Example sentences of "[pron] turned [adv] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asked about his first day , Terry said : ‘ I was stunned when I turned up on the Monday only to be confronted with the aftermath of the weekend fire . |
| 2 | I looked round very carefully but could see nothing , so I turned back on the tail of the nearest Hun , who was chasing some Hurricanes in front of him . |
| 3 | She turned over on the bed and sat up . |
| 4 | Hoping that nothing had gone wrong with the course of her friend 's romance , she turned around on the piano stool as she heard hard , firm footsteps walking along the terrace . |
| 5 | Good piece of work , Joe , he thought with some satisfaction , as she turned slowly on the wire . |
| 6 | But actually it does n't tell you anything about the quality of the care which they 're purchasing and the evidence that we are getting increasingly from the community health council is the experience of people of the health service is that actually the quality of the care is getting worse and this is not due to the staff in the health ee the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the e the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the for an operation er , four years , it should to be said er , she 's been waiting despite the government 's claim that all operations are done within two years er for very severe varicose veins and surprisingly enough she got them because of course most varicose have been removed her , the north-east Thames region erm , and er she turned up on the Wednesday and the operation had been postponed twice previously er , she was er gone through all the er , various tests which took her four hours cos she had to find all the places herself , there was nobody to show her to X-ray and various other places erm she was prepared for the op and then was sent home because there was n't a bed available ! |
| 7 | One of the precautions was that everybody however remotely connected with the pie had to have their excreta tested , and this fact led to the pinstriped officials from Westminster who turned up on the night before pie day being turned away . |
| 8 | The breakthrough was a squat we turned over on the south coast , two years back . |
| 9 | Since they turned up on the first day of term wearing headscarves , their teachers , supported by the headmaster , have refused to teach them unless the girls remove the offending headgear . |
| 10 | Kylie and her new Svengali Blamey got an instant glimpse of that arrogance when they turned up on the doorstep of the Hit Factory . |
| 11 | The hot shine must have cut to black as he was soft-footing it up the stairs , because when he turned around on the half-landing and crouched behind the angle of the banister the only light in the hall was the inward spill from the porch , and that was getting less as the door slowly closed on its hydraulic arm . |
| 12 | The phone kept ringing and no one there , and then he turned up on the doorstep . |
| 13 | It must have been quite a shock when he turned up on the doorstep . ’ |
| 14 | He turned over on the ground , and put his hand to his cock and squeezed himself . |
| 15 | Galliéni , who was senior to Joffre , had been offered the supreme command , a post he turned down on the grounds that all his experience had been as a colonial soldier and administrator . |
| 16 | The horseman took a great pride in his horses , as we have seen ; and when he turned out on the highway he was careful to see they were braided up , the brasses highly polished , and the bounces — the ‘ lovely coloured worsted ’ , as one horseman called them — properly displayed . |
| 17 | This " trusted friend " ( until it turned round on the sufferer : there is a Chinese saying " First man takes drink , then drink takes drink , then drink takes man " ) was the only known method of suppressing unpleasant feelings and , although maybe no longer trusted , is nonetheless sadly missed . |