Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] turn [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | High-flying Norwich had a £1 million approach for Armstrong turned down last year . |
| 2 | A request was received from a household asking for support to turn down an application for a garage but it was deemed not a function for the Association . |
| 3 | A request was received from a household asking for support to turn down an application for a garage but it was deemed not a function for the Association . |
| 4 | A forty one , there 's temporary traffic lights between Soldern turn off and the Northampshire border , that 's just between Banbury and Bicester , and there are likely to be some delays along the A three six one at Wardington where there are also temporary traffic lights , that 's just north of Banbury on the main Banbury to Daventry Road . |
| 5 | I was called away to the hospital so I left her at the house waiting for Nigel to turn up to collect her . ’ |
| 6 | A greatly-respected professional musician was diagnosed as having a poor bump of tune ; a man accorded a large bump of benevolence turned out to be a well known ( and violent ) criminal . |
| 7 | But as time went on and techniques advanced , they found that peculiar sorts of molecules turned up , rather unusual ones , things that were n't expected — molecules that are very uncommon on the earth and in fact a number of molecules were discovered in interstellar space before they were discovered in the laboratory . |
| 8 | It may of course turn out that there are after all good independent reasons for respecting the intuitive judgements which come from long experience . |
| 9 | It goes without saying that the TD must hold regular surgeries , or in the euphemistic Irish expression " hear confessions " which will of course turn out to be requests for assistance . |
| 10 | The din was intolerable : overlapping dialogue in several languages , dowagers with laughter like painted nails down a blackboard , the endless rattle of the wheels , occasional gunshots , screams of unknown origin , the gravel-under-waves chink of piles of money turning over again and again , the shouts of losers . |
| 11 | After the horse was bedded down it was time for Sirrell to celebrate properly , and most of Nantgaredig turned up to assist : he eventually got to bed at 3 a.m . |
| 12 | For months afterwards copies of forms turned up all over the Manchester office . |
| 13 | Members of both Houses of Parliament turned out to pay tribute to the controversial MP who died in March . |
| 14 | Having been to confession and passed through ‘ the wall of fire ’ , Lewis wrote to Sister Penelope , ‘ the suggestion about an orgy of egoism turns out , like all the Enemy propaganda , to have just a grain of truth in it , but I have no doubt that the proper method of dealing with that is as I intend to do , to continue the practice . |
| 15 | Old men of Flanders turned around , |
| 16 | You will , therefore , have to vary the amount of tape turned under . |
| 17 | The Cheetahs lost 47 to 43 at Bellevue over the weekend , but despite that defeat hundreds of supporters turned up to see world cup er world champion Hans Nielsen in training last night relieved and smiling that their hero was staying in Oxford . |
| 18 | Thousands of supporters turned out to welcome her , chanting ‘ Imelda , Imelda ’ as she drove through the streets . |
| 19 | Hundreds of fans turned out to see a plaque unveiled at Joe 's birthplace , Number One , Market Place in Newent . |
| 20 | My muddled mind smiled vaguely at the idea of Moses turning down such a long-running client . |
| 21 | A host of celebs turned out in London to see Hear My Song , the film about Irish singer Josef Locke , win a top prize . |
| 22 | The fact that Einstein 's general theory of relativity turned out to predict singularities led to a crisis in physics . |
| 23 | A stream of visitors turned up at the camp . |
| 24 | When this and the regeneration/resurrection theme are brought to bear upon the remark about Bazarov and the 1840s , what seemed a difference of degree turns out to be one of a kind . |
| 25 | Fearing the latter ( although all missiles fired as of the end of January turned out to be conventionally armed ) , the population was advised to don gas masks , and to take refuge until the all-clear sounded in sealed rooms which they had been instructed to prepare on the top floor of their homes . |
| 26 | Hundreds of buyers turn up to take their pick of the best of the County breed . |
| 27 | At crossing of tracks turn left and immediately right on track , passing under footbridge and skirting school buildings . |
| 28 | Another common instrumental justification of consent turns not on the benefits of consenting but on the benefit of being able to consent . |
| 29 | If , by then , it is obvious that there is plenty of room to turn back into wind and land , this is the sensible thing to do . |
| 30 | We know that the syntactic rules of SSL turn up in their written Swedish and so by analogy , children who grow up with Signed Swedish should instead be influenced to use the correct word order . |