Example sentences of "be turn [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A very large number have been turned away and told to go back home . ’ |
| 2 | So with it being conference time , we can get lots of companies who are turning up and giving conference presentations , lots of academic types . |
| 3 | Is he aware also that during that time scale many seriously ill patients had to be turned away and had to go to other hospitals and that patients using the unit had to be taken out of it prematurely so that others more seriously ill could take their place ? |
| 4 | That is , inner cities are perceived as ‘ deviant communities ’ , areas which need to be turned around and brought back into the mainstream , a mainstream that requires little or no restructuring or reform . |
| 5 | Then poor Pamela must be turned off and looked upon as a vile abandoned creature , and everybody would despise her , and justly too , Mrs. Jervis . |
| 6 | Alright alright alright , I 'm turning off and going to work . |
| 7 | The men lowered core moulds made of orange sand into the boxes , which were turned over and joined to boxes containing the other half of the moulds ( the bottom half was the drag , the top the cope — the first bit of jargon she had managed to master ) and moved forward on the track to the casting area . |
| 8 | ‘ People were turning around and going back the other way , which was extremely dangerous . |
| 9 | So nice that it would be quite awful if Mr Evans were to turn up and start shouting at him . |
| 10 | At " low " speeds ( less than 100 steps per second in the example of Fig. 4.1 ) the current is quickly established in the windings when a phase is turned on and stays near its rated value for a substantial part of the time for which the phase is excited . |
| 11 | Ireland prop Nick Popplewell ( on floor ) is turned over and dispossessed by Laurent Cabannes as his captain Phil Danaher ( left ) tries to lend a hand . |
| 12 | It is turned over and mixed in its dry state until a uniform greyish colour . |
| 13 | One response is to turn away and say that research is difficult and irrelevant and so rely on practical experience and rules of thumb . |
| 14 | All I have to do is turn up and see the applicants , ’ she said . |
| 15 | he wanted to be the decision maker , and he wanted to make the decision on every single thing himself and then he was turning round and saying to his secretary , well ca n't you do anything ? |
| 16 | Though her natural inclination was to turn round and zoom straight back again , Mildred could see that there was no escape . |
| 17 | His first impulse was to turn around and walk away , blank her out , pretend he had n't even seen . |