Example sentences of "he turn [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He turns up the Holloway Road , with its rows of pubs for men a long way from home . |
| 2 | In one letter to Susanna Highmore , he turns down the offer of a sonnet to be prefixed to Leapor 's second volume : |
| 3 | When I told him I could not come he turned up the collar of his coat and walked away , looking at the pavement beside the unlit shop windows , hands deep in his pockets , and passed into the night going towards the Bridge of Three Eyes . |
| 4 | He turned up the heater . |
| 5 | He turned up the volume loud , turned the knob to atmospherics , walked quickly to the window . |
| 6 | He turned over the page . |
| 7 | He turned over the facts again and again in his mind until their monotonous repetition affected him like a dull , nagging pain . |
| 8 | It was a fatal move , of course , because when he turned back the leprechaun had gone . ’ |
| 9 | As he turned back the coverlet of the bed where he must sleep alone , Frere consoled himself with the thought that what he was incapable of accomplishing himself might be accomplished for him by time and that providential hand , of which , in his earnest efforts outside the home , he was the faithful instrument . |
| 10 | He turned down the alley which led to the Incident Room . |
| 11 | He turned down the cover and peeped at the baby 's heads . |
| 12 | He turned down the blankets and Willie climbed in between the sheets . |
| 13 | ‘ He turned down the part I offered him then — which was the best thing he ever did . |
| 14 | He turned down the lamp and wondered how he was going to get in without wakening her ; when suddenly she started up , crying out with despair , fighting to be free of the blankets . |
| 15 | I am employing the kind of argument that has been used to resist demands that God prove Himself by miraculous interventions of some form — demands that in Christian tradition Christ himself refused to satisfy when he turned down the Pharisees ' request for a ‘ sign ’ and asked that they have faith instead . |
| 16 | Early in his career he turned down the title role in David Lean 's Lawrence of Arabia ( eventually played by Peter O'Toole ) after producer Sam Speigel insisted he sign a long-term picture deal . |
| 17 | ‘ Enjoyed our first day serving King and country , ‘ ave we ? ’ asked the duty corporal of his charges , when at twenty-one hundred hours he turned down the gas lights in the barrack room . |
| 18 | As he turned down the passageway Ian wondered just how true that would turn out to be . |
| 19 | On his death the people of Clermont elected the comes Genesius , but he turned down the office , because , as a layman , he regarded the appointment as uncanonical . |
| 20 | Even lesser known men were received with open arms and , in some cases , cheque books : when the Rev. J. A. Macfadyen went to America to ‘ supply ’ the pulpit of Brooklyn 's Central Congregational Church he was offered a church in Chicago at the princely stipend of £2,000 — over £60,000 today — but he turned down the offer . |
| 21 | The room was hot when he entered , and he turned down the thermostat on the wall . |
| 22 | The morning air was sharp and bracing as he turned down the avenue . |
| 23 | To prove this , he turned down the role of the American archaeologist in Ingmar Bergman 's The Touch , because the shooting would coincide with the birth of his child . |
| 24 | His eyes lingered a dry moment on mine , as if to make sure I took the implicit compliment ; and then , as if to limit it , he turned out the lamp . |
| 25 | As he turned out the gas jet he whistled to himself . |