Example sentences of "[coord] turned [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul is castigated and his followers are said to ‘ have abandoned the religion of Christ and turned towards the religious doctrines of the Romans ’ . |
| 2 | D'Arcy replaced the receiver and turned towards the expectant faces . |
| 3 | Bernice flashed an apologetic smile to the Doctor , and turned towards the young couple . |
| 4 | He decided against a tram and turned towards the underground station at the Wittenberg Platz , a neo-classical building complete with the purity of doric capitals and pediment . |
| 5 | She strode past the field of cows and turned up the grassy track . |
| 6 | He made his way back along the pavement and turned up the narrow path . |
| 7 | Lena Rodenko killed the engine and turned off the monotonous drone of propaganda . |
| 8 | There was much hilarity when I dived into my bag and turned off the offending breast pump . |
| 9 | He twisted the nozzle of the shower-head and turned off the hot tap , revelling in the icy needle-sharp spray stinging his body . |
| 10 | She remembered having seem a small café down one of the streets that surrounded the station and turned off the main road to find it . |
| 11 | Deuce leaned into the bath and turned on the golden taps which fed water through a central feed at a prodigious rate . |
| 12 | ‘ It appears the child copied his mother and turned on the hot water tap , ’ said police . |
| 13 | Half in panic , half in the laughter of release , she turned and turned on the same spot . |
| 14 | Her daughter wiped her clean , and then went over to the little table and turned on the portable television . |
| 15 | The next second he had put her under the shower and turned on the cold tap . |
| 16 | He propelled her over to the sink and turned on the cold tap , holding her hand beneath it . |
| 17 | She stumbled back and turned into the reaching arms of a man-shaped thing that was coming down on her . |
| 18 | The race was really on now , and as the quartet came away from the third last and turned into the straight Desert Orchid suddenly had a fight on his hands — not from Ten of Spades , who had exhausted himself in drawing the grey 's sting and now fell heavily at the second last , but from Toby Tobias and Norton 's Coin . |
| 19 | Constance scrambled back into the hedge and hid as the Daimler nosed out of the drive and turned into the main road , away from her , towards Alnwick . |
| 20 | The light was almost gone when the white Mercedes came slowly along the road and turned into the open gate under the yew tree . |
| 21 | Her plan was doomed to failure ; they drove to the outskirts of Solihull and turned into the underground garage belonging to a newly built block of flats that were the last word in luxury , according to the advertisement she had seen . |
| 22 | This corresponds to the stage of maturity in the individual 's development where he or she ‘ has renounced the pleasure principle , adjusted himself to reality and turned to the external world for the object of his desires ’ . |
| 23 | He slammed his fist down angrily on the console and turned to the twinkling carrying case . |
| 24 | The girls rose stiffly in the green shade and turned to the sunlit meadow . |
| 25 | Corbett stopped his horse and turned to the startled Ranulf . |
| 26 | Setting the briefcase back down , she dug the notes out of the pocket and turned to the last page , smiling rather nastily . |
| 27 | ‘ But there is n't really any choice , ’ said Fenella , firmly , and turned to the ornate silver door at the far end of the room . |
| 28 | Suddenly she thought how ridiculous they all looked dressed up in their best clothes and squabbling like children ; and feeling quite calm she drew herself up and turned to the Portuguese gentleman . |
| 29 | Having coded the behaviour , a simple pairwise correlation analysis for 50 variables gives a matrix of 1225 unique combinations to mull over : a psychological Rubik cube to be twisted and turned in the grim hope that some sort of pattern will emerge . |
| 30 | touched and turned by the everlasting sun . |