Example sentences of "turn [pron] [noun sg] on the [noun] " 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 | In the decade since Mr McGuinness professed to have turned his back on the IRA and to have become a Sinn Fein politician , more than 40 witnesses and statements placed him firmly at the scene of violent incidents — and at the heart of the IRA 's decision-making process . |
| 11 | And what makes his analysis so attractive is the fact that he has resolutely turned his back on the temptations to reduce what he has seen to some supposedly more fundamental principle of animal behaviour . |
| 12 | It was a time for thanking God that Matthew had turned his back on the badness that might have dragged him down . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I turned my back on the lochan and walked a dozen paces away from the edge before heading back towards the road . |
| 15 | When I came round I felt much better and I turned my back on the lake and went home . |
| 16 | Outside I turned my back on the stairs and walked on down the passage . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The French skirmishers turned their force on the Prince 's staff . |
| 21 | Pride in her soared up then and she turned her back on the phone . |
| 22 | Shaking , she turned her back on the sea , stared hectically into her darkened bedroom . |
| 23 | Katherine turned her back on the window — and immediately forgot about her children . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | When the order came she reached down to help an older woman to her feet and passed her the well-wrapped bundle , then she turned her back on the men and was swallowed by the mass of female prisoners . |
| 26 | Then , gathering herself together , she turned her back on the mystery , and started home . |
| 27 | ‘ When she left the Island , she turned her back on the family and we 've never heard from her since . |
| 28 | She turned her back on the street and descended into the underground station . |
| 29 | She turned her back on the light and opened the door on to the smaller staircase . |
| 30 | I eased off her sandals while he turned her head on the pillow and cupped his hand round her mouth . |