Example sentences of "turned the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He turned the shoes over in his hands and said : |
| 2 | But when the wind turned the leaves , the blackthorn flowers were enough to arrest the movement at that place . |
| 3 | Why were its contents not scattered by the same hand that turned the records of the Strategy Unit out of their covers ? |
| 4 | They were lovely clothes , beautifully made from fine materials , and if Ellie took a tuck with her hand at the back of the dresses , and turned the hems up a good six or nine inches , looking in the dressing mirror she could get more than a fair impression of how she might look once she too was a young woman . |
| 5 | The Third Division front-runners , who had already knocked Millwall out of this competition and have not lost at home for 12 months , refused to be intimidated , then turned the tables . |
| 6 | CHRIS KIWOMYA turned the tables on Premier League leaders Norwich at Carrow Road last night . |
| 7 | Fighting with tremendous courage , they turned the tables completely . |
| 8 | Pybus ( 9.3–4–9–3 ) and Andy Sapey ( 9–1–26–3 ) then turned the tables as the OIs were skittled for 71 . |
| 9 | But eventually selective breeding turned the tables on quality , and the economic boom that followed the First World War brought an explosion of demand for fur , for the first time a high-fashion commodity . |
| 10 | You 're just mad now because I turned the tables on you . ’ |
| 11 | NEW MARSKE Harrier Tony Livingstone turned the tables on North-East half marathon champion Kevin Vose to win last night 's second Northern Echo Cleveland Midweek Series event at Hutton Gate , Guisborough . |
| 12 | We turned the tables in the FA Cup , but we still have a score to settle . |
| 13 | The Americans turned the Islands into a plantation and Honolulu was now the business centre of the Pacific . |
| 14 | And there was er , he , he , used to have some fields up Wood Green as , as well that he turned the cattle into . |
| 15 | They were more lightly armed than Alfonso 's knights , but their new way of fighting turned the scales in their favour . |
| 16 | Garvey 's twisted his dreams and taken the pageant from him and turned the plays to his own ends and made him a party to this … this blasphemy ! |
| 17 | As Van Cheele walked along , he turned the questions over and over in his head . |
| 18 | She realized she had missed an opportunity to needle Brian and went on , ‘ Tim says drop-outs are the fault of a cynical and uncompassionate administration who 're buggered if they 're going to waste good money on a load of lunatics , so they 've slung them out and turned the asylums into conference centres for advertising agencies . ’ |
| 19 | But , while his security forces turned the streets of Bucharest into a killing field , it seemed that Mr Ceausescu was ready to stop at nothing . |
| 20 | Ruth had no idea how long they had been driving when Sean turned the horses off the road on to a narrow side track . |
| 21 | I turned the horses round , kept them on the headland and did n't drill any more that day . |
| 22 | The sun , like a pearl through the mist , turned the cobwebs into jewelled tracery . |
| 23 | They turned the lights out and sat in fear . |
| 24 | He turned the lights and the music off , and because there was no other traffic on the almost-country road at three in the morning , there was complete silence . |
| 25 | He got himself back to his flat and he turned the lights on in every room . |
| 26 | ( 'Right then , quieten down' , ‘ Right then , let's see that group 's work ’ , ‘ Right then , who turned the lights off ? ’ etc , etc . ) |
| 27 | Then they cut the PA on us at the end of the show , turned the lights on us before our time was up , and cut my power . |
| 28 | All we heard was one scream for a bobby like you know , and they turned the lights on . |
| 29 | The TV afternoons and the hours went so slow until he came back and turned the lights on . |
| 30 | For long it was thought that wet spraying turned the buds to a wet mash , and therefore dusting each individual bud was necessary . |