Example sentences of "turn in [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A window that turns in upon the pane ,
2 Before turning in for the night I telephoned Fred Workman to say I would be back at my desk by mid-morning and would be covering the visit of Mr Gladstone Murray to our city , his meetings and his broadcast speech , for the next day 's evening edition .
3 Afraid she might doze off if she gave in to temptation and lay down on the bed , she sat down instead on the room 's only chair , and picked up a book , absorbing not a single word as she waited for the sounds that would mean he was turning in for the night .
4 Turning in for the night .
5 He was heading for the North Sea coast , which he would cross near Terschelling then follow for a while before turning in for the approach to Aalborg .
6 They turned in at the yard of a two-storey stone house which had a red tiled roof .
7 It turned in at the gate and came chuntering up the track to pull up beside them .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 He opened the window after they turned in to the country .
11 We reached the gateway and turned in under the adobe arch with the name Hda LUCINDA plaster-embossed in large letters .
12 It was ten o'clock when he turned in between the lodge gates and guided the Porsche down the winding drive to Tavey Grange .
13 This news set Berwick in a stir of even greater activity , especially when , that same afternoon , a fleet of ships appeared off the mouth of Tweed , coming from the south , and turned in towards the port .
14 The cigarette , tip turned in towards the palm , is brought down from the mouth in an exaggerated arc and held behind the back .
15 Cos if you g if anybody go down there now they could see where what we call the Pier Head , so ships had to go up there and turn in to the lock gate .
16 You turn in to the right .
17 As I turn in to the book of Genesis I read there of God coming to Abraham , and saying to Abraham , that Abraham in your family all the nations of the world are gon na be blessed !
18 The kitchen door stood open revealing a strip of bumpy grass and yellow sandy gravel wide enough for a coach and four to turn in between the House and the stable block .
19 He did not turn in at the door of number thirty-seven , however .
20 and after you 've gorged yourself on all the fun and nightlife that Benitses has to offer , you can turn in for the night and leave it all behind .
21 ‘ I thought I 'd turn in for the night . ’
22 I watched him as far as the corner of the curator 's garden , and saw him turn in alongside the hedge .
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