Example sentences of "[pers pn] turned [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I turned round in the tent mouth and sat down with my feet outside to take off my boots . |
| 2 | When I turned up at the theatre and Terry and I got changed next to each other , I frequently made a point of saying to him , ‘ Well , Terry , has the call come yet ? |
| 3 | I turned up at the Comedy Store here in London one night , petrified , because in those days it was a pretty testing place with a drunk , unruly audience . |
| 4 | But when I turned up at the hospital they put me on call and I was called to Casualty to anaesthetise a man . |
| 5 | ‘ I turned up at the party pretty much at the start , I think , around a quarter to nine . |
| 6 | ‘ There was the time I turned up at the Arts Lab ( first and last time ) to see the Dylan film and could n't afford it . |
| 7 | Asked about his first day , Terry said : ‘ I was stunned when I turned up on the Monday only to be confronted with the aftermath of the weekend fire . |
| 8 | ‘ I turned up for the interview , amid all these Bond beauties , in my tight black jersey dress on a really hot day , with false nails and false eyelashes sliding down my face , ’ Julie recalls with a smile . |
| 9 | I turned off to the right through the row of trees , and just as I was meandering past thy rhododendrons I shouted , ‘ Hell and damnation ! ’ |
| 10 | I turned off to the right . |
| 11 | But this was an A-road and I wanted to keep mainly to the minor routes , so half-way up I turned off behind the Ponderosa Cafe and joined the Old Horseshoe Pass . |
| 12 | I turned back towards the crowd . |
| 13 | Frightened , I turned back towards the boats , but the figure appeared again and moved with the speed of an animal . |
| 14 | I turned back to the harbour to wait for him to go away . |
| 15 | I turned back to the phone . |
| 16 | I looked round very carefully but could see nothing , so I turned back on the tail of the nearest Hun , who was chasing some Hurricanes in front of him . |
| 17 | After crossing several fields I turned down to the right to follow a metalled road for a while until I reached the first real treat of the day , the Roman road . |
| 18 | She turned over on the bed and sat up . |
| 19 | Hoping that nothing had gone wrong with the course of her friend 's romance , she turned around on the piano stool as she heard hard , firm footsteps walking along the terrace . |
| 20 | As she turned on to the dual carriageway that ended only a few miles beyond Naas , the rain spat against the windscreen . |
| 21 | But actually it does n't tell you anything about the quality of the care which they 're purchasing and the evidence that we are getting increasingly from the community health council is the experience of people of the health service is that actually the quality of the care is getting worse and this is not due to the staff in the health ee the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the e the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the for an operation er , four years , it should to be said er , she 's been waiting despite the government 's claim that all operations are done within two years er for very severe varicose veins and surprisingly enough she got them because of course most varicose have been removed her , the north-east Thames region erm , and er she turned up on the Wednesday and the operation had been postponed twice previously er , she was er gone through all the er , various tests which took her four hours cos she had to find all the places herself , there was nobody to show her to X-ray and various other places erm she was prepared for the op and then was sent home because there was n't a bed available ! |
| 22 | One day she turned up with the Raleigh bike because she was worried that I did n't get out much . |
| 23 | She turned up at the Café Dôme one night , her beautiful dress torn to shreds . |
| 24 | The family 's maid has told how a dishevelled Spiro stopped her working when she turned up at the home the day after the killings . |
| 25 | Carefully she turned in through the wide hospital gates . |
| 26 | Refusing the invitation to go in for coffee , Fran hurried back to the car and drove across town , only slowing when she turned in through the gates of the college and made her way along the rutted gravel path to pull up in front of the old sandstone building next to Luke 's car . |
| 27 | At the end she turned off to the right and there was I with nothing to look at . |
| 28 | Desperately , she turned back towards the room and tried to apply her mind to more practical matters . |
| 29 | She turned back towards the kitchen and the dogs ' suppers . |
| 30 | She turned back into the bed as a sound came from old Donald 's mouth . |