Example sentences of "turned [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is space at the waterfall for parking or a picnic , and here cars must be turned for the journey back to Dent . |
| 2 | At last the tide has turned for the unsung aircraft of 1940 . |
| 3 | Rachid 's fortunes turned for the worse , and the marriage was affected . |
| 4 | She was hungry and sorry she 'd turned off the radio . |
| 5 | But by the time I had turned off the road from Bellingham at Kielder village and driven up the bumpy Forest Drive to East Kielder Farm , I was longing for the sight of something other than water and trees . |
| 6 | He is said to have once turned off the water supply to Newcastle — which he owned — when a local hotel refused to serve him a drink . |
| 7 | We had driven back to the village and had just turned off the road on to the In Salah track . |
| 8 | The room seemed to have gone dark , as if someone had turned off the lights , and she wondered if she might be going to faint . |
| 9 | It was as if someone had suddenly turned off the sound . |
| 10 | It reinforced his uneasiness , however , when she lit candles on the small dining-table and then turned off the only overhead electric light . |
| 11 | It is unique in that juniors come first , are welcomed at all times in and out of the club house , on and off of the courts and will never be turned off the courts by seniors . |
| 12 | This region was one of those most affected by the depopulation of villages and hamlets , several having recently been enclosed ; large numbers of poor in parts point to consequent loss of employment , although it is not clear whether people had actually been turned off the land or the townships had gradually contracted . |
| 13 | They had been driving through Wales , to the sea , and Carrie had turned off the main road into a narrow valley and said , this was where she and Uncle Nick had lived for a while in the war , would they like to stop the night and see ? |
| 14 | The shock was so great that it brought tears to his eyes , and when he 'd turned off the tap and dried his hand , the tears did n't stop . |
| 15 | He has turned away the glorious light of his countenance — or maybe the traffic fumes have got in the way , or maybe he 's turned off the telly because of the charismatics . ’ |
| 16 | When the switching transistor is turned off the phase current can continue to flow through the path provided by the freewheeling diode and freewheeling resistance . |
| 17 | Similarly when the phase is turned off the decay of current can be temporarily reversed as the induced voltage passes through its maximum negative value . |
| 18 | At a time t after T1 is turned off the phase current is : The time ( t2 ) taken for the current to decay to zero is given by : Comparing Eqns . |
| 19 | He pulled it shut abruptly , and then turned off the light . |
| 20 | An inquest on May 22 , 1990 , into the deaths of 45 people when a British Midland Boeing 737 crashed near Kegworth in December 1988 [ see p. 36410 ] returned a verdict of accidental death , discounting negligence on the part of pilot and crew ( who , amid the confusion , had turned off the functioning engine instead of the one that had caught fire ) . |
| 21 | But within a minute that Renault could have turned off the main road and got lost in the maze of lanes to the west of Sandwich Flats . |
| 22 | We had turned off the main passageway into a narrow corridor leading to the stairs of our room , when our way was suddenly blocked by two savage creatures who seemed to step out of the darkness . |
| 23 | Approval listings will only be produced in your current default directory if the LIFESPAN manager has NOT turned off the production of approval listings . |
| 24 | turned off the gas and crawled , |
| 25 | The buses turned off the main road on to a forestry road running through the woods , and in a little while they arrived at their destination . |
| 26 | She endured the renewed pain stoically until the water ran clear , then turned off the taps and clambered from the bath , feeling very shaky , but wonderfully , blissfully clean . |
| 27 | God , I was nearly in an accident last night , that reminds me , coming , I 'd just turned off the Wrexham road , er going along the Paisword one |
| 28 | Midnight turned as the Captain moved through light beams spreading from the windows across the yard . |
| 29 | And it was to this man that almost everyone now turned as the rather quiet , rather cultured , rather interesting , wholly English voice began to speak : |
| 30 | The trolley masts were of the Brecknell , Munro B/l type , but a late version which could be turned through the full circle . |