Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] turn the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was only when the police asked them to turn the noise down that any of us had any chance of sleep . ’ |
| 2 | yes last week he helped me turn the garage out he took all the rubbish left over from the tip down to the tip . |
| 3 | And she let him turn the key and open the door . |
| 4 | He slid his hands into the sleeves , and lifted it to turn the back to the light , and for a few minutes stood studying it closely . |
| 5 | And the names he called me turned the air blue ! |
| 6 | Ritschl was impressed and urged him to turn the paper into an article for publication . |
| 7 | From the doorway , Pete watched her turn the key on it with a certain relief . |
| 8 | She seems to thrive on heretical statements and swimming against the tide : ‘ I look at what the cosmetic trade is doing and walk in the opposite direction , ’ she declares with the kind of outspoken defiance that has made her a retailing legend in the decade it took her to turn The Body Shop into a worldwide phenomenon . |
| 9 | After Andrew Stavanger 's wife died he turned the house into three flats , and he lives alone in the top flat . |
| 10 | Shit Phil did I turn the fire off ? |
| 11 | Yeah , but did I turn the bars off ? |
| 12 | Did they turn the volume off ? |