Example sentences of "turned [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile the Republic , effectively abandoned by its fellow democracies , had turned for help to the Soviet Union . |
| 2 | Just under a century later , in 869–70 , the Emperor Basil II , though he had turned for help to Pope Hadrian II , was responsible for summoning the fourth Council of Constantinople . |
| 3 | Pursuing its goal of creating very high-speed clustered configurations of the RS/6000 Unix workstations and servers , IBM Corp has turned for help — on the fast optical links it will need — to Ancor Communications Inc in Minnetonka , Minnesota . |
| 4 | Of greater moment , it was to precious substances that men turned for currency , since by definition these possessed the prime quality of acceptability . |
| 5 | When the structure of organization in the whole city was reviewed in Sheffield in 1911 , it was 10 Salvidge that local Unionists turned for advice , as did the Manchester Unionists at the same time . |
| 6 | The watches were stopped and everyone held breath as the timekeepers turned for consultation with the track referee . |
| 7 | But she replied only with a slight inclination , and then turned for Conchis to take off her wrap , which he placed over the back of his own chair . |
| 8 | While assignment may go hand in hand with such assertoric force in positive statements , it clearly does not do so in questions , nor in subordinate clauses like that in : ( 34 ) I wonder if the taps were turned off Questions and such subordinate clauses show clearly that an idea of completeness which is independent of that of assertion is necessary . |
| 9 | At the end of August the rains stopped as suddenly as if taps had been turned off September was considered by the English community even under normal conditions to be the most unhealthy month of the year ; while the hot sun resumed its office of drying out the pools of water which had collected on the sodden earth , fever-bearing mists and miasmas hung everywhere . |
| 10 | Turned off mains , locked up loos , |
| 11 | Given their experience of the remote jargon of their teacher training , and of the demonstrable lack of impact of the pundits on education , as well as their weariness and preoccupation , it is entirely understandable that teachers should be turned off ideas at least as much in 1989 as they were twenty-five years ago : understandable but a mistake , as I am trying to argue . |
| 12 | He was very tiring for her and her priority behaviour problem was his wandering off when her back was turned during housework . |
| 13 | In becoming the first country to shun the Springboks , the Welsh not only turned about face from their decision of five years ago , but also brought the advent of a professional rugby circus in the Republic that bit closer . |
| 14 | During the preceding years the hairpin had perforated the inner end of the vagina and eventually turned through 180° . |
| 15 | a ) Show B turned through 90° anti-clockwise from 12 . |
| 16 | b ) Show B turned through 90° clockwise from 12 . |
| 17 | For the second migration , the plates were turned through 90° and the same solvents were used in a ratio of 120:160:5:5 vol . |
| 18 | As well as the loss of two doors , the new ZXs also drop the sideglass behind the C-pillar , gain fillets in the waistline each side of a thickened B-pillar , have door handles turned through 90degs , and are fitted with new rear bumpers , fatter C-pillars and rounded rear wheelarches . |
| 19 | Her eyes turned towards Athelstan , pleading with him . |
| 20 | Murray 's cross from the right in the 67th minute was precise and evaded everyone except McCoist , whose header was turned towards Dykstra 's right-hand post and was as finely judged as the ball that set up the chance . |
| 21 | All eyes turned towards Margot Iverson at the other end of the dining table . |
| 22 | Without waiting for an explanation from the men , who had all assumed sheepish expressions , the lady gracefully turned towards Cleo and Javelot , her arms extended . |
| 23 | We have seen how a couple of strands of consonant voices can be turned into mild or harsh dissonance , or vice versa — how dissonant voices can be turned towards consonance . |
| 24 | He looked puzzled for a moment , then turned towards Sergeant Morrison and winked . |
| 25 | All eyes turned towards Rayne , who smiled apologetically and said , yes , that he had asked Vokins to bid on his behalf as he himself would be conducting the auction and it would clearly be difficult for him to put in bids and be auctioneer at the same time . |
| 26 | All heads turned towards Thérèse , while the Ave Maria shot from their lips . |
| 27 | As she eagerly scanned the blank faces turned like sunflowers towards us , I felt almost faint for a moment , overwhelmed by her excitement and my own desire . |
| 28 | Her father had turned against Bunyan , and when he heard that she had ridden behind him to a meeting , he locked her out of the house for two days . |
| 29 | Cartimandua , Queen of the Brigantes , also remained loyal ; had she turned against Rome she had the resources to turn the balance with a sudden thrust from the north . |
| 30 | And the signs are that , after 40 years , the tide has turned against Britain 's factory farmers . |