Example sentences of "turn [adv] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back on the main road , it turns right at the junction in Gleann Beag , passing a complex of handsome farm buildings , and ascends a long incline where much-needed improvements have taken place . |
| 2 | Similar voltage waveforms apply to windings B and C with an appropriate phase displacement , so that winding C , for example , is turned on at the mid-point of the winding freewheeling interval . |
| 3 | The music was turned down at the request of a fat man who was actually trying to sleep through all the noise . |
| 4 | This is where the rim of the leather upper is turned outwards at the bottom and stitched through the midsoles to the sole . |
| 5 | But if Bobby wanted to get in on it now , he 'd have been turned away at the door : the elitists would have laughed at him for being in an indie band and ‘ Loaded ’ might never have been produced . |
| 6 | Invited by Hawke Systems Ltd , Slough , Berkshire , to cast a glance over DEC 's Alpha boxes last week , Unigram.X was turned away at the door when DEC UK officials turned white at the mention of press . |
| 7 | In order to stop the printer echo being turned off at the end of the CLI command file , the CLI is suspended with the " . |
| 8 | I 'm saying everything 's turned off at the moment , alright ? |
| 9 | The instructions warn that if the stove burns with a high yellow flame it should be turned off at the fuel valve and allowed to cool . |
| 10 | His raincoat was turned up at the collar , but not to protect him against the rain , for he always wore it that way . |
| 11 | At times the supporting leg would bend when on balance , whilst the working one was also bent with the foot turned up at the ankle during certain poses , or when performing a rond de jambe en dehors or en dedans during the pas de deux . |
| 12 | And I also said that Dr Kemp had n't turned up at the railway station when they 'd arranged for a taxi to pick him up and take him — ’ |
| 13 | The judge was told that although the girl 's father was due to appear in court as a witness , he had not turned up at the hearing because the couple now planned to marry . |
| 14 | The plan was that everyone would meet at the cottage on Boxing Day , making their own way there and hopefully bringing enormous amounts of expensive food and drink if they did n't want to be turned back at the gate . |
| 15 | He turned right at the foot of Hawthornden Road instead of left . |
| 16 | He knew the airliner would be turning right at the end of the runway and that he would be turning left . |
| 17 | Er a number of and there 's a further example which I have written to the County Senior Safety Officer about er where there is a halt pedestrians coming on to a main road where a number of vehicles er bounce the pavements to get round traffic turning right at the junction . |
| 18 | But she lowered her eyes and went quietly from the room , turning only at the door to look back , finding , as she 'd hoped , that Tsu Ma 's eyes were on her . |
| 19 | They turned in at the yard of a two-storey stone house which had a red tiled roof . |
| 20 | It turned in at the gate and came chuntering up the track to pull up beside them . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Erm , although I think we will say that that would be dangerous thing to do and that we should continue to work upon the er the assumption that there erm er overall as a n , a nine percent increase , but , that seems highly unlikely that will succeed , erm What I 've then done is take account of the various staffing changes that there have been during the year , both short term and long term , erm , and you 'll see that produces a figure actually available to us this year of twenty seven thousand five hundred and eighty eight investigative hours , erm which is slightly less than we had last year , er but erm almost not significantly so , erm and it seemed to me therefore that if we were n't trying to reduce times , er , if we were saying that we would turn in times at the end of this year which were the same as the term times we turned in at the end of last year we could probably achieve that without any further recruitment . |
| 23 | She stopped , turning quickly at the sound of brisk footsteps , then she hurried across the foyer , high heels clicking on the shiny floor . |
| 24 | She turned quickly at the sound of my footsteps on the gravel . |
| 25 | No point in turning up at the school if young Nick was n't going to be there . |
| 26 | At their first meeting , Berenson is described as ‘ a gentleman with a reddish beard ’ ; apologising for turning up at the artist 's studio unannounced , he offered the excuse that he was ‘ the person who bought all your pictures from Torrini ’ ( an antique dealer with whom Joni placed his first works for sale ) . |
| 27 | What they do n't like is turning up at the House of Commons and having to do some work , because they ca n't stand the pressure . |
| 28 | He turned up at the dance studio in a pair of very skimpy tight shorts and observing that everyone else was very white and wore towelling track suits , and seeing that he was very tall and very naked , got nervous so went for a walk and smoked a joint . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Then on Wednesday , hearses from two funeral companies turned up at the morgue to claim the body . |