Example sentences of "[noun] turned [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first we thought that the foragers might simply be suffering from some sort of apian hydrophobia , but when we increased the distance of the feeding station so that the dances indicated the far side of the lake , recruits turned up in great numbers . |
| 2 | At the election , the women of the borough turned up in large numbers shouting " No Sow and Pigs " . |
| 3 | The paramedics turned up within ten minutes and as they turned up I passed out , so they applied the defibrillator to my chest and the next thing I knew from one minute to sitting talking to them I knew I was on the ground and they 'd brought me round . |
| 4 | The fact that almost nobody had heard of this prerogative turned out to one of the judges to be a point in its favour : |
| 5 | Clements turned up at 3.55 . |
| 6 | After the engine turned up at Three Bridges a BR spokesman — skilled at blaming delays on ‘ leaves on the line ’ — explained that lost trains did ‘ occasionally occur ’ . |
| 7 | They were doing a sort of Nordic cha cha cha with Dutch doll movements , hands and feet turned out at right angles and clockwork jerks of the head . |
| 8 | The result was so spectacular that those of us in the front line who were showered with debris turned up at future games wearing motorbike goggles to protect our eyes and in honour of our hero . |
| 9 | All the temples were totally demolished during the Roman period , probably by Christian iconoclasts , and the sites turned over to industrial use . |
| 10 | In the 1820s the Swan turned up in another museum , run by a perfumier , Thomas Weeks of London . |
| 11 | As Lisa popped a breast of chicken into the microwave she glanced at the brightly coloured childish drawings secured by fruit-shaped magnets to the fridge door and her heart turned over with maternal pride . |
| 12 | If they are then housed for the winter the immunity acquired by the end of the grazing season has waned by the following spring and yearlings turned out at that time are partially susceptible to reinfection and so contaminate the pasture with small numbers of eggs . |
| 13 | Normally , unless you have one of these keys , you would have to call the water company 's engineers if you wanted the mains turned off for any reason — perhaps to work on the mains stopcock inside the house . |
| 14 | Anyway , at the party , there was the aristocracy of the land and quite a lot of celebrities and of course , David and his group turned up in scruffy jeans . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Terence turned up at ten to ten with two friends nobody knew , although the threesome set Karen off , reminding her , she giggled , of the tormentors of Fantastic Mister Fox , one fat , one short , one lean . |
| 17 | More than three-quarters of those on the electoral register turned out on each occasion to cast their vote and , of those who did so , more than 90% voted usually for either the Conservative or Labour candidate . |
| 18 | By good fortune , the crew turned up at that moment . |
| 19 | Baines turned out for seven League clubs , chiefly Huddersfield , Bradford City , Walsall , Scunthorpe and Chesterfield . |
| 20 | A television turned off by remote control continues to use a quarter of normal power because it needs to be electrically awake to receive the next remote signal to switch back on . |
| 21 | In the first two months 90 per cent of short distance trains turned up after five minutes and 96 per cent of long distance trains turned up after ten minutes . |
| 22 | In the first two months 90 per cent of short distance trains turned up after five minutes and 96 per cent of long distance trains turned up after ten minutes . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | A MAN turned up for Old Bailey jury service yesterday — and found he was due to try his 20-year-old son for burglary . |
| 25 | The army turned back in drenched and miserable retreat towards Welshpool , without having so much as sighted a Welsh force of any kind . |
| 26 | ‘ This list of rare plants in Durham turned up in various correspondences , but it was always assumed that it was Stephen Robson 's list , ’ says Alec . |
| 27 | These cells are classified into about 210 ( according to taste ) different kinds , all built by the same set of genes but with different members of the set of genes turned on in different kinds of cells . |
| 28 | But how often are modules turned down in this way ? |
| 29 | When the rest of the crowd turned out at closing time and headed for the Floral Gardens with their carry-outs , Tich bedded down for the night in the public lavatory on the other side of the railway bridge . |
| 30 | Two small white beds , the sheets turned down over quilted satin eiderdowns . |