Example sentences of "he turn [art] [noun sg] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He turns the voice off , a remedy still available to him , but for how long ? |
| 2 | He turned a pencil over and over between his fingers . |
| 3 | He turned every conversation round to himself . |
| 4 | Then he turned the gas off and poured the contents of the pan into the big metal bin which seems to be compulsory in vegetarian kitchens and which always contains enough mushy peas to drown a Rugby League team . |
| 5 | He turned the coin over . |
| 6 | He turned the music up a little louder , to cover it . |
| 7 | He turned the vehicle round in the drive and drove off . |
| 8 | He turned the canoe back in , using the full power of those arms to bring them rapidly towards shore . |
| 9 | By the end , he acted as if he 'd said nothing to me at all earlier about being worried , being followed and everything and he turned the conversation round to me and my future . |
| 10 | Picking up the remote control , he turned the TV on to video . |
| 11 | He turned the newspaper over so that he could not see that headline and those paragraphs . |
| 12 | He turned the bread over to grease its upper side , then climbed on a stool to cut another thick wedge from the loaf . |
| 13 | He turned the clock back to 1926 in his south Armagh centre hostelry , and sold drinks at pre-war prices — pints fivepence , and shorts threepence — for a whole afternoon ! |
| 14 | He turned the corpse over on its stomach and pointed to a great ugly bruise at the base of the spine . |
| 15 | He turned the knob back to pop music , turned the volume down to almost nothing , began talking to Evelyn . |
| 16 | When he had filled that side , he turned the page over and continued to make notes , completely disregarding the pencil sketch that had been begun . |
| 17 | The boy left the room and on the way he turned the light on . |
| 18 | He turned the light out as the clergyman left the room . |
| 19 | He turned the light down on her ; there she was , her face bending into shadow , as though Latour had painted its waxiness . |
| 20 | Now he turned the sound down and watched the action on the screen . |
| 21 | He turned the block over to ‘ train online ’ , warned it on to Bradley Fold Station and pulled his signals off . |
| 22 | When Gareth lived with us before he got married he turned the bath on and walked away and left it . |
| 23 | Ruth let him take it , and sat drinking her tea while he turned the cup over and over in his hands , gently and half absentmindedly . |
| 24 | He turned the figurine over . |
| 25 | Within a few years the increased prosperity of the yard had so impressed John Shuttleworth that he turned the business over to him . |
| 26 | He turned the paper over . |
| 27 | He turned the paper over and put it back on the top of the pile . |
| 28 | He turned the oven on to 250 and put the okra and the edenwort on to a low heat . |
| 29 | Once the engine caught , he turned the car round and drove back into Adam 's Creek , population 2,200 , elevation 21 metres . |
| 30 | At one stage he turned the car round and rammed a following police car , nudging it aside . |