Example sentences of "turn [adv prt] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This output is in turn fed to a monostable made up from NAND gates IC4c , IC4d which is turned on for a period of a few milliseconds determined by the values of resistor R17 and capacitor C4 . |
| 2 | They had turned on to a side-road now . |
| 3 | Eight minutes later it was 2–0 when Des Aitcheson , scoring from close range after Neil Fullerton 's near post flick , had been brilliantly turned on to a post by the visiting goalkeeper . |
| 4 | Highlights include ‘ Allergy plight of nice-girl Nicky — ‘ one sip of vodka turns me into a sex maniac ’ ’ ( News of the World magazine ) and ‘ Women could be turned on by a chunk of cheddar ’ ( People ) . |
| 5 | Imagine getting turned on by a biker ! |
| 6 | Nor are they as turned on by a woman 's dress sense . |
| 7 | In the garden around the museum , designed by Renzo Piano , stands Barnett Newman 's ‘ Broken Obelisk ’ of 1968 , which the city fathers of Houston had turned down as a gift : it was dedicated to the memory of Martin Luther King , murdered that year . |
| 8 | If you are turned down for a grant or loan or you are unhappy with the amount given , there is no right of appeal to an independent tribunal as there used to be . |
| 9 | TRUE Brit Wayne Batterbee was turned down for a job — because he has the Union Jack tattooed on his hand . |
| 10 | Sarah Murray was recently turned down for a catwalk show because her walk was n't suitable . |
| 11 | He was turned down for an insurance policy on the grounds that he was too old . |
| 12 | A SECOND appeal against East Hampshire District Council 's refusal to allow permission for a house on land at Old School House , Crabtree Lane , Headley has been turned down by a government inspector . |
| 13 | In 1705 – 06 , a striking case , the very important Vienna embassy was vacant for months , repeatedly turned down by a series of those to whom it was offered . |
| 14 | And despite selling striker Teddy Sheringham to Tottenham last week for £2.1m , Forest are still busy searching the market for a replacement after being turned down in a £1.5m move for Arsenal 's Alan Smith . |
| 15 | After that , it too was turned in for a Qualcast with loppy handles and collapsible wheels . |
| 16 | But by nineteen ninety one , that had turned in to a deficit of a hundred million and one prediction suggests the deficit would have widened dramatically to six hundred and forty million pounds by the end of the decade . |
| 17 | You are like the prisoner who is honourably circumspect but who gets turned in by an accomplice . |
| 18 | That is nipples which are turned in like a crater , or which do not stick up by at least half a centimetre when gently pinched between thumb and forefinger from just beyond the base . |
| 19 | While the threat of wholesale destruction failed to materialize , the cathedrals were turned over to a variety of secular uses . |
| 20 | There are indications that the mill was turned over for a time for saw milling , and possibly even cider production . |
| 21 | In an open society , racism can not be turned off like a light . |
| 22 | He could n't really complain too much ; not after the time that he 'd run his patrol car into a ditch only three weeks into his new appointment , and the Middlemass girl ( 14 ) had turned up with a chain and towed him out . |
| 23 | The bridesmaid eventually turned up with a tale as long as her arm as to why , which nobody listened to . |
| 24 | With two brothers , he had turned up with a cash bid for House of Fraser . |
| 25 | An oil painting worth £12,000 and which was nicked from the Marquess of Bute in 1987 , has turned up at a car boot sale . |
| 26 | I am aware of agency nurses who have turned up at a hospital expecting to work on a ward caring for elderly people , only to be sent to work in the intensive care unit . |
| 27 | Only last week ( British Medical Journal , vol 286 , p 765 ) there was an account of two young lassies in Australia who had turned up at a health centre feeling nauseous and generally out of sorts . |
| 28 | It is significant that Phil Weston , with his imposing England Under-19 cv , has turned up as an opener alongside Curtis . |
| 29 | I think she should have played a Tour Event before an exhibition event , but then again it would n't be the first time she has n't turned up for a Tour Event would it ? |
| 30 | The sense of his living in a closed world , stylistically speaking , is beautifully conveyed when Falstaff , frustrated in his attempts to get a simple answer to a simple question , wanting to know his ‘ happy news ’ , is forced to move up to Pistol 's manner : — an effect not unlike that if W. C. Fields had turned up in a performance of Mourning Becomes Electra ! |