Example sentences of "[verb] turn [adv prt] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A beach clean-up along 300 miles of Texas shoreline has turned up 15,600 plastic six-pack rings in 3 hours . |
| 2 | Just sorry it has turned out this way . ’ |
| 3 | THE propaganda machine which used to crank out the political fantasies of East European communists is being put to work turning out mushy romance novels . |
| 4 | perhaps if we can quickly , I mean I do n't want a lot out of Tesco 's , it will just save turning out , I do n't mind turning out this afternoon but , if the traffic |
| 5 | What Catriona had to hide was that she hated turning down any gift from Patrice , who was the best waitress in the place , as well as the nicest . |
| 6 | In the US , Random House/Times Book is going to turn up next month with a $22 volume called Computer Wars , How the West Can Win in a Post-IBM World , a blueprint for how America can retain supremacy in IT . |
| 7 | But nearly a third of the supporters who took advantage of the offer did so with only the Republic game in mind — and did n't bother turning up last night . |
| 8 | The clipboards tinkled again , but he did n't bother to turn round this time . |
| 9 | In my own practice the equivalent of two complete surgery sessions of people fail to turn up each week without letting us know . |
| 10 | John had turned up one day in the shop . |
| 11 | The slow but steady rise in France 's defence spending has begun to turn down this year . |
| 12 | ‘ A lot of shareholders have turned down generous takeover bids over the last few years and have regretted it , ’ he said . |