Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] turn [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another effect of ACE was to take jobs from others in full-time employment because , for the above reasons , employers naturally turned to ACE if they could get away with it . |
| 2 | With legs slowly turning to jelly , I skied down hard , icy snow , followed by spring snow , then slush . |
| 3 | All eyes now turn to Spain and Britain 's last 2 warm-up matches against the host nation in the Olympic Stadium . |
| 4 | For they were melting as she stood there , and she seemed to be liquid inside too , her limbs strangely turning to water . |
| 5 | Sikes then turned to Fagin . |
| 6 | Italy has received comparatively little attention , although many of its foremost artists also turned to book illustration at least once in their working lives . |
| 7 | Further , the centres only turn in place and are never permuted . |
| 8 | At first written in German and Hebrew , these publications soon turned to English . |
| 9 | Pre-bookable excursions are available ; for further details please turn to page 8 . |
| 10 | The demonstrations soon turned into confrontations with Israeli police and army units , a number of youths were killed and hundreds of people injured . |
| 11 | It is not surprising , therefore , that those norms sometimes turn into dogma , which pose an internal , as distinct from an external , threat to academic freedom . |
| 12 | Second to reach the new mother " when her baby began to walk and her thoughts naturally turned to shoes . |
| 13 | It 's that time of year again when thoughts inevitably turn to weight , and the problem of how to get rid of those extra Christmas pounds . |
| 14 | She waited a few moments then turned into East 48th Street , still pretending to look in the shop windows as she walked . |
| 15 | With the mujaheddin at the gates , it was believed , the town 's defences would crumble as the Afghans within turned on supporters of the Najibullah regime . |
| 16 | And Hilderbridge lay in the sunshine , its slate roofs all turned to planes of silver , its spires sharp needles , as if a silversmith had made it and dropped it in the valley between the meadows and the moor . |
| 17 | His mother Shelley faces a huge repair bill after the raiders also turned on taps and flooded the house in Shoeburyness , Essex . |