Example sentences of "turns [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It turns on to its side and as I cling on for dear life I hear a startled cry from Nathan . |
| 2 | Felicity turns on to her stomach . |
| 3 | When An Teallach passes from sight behind foothills , the road turns down to scenery of a very different character , to the beautiful trees and parklands of Dundonnell and vistas of sylvan charm . |
| 4 | Approaching from Sedbergh , The Street turns off to the right immediately after Rawthey Bridge and climbs steeply before contouring , with excellent views denied to the motorist on the A683 , alongside a moorland pockmarked with shakeholes . |
| 5 | The road continues south , climbing over a rise with a good retrospective view of the full length of Kingsdale and then makes a long descent to Thornton in Lonsdale after a branch turns off to the right for the A65 at Westhouse . |
| 6 | From the village centre , the Thornton road descends sharply initially and when it levels , a side road called Oddies Lane turns off to the right . |
| 7 | Here a track turns off to the right to mount the gentle slope where , at mid-height , a short detour to the left reveals Storrs Cave . |
| 8 | A short distance up the road from the Hill Inn , a bridleway turns off to the right and , with Ingleborough looming directly in front , passes along an easy terrace to reach a gate in a cross-wall after half a mile . |
| 9 | Just before a road turns off to the left into the village there is a terrace , the spot where Sir Winston Churchill did his paintings of the village . |
| 10 | Almost opposite this is a road which turns off to the right down to Rabaçal ( 64km ) at a height of 1,070m . |
| 11 | From Santana a road turns off to the left which winds up into the Pico das Pedras Park . |
| 12 | Where the road starts to bear to the right , a surfaced road , with ‘ No Entry ’ signs , turns off to the left . |
| 13 | As the road leaves Clashnessie Bay , the hamlet of the same name is passed and after a further mile a side road turns off to the right and crosses the bare and windswept peninsula , the Ru Stoer , to a lighthouse where it ends at a parking place for cars . |
| 14 | A side road turns off to Achmelvich , renowned for its rocky coast and excellent sandy beaches , but on a recent visit I was disappointed to find the place robbed of its appeal by a tight concentration of caravans . |
| 15 | At Fabian , three miles further on , a road turns off to the right up into the mountains : I shall come back to this in a moment . |
| 16 | This work is described as a personal celebration of the mountains and landscapes of Nepal , but it turns out to be a pictorial account of six treks and climbs in the more popular areas of the country . |
| 17 | But masked first-person narrative turns out to be deflected stream of consciousness — ‘ He was not really afraid ’ will only transpose into ‘ I 'm not really afraid ’ flitting through his head as he passes the landlady 's open kitchen door — so that the past tense collapses into the present , and we find we have put our finger on something pertinent to the novel 's urgency and attack and ( to borrow Andrew Forge 's ugly but useful key-term for late Monet ) its frontality . |
| 18 | But the notion of an instrument turns out to be as empty as his posturing . |
| 19 | When this and the regeneration/resurrection theme are brought to bear upon the remark about Bazarov and the 1840s , what seemed a difference of degree turns out to be one of a kind . |
| 20 | Stepan Verkhovensky 's naked transcendental ‘ They wo n't let you ’ turns out to be a very suitable preface to a logical joke about time and identity . |
| 21 | In nine cases out of ten it turns out to be the office cleaner 's milkman 's financial adviser . |
| 22 | Prudently taking cognisance of onlookers also turns out to be important in the social behaviour of other primates . |
| 23 | Why does blood seep from her son ? ’ runs the grisly ballad that tells the true story of a woman in 18th century Ireland , sentenced to death for the murder of a young gentleman who turns out to be the long-lost product of her liaison with the English gentry . |
| 24 | Three papers published recently in Science move us a little closer to understanding the basis of the disease , which turns out to be highly complex . |
| 25 | This can not be said of the colourful house , which turns out to be as likeable as its architect . |
| 26 | But in a piece where every idea is disposable , very little turns out to be memorable . |
| 27 | The prince among the four ex-presidents turns out to be Jimmy Carter . |
| 28 | Robson tires of pointing out that England always have a spare man , but unfortunately this often turns out to be Gary Stevens , an orthodox full-back , perhaps incorrigibly so . |
| 29 | The vegetation turns out to be more sparse than we had imagined . |
| 30 | Or if there is , he turns out to be impossible to live with , ’ she says . |