Example sentences of "[noun] turned [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dog , after lapping a little water , went and sat down heavily beside him , eyes turned up at the portrait of itself thoughtfully , perhaps making a critical assessment of it . |
| 2 | Manville turned back to the elevator , placing his right palm flat against the opaque plastic panel built into the wall beside the doors . |
| 3 | One who smoked too much , that was evident by the time the car turned on to the autostrada going south towards Siena , its light and siren going although the roads were fairly quiet . |
| 4 | Shaking his head at Feargal , amusement dancing in his eyes , Donal turned back to the barman and Ellie was left with only her drink , or Feargal , to stare at . |
| 5 | My mind turned back to the man Mrs Bradshaw had accosted in the garden , but I knew of no one who bore me that kind of grudge or , if he did , would take it out on me in such a petty and spiteful way . |
| 6 | With automatic professionalism Folly had carried them into the bathroom and begun to hunt around for a suitable container before her mind turned back to the question of who could have sent them . |
| 7 | Ace half turned back to the shuttle , pointed towards the sprouting hemisphere ( like chunks of cheddar stuck all over half a grapefruit , she thought ) , and aimed the suit towards the shape that looked like the nose of an asteroid cruncher . |
| 8 | No sooner had a special train , carrying 633 people who had taken refuge at the West German embassy in Warsaw , arrived in Hanover yesterday than at least 200 more refugees turned up on the embassy doorstep . |
| 9 | The victims were crushed to death when the coach turned over in the air and smashed into the ground roof downwards . |
| 10 | Katherine turned back to the window . |
| 11 | A stream of visitors turned up at the camp . |
| 12 | It was a coincidence she was here at the moment the child turned on to the street . |
| 13 | Jane turned back to the mirror . |
| 14 | FORMER England batsman Bill Athey has had his request for cricket 's equivalent of a free transfer turned down by the Test and County Cricket Board . |
| 15 | As Frankenstein 's gaze had recently done , my gaze turned up to the ceiling , beyond which lay the laboratory — with all its gruesome secrets now accessible to me ! |
| 16 | Then on Wednesday , hearses from two funeral companies turned up at the morgue to claim the body . |
| 17 | Two riders turned in at the approach to the castle , the rest of the cavalcade swept onward through the gate , flung open to give them passage , and vanished in a flurry of spume and fine mud along the foregate . |
| 18 | Kelly turned back to the partner on her left . |
| 19 | Cardiff turned back to the girl . |
| 20 | Jimmy was able to stand unassisted now as Cardiff turned back to the girl . |
| 21 | Cardiff turned back to the window and wiped the fog of his breath from the glass . |
| 22 | Cardiff turned back to the car . |
| 23 | Patrick turned over in the bed , and discovered that there was a fire burning in the grate and a breakfast tray on the small side-table beside the bed . |
| 24 | One night , after heavy drinking in Soho Minton turned up at the house where they were living , broke a window , and climbed in , saying , ‘ I just want to be part of you . ’ |
| 25 | Later , after watching him drive away , Sophie turned back into the house . |
| 26 | Women with stiff-brimmed panama hats turned up at the side and pinned with giant rosettes . |
| 27 | Pascoe turned back to the hall , picked up the telephone and dialled . |
| 28 | As you probably know , Eddi turned up in the TV series Your Cheatin' Heart , not so long back , doing her joint vocal and thespian thing . |
| 29 | By 1953 , the stiffener works had gone , the buildings turned over to the manufacture of various inks and dyestuffs . |
| 30 | Sharon Hills parents John and Shiela turned up to the inquest into their daughters death — which happened last month when she was visiting egypt . |