Example sentences of "turn [pers pn] away " in BNC.
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| 1 | Generally relatives from Scotland in my case , and decide to stay , having invited themselves , and you ca n't really turn them away , er , decide to stay for two or three days . |
| 2 | He knew well the anxiety this would create as I wondered whether one day he would turn me away . |
| 3 | ‘ It was an accident ; please do n't turn me away . ’ |
| 4 | Learn 'em , fit yourself round 'em and no one 'll turn you away . ’ |
| 5 | IT is sad that a pub should turn you away simply for the kind of fashion you decide to adopt , particularly since you had been an accepted customer for some years . |
| 6 | Having passed the equivalent of the first MD examination , the universities could hardly turn her away , though places were made conditional on her waiting for her eighteenth birthday before going up . |
| 7 | ‘ You ca n't turn him away at this hour , ’ she said . |