Example sentences of "[noun] turned [adv prt] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finn saw her distress and his own loose mouth turned down in sympathy , like the moon on its back . |
| 2 | Last week , the ARC turned out in force at the National Agricultural Centre near Coventry to show farmers its work , and to persuade them to ‘ get more out of muck ; ’ . |
| 3 | For calves going to pasture in early May two treatments , three and six weeks later , after first treatment , are used , whereas calves turned out in April require three treatments at intervals of three weeks . |
| 4 | ON A rugged hill track overlooking the former car plant at Linwood , Scottish motoring journalists turned out in force last week to put the latest version of a motoring legend through its paces over some very nasty terrain . |
| 5 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 6 | A host of celebs turned out in London to see Hear My Song , the film about Irish singer Josef Locke , win a top prize . |
| 7 | At one function staged by the Party in Schweinfurt in October 1940 , for example , the local population turned out in force to welcome U-Boat veterans at a recruiting session for the navy , but the same people ‘ were almost entirely missing at the other functions of the NSDAP ’ . |
| 8 | Defence workers turned out in force at Westminster , a reminder to the government that if its determination to curb spending means cutting the defence budget , jobs as well as the armed forces will suffer . |
| 9 | When Dorning Town turned up in December they found no one here . |
| 10 | the Leeds team turned out in St. Trinian 's uniforms including branch manager , Ian Davies . |
| 11 | Nothing happened until yesterday , when an unidentified body turned up in Paris . |
| 12 | But , whatever her doubts , she had to admit that the dress did look good , and it was n't too formal if her escort turned up in jeans . |
| 13 | The airmen and women 's families turned out in force to watch , and top billing at the biggest farewell bash in town went to those masters of precision flying , The Red Arrows . |
| 14 | The event turned out in fact as successful as last year 's but there had not been any advantage in the February timing , . |
| 15 | Despite the rain the queue went on and on and on.Over eight hundred people turned out in Oxford to see the blockbuster everyone 's talking about . |
| 16 | Despite the rain the queue went on and on and on.Over eight hundred people turned out in Oxford to see the blockbuster everyone 's talking about . |
| 17 | Ranchers turned out in force to hear him ; the crowd was a bobbing sea of black and white cowboy hats . |
| 18 | Although the Critique had been intended to rescue Marxism from the sclerosis of Stalinism , Sartre found that his theory of history , far from explaining what had gone wrong when the most radical political theory turned out in practice to be one of the most oppressive , had rather shown why it had necessarily happened that way . |
| 19 | They have statutory powers to make by-laws concerning the number , health and welfare of commoners ' animals , and payments for marking such animals , and for pigs turned out in pannage time . |
| 20 | Large flakes , too : in mid-May an experienced miner turned up in Sam 's Jewellers in Sacramento with half a dozen three- and four-ounce nuggets fished from the American River . |
| 21 | However , come 10.30am the advisers turned up in force , 45 of them including the Committee 's own Stella Whitbourn advising on social work . |
| 22 | THE royals turned out in force yesterday … just for the cameras . |
| 23 | ‘ Kitty disappeared off the face of the earth and then without warning turned up in Whitechapel with a man in a motor car ; neither of them seemed to be hers but she looked very pleased with life . ’ |
| 24 | THE stars turned out in force and the sun shone all day to ensure this year 's BNFL sponsored Pro/Celebrity Golf Classic at Walton Hall was a soaraway success . |
| 25 | The stars turned out in force to see Bono and the boys bring a mega tour to a close . |
| 26 | That is um when sexually transmitted diseases turned up in children , well it must be towels , it must be toilets , it must be clothes , bed linen erm , this is where the infection 's come from apparently . |
| 27 | DUBLINERS turned out in strength last night to show their abhorrence of the IRA 's violence and to demonstrate solidarity with the bombing victims of Warrington . |
| 28 | Marjorie turned over in bed with a deep , sobbing sigh , and he felt vaguely and wearily sorry for whatever unhappiness she was feeling in her sleep . |
| 29 | The protestors turned up in force to confront the man , but he 'd already been and gone . |
| 30 | Every time Dyson looked at himself in the kitchen mirror , trying to imagine it was a television screen , his stomach and Jannie 's stomach turned over in unison . |