Example sentences of "[pron] turn [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I turned politely to the young man . |
| 2 | I turned away at once , and pushed back against Stuart . |
| 3 | I turned away from my crew to demonstrate that I would not discuss the Crowninshield charter any further . |
| 4 | I turned away from the scars near Warrendale Knots and dropped down by Middle High Hill to Settle and lunch at the Naked Man where the nicest ladies you could ever wish to meet serve real Yorkshire food , and plenty of it . |
| 5 | I turned away from her . |
| 6 | I turned away from the window and sank down upon the bed . |
| 7 | I turned away from her . |
| 8 | I turned away from looking down at my father and faced into the corner , sighing mightily and whispering ‘ Oh my God , ’ to myself , away from the mouthpiece . |
| 9 | I turned excitedly to Connors . |
| 10 | I said , but just then the wind tore through the yard , clutching icily at my face , snatching my breath away so that I turned involuntarily to one side with an explosive " Aaahh ! " |
| 11 | To avoid the crowded coast road , I turned inland on weekday training runs . |
| 12 | As I turned over in bed everything was suddenly very wet and I felt a ripple of shock as I realised what had happened . |
| 13 | For a while , I turned over in my mind the notion that these timeslips affected me alone . |
| 14 | I turned again to Ellen , pretty freckled Ellen with her high cheekbones and clever green eyes and flaming hair and mocking smile , and I suddenly wondered whether McIllvanney had spoken to her again in the last week . |
| 15 | Then I turned again to Halema . |
| 16 | I turned round for my bag and — |
| 17 | And the amount of help you get the day before your exams -the same morning I turned round to Hilary after all the work she 'd done with me and said , " I 'm going to fail , I 'm not doing it . " |
| 18 | And when I started doing it I knew the hang of it and I turned round to her afterwards and said , " That was easy . " |
| 19 | I turned round in the tent mouth and sat down with my feet outside to take off my boots . |
| 20 | I turned round in my seat to get a good view . |
| 21 | I turned round in my chair . |
| 22 | Yes no I think once I turned round in that way and I would n't |
| 23 | I turned just in time to see the storm-door across the landing shutting gently . |
| 24 | I turned up at his apartment at the appointed hour . |
| 25 | I had a strange sensation when , on an autumnal Friday afternoon , I turned up at Old Admiralty Building , to have a viva voce on my written evidence to the Falklands Inquiry . |
| 26 | When I turned up at the theatre and Terry and I got changed next to each other , I frequently made a point of saying to him , ‘ Well , Terry , has the call come yet ? |
| 27 | I turned up at the Comedy Store here in London one night , petrified , because in those days it was a pretty testing place with a drunk , unruly audience . |
| 28 | Problem was I was playing a British Military Police Chief , and I still had my uniform on when I turned up at this place . |
| 29 | But when I turned up at the hospital they put me on call and I was called to Casualty to anaesthetise a man . |
| 30 | It was just by chance that I turned up at one of the early meetings of the first lesbian liberation groups in London and found myself involved in the early debates around socialist feminism , radical lesbianism , the Women 's Movement and the sixth demand which named women 's right to a self-defined sexuality . |