Example sentences of "[noun] he turned [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Galliéni , who was senior to Joffre , had been offered the supreme command , a post he turned down on the grounds that all his experience had been as a colonial soldier and administrator . |
| 2 | With Emery Walker he turned back to the Roman types of four hundred years before and to the beauty of woodcut title-pages . |
| 3 | When this failed to elicit a response he turned directly to the larger . |
| 4 | Panic seized him and with a sudden curse he turned away from the wicket-gate of Clark 's Wharf and gestured at the others to get away . |
| 5 | One day , he thought , we shall probably know each other , and for that reason he turned away from the window , not feeling quite equal to meeting the unashamed curiosity of their glances as they came nearer . |
| 6 | It was firmly slapped from his hand by his mother , and abashed by her glare he turned away with the rest , to leave the accursed woman alone , abandoned , shunned like a leper . |