Example sentences of "[pers pn] turn [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since when did you turn from an ignoramus into a know-all ? ’ |
| 2 | Right colleagues , could we turn to a period of rule amendments and er general motions now . |
| 3 | Where can they turn in a crisis ? |
| 4 | Obviously I could n't follow him up to his front door , but I saw him turn into the grounds . ’ |
| 5 | She heard him turn on the tap and drink a glass of water noisily . |
| 6 | Charlotte had seen him turn in the doorway to speak to Mrs Lane , whose placid smile indicated that she knew and welcomed him . |
| 7 | Reversing the polarity of both thrusters would bring the vessel to a rapid halt ; swapping the polarity of just one of them would let it turn on a sixpence . |
| 8 | So let me turn to an issue , less Earth shattering , but no less vexatious — the keeping of mink in Shetland . |
| 9 | ‘ Yeah , watch me turn into a pumpkin any minute now . ’ |
| 10 | So let us turn from the obstacles to applying in practice the theoretical truism in the first proposition of the Plowden Committee — that ‘ there may now well be excessive social services for some purposes ’ — and consider the second proposition — that there may now well be ‘ inadequate ones for others ’ . |