head on the pillow and cupped his hand round her mouth . |
| 27 | She turned her head on the pillow and smiled at Emmie . |
| 28 | She turned her head on the pillow , so he could not properly see her face , only the Greuze-like line of her cheek . |
| 29 | She turned her head on the pillow and looked around . |
| 30 | There was a familiarity to it , but — Paige turned her head on the pillow as a band of light , growing wider , spread over the carpet . |