Example sentences of "[adv] turn [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right turns from Bondgate into Skinnergate will be banned completely . |
| 2 | Right turns from Bondgate into Skinnergate are banned completely . |
| 3 | But Joseph does n't really understand that , and the changes he sees are bizarre and a little frightening — the furniture slowly turns into animals , objects are no longer what they seem . |
| 4 | In this environment , the true scientist 's heart naturally turns to thoughts of revenge . |
| 5 | Since it is a non-democracy , dislike of the incumbent swiftly turns into rejection of the state itself . |
| 6 | Neglect yourself and self-doubt begins to creep in and that swiftly turns to depression . |
| 7 | In a niche above was a depiction of God the Father toward which Christ below turns with angels on either side . |
| 8 | As she heard her front door click , Rachel 's anger suddenly turned to dismay and as she turned to the window she found she could only see the outline of the cathedral through a mist of tears . |
| 9 | Then on the way back he had suddenly turned to Maggie and said , |
| 10 | Ideally an entry which is at present only a cross-reference might be better made into a full entry , while the existing entries might be better turned into cross-references , and so on . |
| 11 | ‘ Here we are and we 've had our experiment ; there 's been one party , one dominant idea , one fully followed plan , one strong leader — and her grey shadow — and it 's all turned to shit and ashes . |
| 12 | There was this girl in a bath of asses milk , yuk ! and it had all turned to cheese , so they put her on the table with a dish of figs for afters . |
| 13 | And Hilderbridge lay in the sunshine , its slate roofs all turned to planes of silver , its spires sharp needles , as if a silversmith had made it and dropped it in the valley between the meadows and the moor . |
| 14 | It 's only turned on dad ! |
| 15 | In becoming the first country to shun the Springboks , the Welsh not only turned about face from their decision of five years ago , but also brought the advent of a professional rugby circus in the Republic that bit closer . |
| 16 | Second to reach the new mother " when her baby began to walk and her thoughts naturally turned to shoes . |
| 17 | Another effect of ACE was to take jobs from others in full-time employment because , for the above reasons , employers naturally turned to ACE if they could get away with it . |
| 18 | For a moment Sarah fell silent , then she suddenly turned to Ruth . |
| 19 | The superintendent gazed at the blank TV screen before suddenly turning to Franks , her eyes drained of laughter . |
| 20 | There are only 100 places available so turn to page 216 and fill in the coupon right away to book your place . |
| 21 | The public naturally turn to books of fiction , or televised versions of them , rather than to serious books . |
| 22 | Further , the centres only turn in place and are never permuted . |
| 23 | The basis of my notation is the observation that the centre pieces are not permuted — they only turn in place . |
| 24 | Such scenes of domestic bliss would only turn to torments and she forced him to be a spectre at the back of her mind . |
| 25 | — who had secretly turned into Mrs Greene . |
| 26 | Beyond it lay the Victorian Gothic church and some large houses of the same period , now mostly turned into flats . |
| 27 | The Caesars eventually turned to Christianity and became Popes . |
| 28 | During the preceding years the hairpin had perforated the inner end of the vagina and eventually turned through 180° . |
| 29 | The collapse of tin prices in the 1980s destroyed the tin-mining industry , many of whose former employees have since turned in desperation to growing coca . |
| 30 | With the mujaheddin at the gates , it was believed , the town 's defences would crumble as the Afghans within turned on supporters of the Najibullah regime . |