Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] turn [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This lamplit cave , where Jan turns back and farts , |
| 2 | But almost every year one or more of these Siberian thrushes or warblers turn up to add a bit of icing to the bird-watching cake ! |
| 3 | After all , when our western doctor 's diagnosis or treatment turns out to be ineffective we may regard him as a useless quack , but we do not also conclude that the entire system of medical science is erroneous . |
| 4 | The fact that Christopher turned out to be an east European too hardly caused a ripple in Jane . |
| 5 | As it was , I believe my judgement proved quite sound on the question of timing ; the fact that things turned out as they did is entirely attributable to an error of judgement in another direction altogether . |
| 6 | we had the ch young children then so that erm all in all I am not sorry that things turned out as they did because erm as luck would have it , you know , |
| 7 | Well , that Arthur turned up at last and the vicar married them , but afterwards me sister let Arthur know just 'ow she felt , she chucked the whole weddin' cake at 'im , then 'er bokey an' then a full bottle of port . |
| 8 | Members of such groups are usually very friendly and so grateful that people turn up to their performances that they are quite often there to smile and chat to visitors at the door . |
| 9 | Later confiding that she was surprised that Kiefer turned up at all that day , the same press officer admits she was doubtful about the interview from the off . |
| 10 | ‘ We just started a band going and put up a notice looking for a female singer so Dolores turned up . ’ |
| 11 | It was the next day that Lewis turned up at the door of the workshop his tools in a bag and his leather apron over his arm . |
| 12 | It just so happened that Mandy turned up at the afternoon surgery . |
| 13 | In some ways , it is quite remarkable that Andrew turned out as well as he did . ’ |
| 14 | Similarly , although Rank turned down Sydney Box 's first independent feature , 29 Acacia Avenue ( 1945 ) , on the grounds that the innocuous story about an aborted premarital romp was ‘ immoral ’ , and offered him £40,000 to put the film on the shelf , he was later to give Box the job of running Gainsborough 's production programme . |
| 15 | This sounded better , so Alice turned back . |
| 16 | Claims that cells turn over quicker , ‘ like younger skin ’ , do not make dermatologists enthusiastic . |
| 17 | A hunt through larder and freezer turned up frozen chicken Kiev . |
| 18 | Oh , Anne was telling me she said er she went out last night and mum turned round and said to her now do n't you be late home cos it 's cold out there . |
| 19 | Profits were divided amongst those who had helped out , and payment turned out to be at a substantially smaller rate . |
| 20 | Up to March last year 11,676 were invited for screening and 74pc turned up . |
| 21 | But only Motherwell have shown interest and Hauser turned down the Premier League side after failing to agree personal terms . |
| 22 | And Cardiff turned back to look . |
| 23 | The knumdrum where the people have gone has now been answered because the amount of domiciliary care needed to keep them out of residential places to meet their needs and wishes turns out to be very much less than we expected , on average less than seven hours a week . |
| 24 | Improvements and refinements of processes and products turn up but no radically new concepts . |
| 25 | You 'll be fine by the time Jim and Ellis turn up and you 'll have a nice evening poring over clues . |
| 26 | On close inspection , several of the demonstrations of a dissociation between latent inhibition and habituation turn out to be of less theoretical significance than they first seemed . |
| 27 | When she and Dot turned up to visit , he just was n't there any more . |
| 28 | Former test pilots , engineers and craftsmen turned up to watch a fly past by two of the jets . |
| 29 | Certainly the Catholic Church had a vested interest in Aristotelian philosophy , but much of the conflict ostensibly between science and religion turns out to have been between new science and the sanctified science of the previous generation . |
| 30 | On Chicago 's south side the day the monthly cheque arrives is nicknamed ‘ mother 's day ’ , because that is when absent sons and husbands turn up . |