Example sentences of "turn [adv prt] [prep] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He applied to join the Oratorian Congregation newly formed by John Henry Newman ( later cardinal , q.v. ) , but was turned down in March 1847 . |
| 2 | Having left Scratchwood a few moments after the other vehicle , the mustard-coloured van , its roof rack carrying a decorator 's ladder , also turned off at Junction 4 , but then picked up the Uxbridge road before turning south towards Harrow-on-the-Hill and the home of Beth and Ali Christie . |
| 3 | Mr. Maton had worked for many years as a solicitor 's clerk , he had not turned up for work that day , the young man sent to check the reason had found Mr. Maton dead in the kitchen , the small loaf collected on his way home from work the previous evening still in its wrapping on the table . |
| 4 | Although 45 tonnes of food supplies sent by the United Nations Children 's Fund ( UNICEF ) had arrived from Nairobi by air on Feb. 29 , a ship carrying supplies from the UN World Food Programme was turned back on March 3 and 5 from the docks at Mogadishu due to shelling . |
| 5 | This invitation was , however , turned down on Jan. 5 . |
| 6 | After the unit was commissioned and turned over to Sabah Electric , TES was contacted by Dr Jamaludin Bin Dato Jarjis , managing director of Time-Epe and also member of the Malaysian parliament , to voice his extreme satisfaction with the entire project . |
| 7 | A vengeful Mrs Wallace Reid turned over to police all the names of those she believed had been responsible for Wally 's debauched lifestyle . |
| 8 | He remembered her in the old days , singing at parties for hours and then turning up for rehearsal next day without any sign of strain or tiredness in her voice . |
| 9 | As BR and union leaders tried to resolve the problem of finding new jobs for the teams , the men turned up for work each day at Liverpool 's Central Station and simply sat in their vans for eight hours a day . |
| 10 | In October and November the raids were taking place nearly every night , but in spite of the disturbed nights almost everyone turned up for work next day . |
| 11 | To be fair , the diagram turned up on page 45 and , anyway , the Alpha 2.0 proves straightforward enough when it comes to hooking up to a power amp , combo or mixer . |
| 12 | He was rather like a 12-inch gun with no gunlayer ; he always turned up to meetings late and disoriented , although he had a middle-aged secretary who used to follow him about with his diary and try to keep him in line . |
| 13 | At Old Street , I passed the Gym ‘ n ’ Tonic health club — I 'd been a member there until an embarrassing incident one evening in the female jacuzzi — then turned up towards Islington proper . |
| 14 | The same overproduction ethos , that of turning out in principle reproducible cultural goods based on unskilled labour , and to which meaning can only be implausibly attached , underscores his 1978 ‘ Oxidation ’ series , in which aleatory colour schemes are created through Warhol urinating on bronze- or copper-covered canvases . |
| 15 | In a year without a presidential contest , in elections that were merely primaries — and mainly for local offices — around 45% of registered voters turned out on March 20th . |
| 16 | DUBLINERS turned out in strength last night to show their abhorrence of the IRA 's violence and to demonstrate solidarity with the bombing victims of Warrington . |
| 17 | ON A rugged hill track overlooking the former car plant at Linwood , Scottish motoring journalists turned out in force last week to put the latest version of a motoring legend through its paces over some very nasty terrain . |
| 18 | However , the ship turned back on March 11 after coming within two miles of Indonesian territorial waters . |
| 19 | D J LONG TURNS UP AT ROSH INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS |
| 20 | The resulting price and output combination for this period ( 1 ) is unc — price is set equal to short-run marginal cost SMC , and , it turns out in figure 4.1 , is less than long-run marginal cost . |
| 21 | Right , now turn down to number one . |
| 22 | And if you turn over onto page four , and at last pick up both the graph and the figures that are shown there and if it helps members , I can also put up the figures on the I suspect not , I think there 's , it becomes a little small for people . |
| 23 | From the M4 , turn off at junction 26 and take the A4042 to Pontypool , then the A4043 to Blaenafon . |
| 24 | Socialist leaders called last night on ‘ all those who support the forces of progress ’ to turn out in force next Sunday to prevent an overwhelming a conservative victory which , they said , would be dangerous for France . |
| 25 | I turn back to page one . |
| 26 | People turn out on Sunday small . |
| 27 | I just do n't turn up for lectures that often . |