Example sentences of "we turned [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We turned round for a look . |
| 2 | We turned round but the man on the staircase had vanished . |
| 3 | We turned round and have managed to encourage him of his own volition to rejoin the others to make sure that all six enter the Pentland Firth and have a free passage out into the Atlantic . ’ |
| 4 | Well , I du n no , it 's go it 's got , I was showing th I was showing the licensing people round erm the inspection of , Jean we Jean was n't here , we were looking round and fire brigade and that were there and inspection , we turned round and all written across is Jean is a fucking fat cow ! |
| 5 | No , there were two women , two girls sitting lower down , they kept on turning round and laughing like hell , you see , said laughing at us , there 's nothing behind us so we turned round and there 's two jocks sitting there |
| 6 | Well what we did we stopped at this track and we turned round and we went to there was like a twenty foot straight yeah , and there 's like and everybody 's sort of like going , no , not that . |
| 7 | At Bergheim — three houses and a gas station — we turned on to one of those narrow tracks that do n't even get a farm road numeral . |
| 8 | When we crossed the River Erne , at Ballyshannon , we turned inland , driving between hilly green fields and wet woodland , near the banks of the river . |
| 9 | After a time we turned inland on a rough track which climbed through ravines into the desert hills . |
| 10 | And , on the day itself , we turned up early to sort out the club . |
| 11 | So we turned up and the fellow had the opportunity , therefore , of hearing his concerto played off by little Wolfgang as if he knew it by heart … |
| 12 | They should bloody well have stuck around till we turned up . |
| 13 | If we turned up an hour late for a function in England we would be hammered by everybody . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Ca n't you just see their faces back home if we turned up with this ? ’ said Angalo . |
| 15 | The conversation then started to get interesting and we turned up the volume in London . |
| 16 | In fact we turned up some gas shares on the way , but er and a bit of cash , but that was n't enough to pay the funeral accounts and she made no provision for paying any of the bills so I sold the gas shares towards paying the funeral account and then got shouted at by the er beneficiary children because I had n't consulted them about selling the gas shares and I said Well , they have to be sold because there 's bills to pay and there is no way of dealing with that . |
| 17 | Sharing between us our repertoire , we turned up two comedy songs , But I could n't and Just in the old sweet way . |
| 18 | I says how come you deputation , you gave us a time of which to be here , now we said , we turned up a quarter hour beforehand and I says we get a phone call er a an intermission from Councillor that you could n't make it because that your car broke down . |
| 19 | Omar assured us that the Somalis he had engaged would wait contentedly with the camels until we turned up . |
| 20 | ‘ But only because when we turned up at the solicitor 's to work out the marriage settlement — her idea , not mine — she realised for the first time that I was n't as rich as she thought . |
| 21 | Rangers manager Gerry Francis said : ‘ Peter Swales was probably glad we turned up . |
| 22 | We just got told as soon as we turned up that the course was cut with immediate effect . |
| 23 | We just got told as soon as we turned up that the course was cut with immediate effect . |
| 24 | From there we turned right to ride up the hill towards Lastingham , over the bottom of the wild moor that backs on to Rosedale . |
| 25 | From Morpeth Gate we turned right following the path towards Swinithwaite , striking off at a kink in the lane to the field gate that led to the ruined Chapel of the Knights Templars . |
| 26 | The breakthrough was a squat we turned over on the south coast , two years back . |
| 27 | Later , IFAR [ International Foundation for Art Research ] was formed and we turned over our files to them . |
| 28 | ‘ We would n't find any suspicious substances , then , if we turned over your mother 's house ? ’ |
| 29 | So to give you an idea of our size although we may be a little bit smaller than last year we turned over some eighteen million pounds and declared a profit before tax of just over three point one million pounds . |
| 30 | We turned over the Bundesliga championships , and then were unlucky to come across an inspired Rangers side , who , but for the odd-bribe or two could have gone all the way . |