Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] turned [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I looked round very carefully but could see nothing , so I turned back on the tail of the nearest Hun , who was chasing some Hurricanes in front of him . |
| 2 | They had both of them thought that the climate of Panama would be bad for the racquets , although it turned out in the end that he could perfectly well have taken them with him . |
| 3 | ‘ You thought that if you turned up in the smart suit and with the laser-beam smile you 'd wow them into panting agreement ? ’ |
| 4 | BNFL chiefs got an injunction against U2 threatening them with arrest if they turned up at the plant gates . |
| 5 | Some of Barnet 's players did n't know about Fry 's Friday night re-instatement until they turned up at the ground . |
| 6 | This " trusted friend " ( until it turned round on the sufferer : there is a Chinese saying " First man takes drink , then drink takes drink , then drink takes man " ) was the only known method of suppressing unpleasant feelings and , although maybe no longer trusted , is nonetheless sadly missed . |
| 7 | If he turned up in the middle of Stephie 's visit , then tough ! |
| 8 | Since they turned up on the first day of term wearing headscarves , their teachers , supported by the headmaster , have refused to teach them unless the girls remove the offending headgear . |
| 9 | Myra watched them go , a happy smile on her face , before she turned back into the dressing-room to swathe the wedding gown in its covers . |
| 10 | Pascoe pictured the woman watching the man out of sight before she turned back to the phone . |
| 11 | He opened the window after they turned in to the country . |
| 12 | I should have realised that from the fact that Micky said ‘ Oh Lord ’ — an expression , incidentally , that was n't in the script of the play and that he had never used in his life — before he turned round from the Hooded Owl and looked into the wings . |
| 13 | Transfixed by the sudden intensity of his gaze before he turned back to the Empress , she was totally unprepared for what happened next . |
| 14 | Asked about his first day , Terry said : ‘ I was stunned when I turned up on the Monday only to be confronted with the aftermath of the weekend fire . |
| 15 | When I turned up at the theatre and Terry and I got changed next to each other , I frequently made a point of saying to him , ‘ Well , Terry , has the call come yet ? |
| 16 | But when I turned up at the hospital they put me on call and I was called to Casualty to anaesthetise a man . |
| 17 | The family 's maid has told how a dishevelled Spiro stopped her working when she turned up at the home the day after the killings . |
| 18 | Her grim smile was triumphant when she turned back to the open freight car . |
| 19 | Refusing the invitation to go in for coffee , Fran hurried back to the car and drove across town , only slowing when she turned in through the gates of the college and made her way along the rutted gravel path to pull up in front of the old sandstone building next to Luke 's car . |
| 20 | As she turned on to the dual carriageway that ended only a few miles beyond Naas , the rain spat against the windscreen . |
| 21 | As she turned back to the changing room , Nora caught her arm . |
| 22 | The other girl made no attempt to hide her disgust as she turned back to the books lying before her on the table , and Rory felt her spirits sink still further as she headed for the door . |
| 23 | ‘ But only because when we turned up at the solicitor 's to work out the marriage settlement — her idea , not mine — she realised for the first time that I was n't as rich as she thought . |
| 24 | Mr Smith said : ‘ I cried when they turned up at the frontier . |
| 25 | Kylie and her new Svengali Blamey got an instant glimpse of that arrogance when they turned up on the doorstep of the Hit Factory . |
| 26 | ‘ So , you 've gone to the top , ’ Buckmaster commented as they turned on to the Okehampton road . |
| 27 | Marie-Christine bit her lip as they turned on to the road leading up to the château . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm sorry you 've been lumbered with running me back , ’ Ashley said crisply , as they turned on to the road . |
| 29 | ‘ Number nine , Gracecourt , ’ he said as they turned back to the street . |
| 30 | But a minute or two later , as they turned out of the car park and headed for the road that led back to the villa , Ronni gave way to the growing desolation within her . |