Example sentences of "turn [adv prt] [art] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mitchell , who had turned down a place in Scotland 's team for the world cross-country trial to concentrate on his marathon commitments , clocked 2hr 21min 56 sec . |
| 2 | And there is a good account of the infamous Nixon/Kennedy TV debate when Kennedy 's aide even turned up the heat in Nixon 's dressing-room to make him sweat more . |
| 3 | Again this hope seems set against the tides of history , but again we can not be certain that a positive policy of Empire and tariffs could not have turned back the tide in 1902 or 1912 . |
| 4 | The manager who took Sunderland to Wembley six months ago knows that he 's still not out of the woods , but he has turned back the clock in a bid to stay in business . |
| 5 | He turned down a job in a famous public school and wrote to Aunt Lilian , a long , very high-flown letter , saying that he believed social segregation in education to be totally wrong and that he could have no part in perpetuating it . |
| 6 | ‘ Some Americans wanted to open up the Spurling yard , and offered big money to the Borough Council , but that useless lot — that bunch of pen-pushers — they turned down the offer in favour of the Japanese . |
| 7 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton , the education minister , had been considering an appeal for support but turned down the college in December . |
| 8 | Carew turned over a page in the file , pretending he had not heard . |
| 9 | Other useful scavengers are the many kinds of tiny shrimps which can be found by simply turning over a rock in any reef tank . |
| 10 | Some people stumble across the Kingdom without looking for it , like discovering a hidden treasure while turning over the soil in the field ( Matt. |
| 11 | For the same reason the doctor , medical attendant , or other who turned off a ventilator in this situation would be guilty of murder . |
| 12 | The conversation then started to get interesting and we turned up the volume in London . |
| 13 | Bishops then turned up the pressure in a search for an equaliser , and it nearly came on seventy minutes as yet another debut man , Tommy Callanan blasted the ball against the underside of the ball from literally yards out when it was easier to score . |
| 14 | Swindon turned up the heat in the last 10 minutes to score 2 more . |
| 15 | ‘ hooligans on housing estates causing disturbances in the common parts of blocks of flats , blockading entrances , throwing things down stairs , banging on doors , peering in at windows , and knocking over dustbins ; groups of youths persistently shouting abuse and obscenities or pestering people waiting to catch public transport or to enter a hall or cinema ; someone turning out the light in a crowded dance hall , in a way likely to cause panic ; rowdy behaviour in the streets late at night which alarms local residents . ’ |
| 16 | Equally remarkable , Mr Welch has won his kudos not by turning around a firm in trouble but by matching the performance of his predecessor , Reginald Jones , who doubled sales and tripled profits in eight years . |
| 17 | It is extremely likely that some of these detected features will not be present in the target , and so the detection of these non-target features in the mask will , via the inhibitory links from feature to letter level , turn off the activation in the target letter 's detector . |
| 18 | Next day , turn out the meat in its jelly and eat it . |
| 19 | Management and employees at Waterford Crystal have tried long and hard to turn around a company in severe difficulties but everyone realises that the process will not be complete until we generate an adequate return on investment . |
| 20 | A FLURRY of legal proceedings will this week turn up the heat in the already simmering Timex dispute in Dundee . |