Example sentences of "[noun pl] turn [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her pale blue eyes turned away from the interviewer and towards the camera . |
| 2 | Sir Harold sat still , his eyes turned away from the window , his head full of old dreams . |
| 3 | For a moment his eyes turned away from the city to the sleeping form of Madra . |
| 4 | The dog , after lapping a little water , went and sat down heavily beside him , eyes turned up at the portrait of itself thoughtfully , perhaps making a critical assessment of it . |
| 5 | Eyes turned again to the tea urn . |
| 6 | Clearly , however , where the overall number of speakers is small as it is in many sociolinguistic surveys , the number of higher-status speakers turning up in a random selection procedure which samples from the entire urban area will be correspondingly small . |
| 7 | She looked down at her new French muslin pyjamas , the corners of her thin lips turning up in a rueful smile , wondering if the whisky stains would come out — and deciding that they probably would n't . |
| 8 | Then four brothers turned up in a bus and killed three brothers who lived in that house next door . |
| 9 | Police estimated no more than 30,000 party supporters turned out on the heavily barricaded streets , eager to be arrested by the 75,000-strong security forces . |
| 10 | About 30 journalists turned up at the Thai border village of Pong Nam Ron , about 200 miles east of Bangkok , yesterday morning , but were told by the local Thai military commander that he knew of no Vietnamese prisoners . |
| 11 | More than 40,000 fans turned up for the 12-hour event , Britain 's biggest-ever legal Rave gig . |
| 12 | Wimbledon boss Joe Kinnear after just 1,987 fans turned up for the Coca-Cola match against Bolton |
| 13 | Heads turned all along the quiet Kensington street . |
| 14 | His lips turned up in a self-satisfied smile . |
| 15 | His lips turned up in a terrible parody of a smile . |
| 16 | The marquis 's lips turned down at the corners . |
| 17 | What must we do to get our supporters to turn out on the day ? |
| 18 | Mirth being in decidedly short supply over the past few weeks amidst the myriad financial scandals and news of the ongoing long-gingering of the gay law reform bill , there was no doubt among the many disappointed punters turned away from the full house on opening night that they were still intent on partying on down at Cork 's new lesbian and gay centre , The Other Place . |
| 19 | The UN felt swamped by the quality and quantity of NATO staff work — NATO planners turned up with no fewer than five bound volumes — in the initial stages of the joint operation that was set up to keep the peace in Bosnia should the Bosnian Serbs join the Croats and Muslims in accepting the Vance-Owen peace plan . |
| 20 | No sooner had a special train , carrying 633 people who had taken refuge at the West German embassy in Warsaw , arrived in Hanover yesterday than at least 200 more refugees turned up on the embassy doorstep . |
| 21 | A stream of visitors turned up at the camp . |
| 22 | Delaney stood , watching the hatch close up , with the last view of the car headlights turning away towards the main building and the control tower . |
| 23 | Then on Wednesday , hearses from two funeral companies turned up at the morgue to claim the body . |
| 24 | He saw his own feet thrashing the water like dying fish , and his good leather shoes turning idly in the current as they rushed underground . |
| 25 | A block of classification numbers usually appears to provide fairly precise demarcation lines ( though even here the inconsistencies of classification schemes may lead to some difficulties — undesirable elements turning up in an otherwise homogenous subject block ) . |
| 26 | They are analogous to the family saloons that car production lines turn out by the thousand . |
| 27 | Two riders turned in at the approach to the castle , the rest of the cavalcade swept onward through the gate , flung open to give them passage , and vanished in a flurry of spume and fine mud along the foregate . |
| 28 | Big crowds turned out around the 1.46 mile city centre circuit , covered eight times after the international field had already done 105 miles over tough territory in Yorkshire and Lancashire . |
| 29 | Women with stiff-brimmed panama hats turned up at the side and pinned with giant rosettes . |
| 30 | Where the tracks turns right at the woods , walk ahead to the gap in the hedge where the path joins the Ridgeway ( 639 032 ) . |