Example sentences of "turn [adv] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The Ford Pay claim coincides with negotiations at Vauxhall where leaders of the 9,000 manual workers have turned down a two-year offer giving 9.1 per cent in the first year and inflation plus £3 in the second . |
2 | Norwich were trailing Grant , who has turned down a new contract , last season and have maintained their interest . |
3 | Former West Indies captain Viv Richards has turned down a lucrative offer to play Currie Cup cricket for South Africa 's Western Province . |
4 | Stephen had turned down the first set of plans out of hand . |
5 | She 'd turned down the only chance she had had . |
6 | Now that the Commission has turned down the unanimous decision of the Catering Sub-Committee to invite the London food commission to give advice on how healthy and nutritious the food in the Members ' and Strangers ' Cafeterias is , what will the Leader of the House do to improve the situation ? |
7 | Manager Trevor Francis confirmed yesterday that he had turned down the huge offer from Toulon . |
8 | He has turned away the glorious light of his countenance — or maybe the traffic fumes have got in the way , or maybe he 's turned off the telly because of the charismatics . ’ |
9 | If we could have turned over a living trilobite we would have seen an array of jointed legs on the underside , and flexible antennae . |
10 | Dennis the Menace has turned over a new leaf — for a week ! |
11 | Enjoying the irony of it , and actually quite pleased to discover that Ryan had n't turned over a new leaf after all , she continued smoothly , ‘ And might I remind you , Ryan , that it was my money in the first place , not yours ? |
12 | COMIC Mike Harding saw how Middlesbrough has turned over a new leaf at the weekend . |
13 | Rudely , without waiting for him to hand it to her , she snatched it out of his hand , then anxiously turned over the scrawled papers one by one . |
14 | Dyson slowly turned over the empty pages of his diary . |
15 | We know people were treasuring this hope at the time of Jesus , because in the caves of Qumran there has turned up a messianic anthology which includes the prophecy given to David in 2 Samuel 7:14 . |
16 | Their mother had been forever running after her with a pencil box or an exercise book or a threepenny piece for church collection , and the maid had turned up a lost doll , a coin , a glove in every corner . |
17 | It was like when his Giro cheques from the unemployment people had n't turned up the last time he 'd been out of work ; it was all done to wear him down . |
18 | The man who 'd turned up the sexual voltage after their night out , only to be found embracing his secretary at precisely the time they 'd agreed to meet today … |
19 | This third and bulky fruit of Sir Ian 's otium cum dignitate ( ’ how to amuse oneself harmlessly when out of office ’ ) has turned out a curious book . |
20 | Turned out the last time the staff had seen him he was a student here and he 'd made such an arsehole of himself they 'd sworn they 'd never let him back in ! |
21 | However , if you are correcting for drift with one wing well down , and then the cable breaks , you may find that you have already turned quite a long way , and that it is easier to keep that turn going if you can not get down ahead . |
22 | And I must also add that I was a trifle put out , and surprised , because it seemed to me that he was turning down a good opportunity . |
23 | Former England coach Steve Harrison is back at Crystal Palace after turning down the assistant manager 's job at Scottish Premier Division St Johnstone . |
24 | And with Deane , you are forgetting the big guy turned down a BETTER contract at Sheff Wed to join Leeds . |
25 | That evening she turned down a prior supper engagement , pleading a headache . |
26 | ‘ I turned down a new contract at the end of the season , even though it meant getting a testimonial next year because I 've got to be playing in the Premier League to confirm my place in the Irish side . |
27 | McCreery left last month after he turned down a new contract . |
28 | Voters on Feb. 16 turned down a popular initiative to introduce drastic limits on experiments on animals . |
29 | He succeeds Jocelyn Stevens , who turned down a fresh contract , and will pick up his duties with a five-year tenure on 1 August . |
30 | But his efforts to bring more women into his administration suffered an unexpected setback when Mrs Edwina Currie , who resigned over the salmonella-in-eggs controversy in 1988 , turned down a senior position at the Home Office . |