Example sentences of "[noun pl] turn [adv] [prep] the " 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 | Eyes turned again to the tea urn . |
| 5 | Heads turned all along the quiet Kensington street . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Where the tracks turns right at the woods , walk ahead to the gap in the hedge where the path joins the Ridgeway ( 639 032 ) . |
| 10 | Sikes turned angrily towards the old man . |
| 11 | The hips turn strongly behind the punch and a loud shout should accompany it . |
| 12 | Now I think the regeneration of the economy of North Yorkshire in general and Harrogate in particular will be a part of the regeneration of the national economy , when things turn right for the nation as a whole , they will turn right for North Yorkshire as a whole and for Harrogate in particular . |
| 13 | They hung drying on short loops of black thread suspended from lengths of string stretched across the walls from corner to corner , and dim shadows turned slowly on the walls behind them . |
| 14 | At the lodge gates turn right over the reservoir dam then walk up through Blackstone Bank Wood . |
| 15 | If the new government — whoever heads it — wants to avoid an embarrassing , inflationary and recession-reinforcing rise in mortgage rates , it must allow societies to turn increasingly to the international money markets . |
| 16 | For the chairman of the Royal Commission Labour Ministers turned away from the legal profession , appointing instead an experienced businessman and ICI director , Dr Richard Beeching . |
| 17 | The stone flowerpots on the forecourt sported bright bouquets of pelargoniums , their magenta-splashed faces turned gratefully to the noonday sun . |
| 18 | JUST months after this country 's own election fever , the cameras turn westwards to the States . |
| 19 | Agnes Smedley 's heroine , Marie , talks about having to shut her mother out , shut off from her , in order to protect herself against her mother 's extraordinary cruelty — while Adrienne Rich works on the feeling of severance , of being deprived of her mother in a culture which insists that the daughters turn away from the mother toward the father . |