Example sentences of "[adv] turned [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I admired Venables , his flamboyant style and attitude , but I could see the dangers in the temptations of life in London and I regretfully turned down the move . |
| 2 | ‘ I suppose you also turned down the chance to be his girlfriend ? ’ |
| 3 | Yeo also turned down the Health committee 's call for a DoH contingency fund , which would underwrite SSDs faced with unexpected demand . |
| 4 | Bishops then turned up the pressure in a search for an equaliser , and it nearly came on seventy minutes as yet another debut man , Tommy Callanan blasted the ball against the underside of the ball from literally yards out when it was easier to score . |
| 5 | He twice turned down the chance to become Secretary General of Nato , and the ideas on defence and deterrence outlined here compare favourably with much of the output of the Beltway Bandits and their fellow theorists in Paris or Moscow , save only that they are more readably expressed . |