Example sentences of "turn [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Lakatos 's reply to Kuhn , all turns finally on a distinction between progressive and degenerating research programmes . |
| 2 | A lane branches south-west from the top end of the buildings and at a right-angled corner turns away as a footpath to Clapham . |
| 3 | This output is in turn fed to a monostable made up from NAND gates IC4c , IC4d which is turned on for a period of a few milliseconds determined by the values of resistor R17 and capacitor C4 . |
| 4 | Eight minutes later it was 2–0 when Des Aitcheson , scoring from close range after Neil Fullerton 's near post flick , had been brilliantly turned on to a post by the visiting goalkeeper . |
| 5 | Highlights include ‘ Allergy plight of nice-girl Nicky — ‘ one sip of vodka turns me into a sex maniac ’ ’ ( News of the World magazine ) and ‘ Women could be turned on by a chunk of cheddar ’ ( People ) . |
| 6 | After that , it too was turned in for a Qualcast with loppy handles and collapsible wheels . |
| 7 | But by nineteen ninety one , that had turned in to a deficit of a hundred million and one prediction suggests the deficit would have widened dramatically to six hundred and forty million pounds by the end of the decade . |
| 8 | Karelius , about to agree , suddenly turned away in a fit of coughing . |
| 9 | While the threat of wholesale destruction failed to materialize , the cathedrals were turned over to a variety of secular uses . |
| 10 | There are indications that the mill was turned over for a time for saw milling , and possibly even cider production . |
| 11 | The sense of his living in a closed world , stylistically speaking , is beautifully conveyed when Falstaff , frustrated in his attempts to get a simple answer to a simple question , wanting to know his ‘ happy news ’ , is forced to move up to Pistol 's manner : — an effect not unlike that if W. C. Fields had turned up in a performance of Mourning Becomes Electra ! |
| 12 | They have nothing to do with the length of the notes ; that 's a fallacy , and let anyone who teaches this in an academy be turned out as a misleader of the people ! |
| 13 | Bruno is turned out in a set of white-sequined boxing trunks with blue stripes and a matching set of Masters of the Universe shoulder pads , his incredibly muscled midriff exposed between . |
| 14 | After a couple of miles he turned right into a network of lanes . |
| 15 | you can either turn left and follow the road for 100yds turning right onto a path above a stream . |
| 16 | Relaxed and complacent , we headed our way out of the pub and down to a dip — then straight up a ferocious bank turning right at a junction in the road , signposted to Dale End . |
| 17 | ‘ He is an old woman , ’ she replied , and half turned away with a swish of her sea-green silk dress . |
| 18 | Also , if we turn away uncritically from a voice-we hate or fear , then we are turning away from a source of conflict — and conflict is one of the writer 's richest foods . |
| 19 | Now it 's a downturn , the cinema is turning more towards a medium in which thought can be fostered . ’ |
| 20 | AT THE first bend in the narrow lane from Guestwick to Corpusty there are the vestiges of an old carriageway turning off into a field in a south-westerly direction . |
| 21 | A number of unused tickets , from not only the BCR have been turning up with a date in the year 1933 . |
| 22 | Will home helps start turning up with a set of clubs ? |
| 23 | One day he excelled himself , turning up with a piece of furniture the size of a large sideboard which housed the coveted television set along with a radiogram and a place to keep your records . |
| 24 | I was quite surprised , er during the summer I went to my grandson 's school fete and they had a hot air balloon demonstration there and this er , this car turned up with a trailer on the back with , I du n no , probably some name , hot air balloon name on the trailer , I thought oh yes he 's gon na show us how to inflate it and i I was quite amazed from the time he unpacked the balloon to the time it actually took off was only ten minutes . |
| 25 | Vera turned up for a cup of coffee dinner time and ended up staying there rest of the afternoon dinner with us , oh no come on in , give us it , where you sitting , off she went |
| 26 | FIREMEN and police turned up at a house in Bracknell , Herts , with sirens blaring after Nibbles the hamster became trapped under the bath . |
| 27 | STUNNED staff turned up at a garage in Chicklade , Wilts , to find thieves had used a chainsaw to cut off and steal a petrol pump . |
| 28 | His look deepened and the corners of his well-defined mouth turned up in a half-smile of mystery . |
| 29 | 5 paintings by mass murderer Dennis Nilson , painted in a cell at Parkhurst jail , turned up in a shop at Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire . |
| 30 | Thus , when Hitler landed at Danzig 's Saspe airfield on a whistle-stop tour of the east for his 1932 election campaign , the entire Danzig SA , along with a uniformed company of the local police force , turned out as a guard of honour . |