Example sentences of "[vb past] turned [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd turned down the offers of promotion because of Emily . |
| 2 | After a while , though , when I 'd turned down the side-street where the house was I hoped ) , there were no more sounds to frighten me , and as a result of course I grew much more afraid of the stuffed , dripping silence . |
| 3 | Gurder had turned over the leadership of the Stationeri to Nisodemus . |
| 4 | However , I said I would try so I put on my best uniform , nicely pressed , and as I paraded in front of him I said I had turned up the hem of my skirt and did he think it was too short ? |
| 5 | She and Ellen between them had turned out the dining-room , giving it extra spit and polish because of Christmas . |
| 6 | Earlier that season Stewart had turned down the chance of an amateur international cap for England against Wales in order to play for Casuals against Wimbledon . |
| 7 | ‘ But I would always have regretted it if I had turned down the chance to find out whether I could make it at this level . ’ |
| 8 | The International Herald Tribune of June 29 reported that the Swedish immigration board had turned down the asylum application of a Soviet Jew for the first time in memory and that immigration officials had announced on June 28 that Soviet Jews would no longer be granted asylum automatically . |
| 9 | Chatichai had turned down the leadership of the party to which he had formerly belonged , Chart Thai , on July 2 citing old age ( he was 70 ) and political reasons . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , it was reported on June 3 that the Gulf Co-Operation Council ( GCC ) had turned down the government 's recent request for an oil loan saying that GCC states did not have enough oil to allocate to Kuwait . |
| 11 | ‘ All right , ’ I had said listlessly , disconcerting my mother considerably , since I was perfectly aware that she had expected me to turn down this preposterous proposal with as much intractability as I had turned down the others . |
| 12 | They said that James Salperton had turned down the offer of a fifth series and the producers were unwilling to continue without him . |
| 13 | Because his wife did not want to move house he had turned down the job of guarding Ted Heath in the Close at Salisbury ; he had been given Margaret instead . |
| 14 | Returning to the Maison Caressa at Nice , he persuaded the factory which had turned down the project fifteen years earlier to manufacture " a certain quantity " of 2 kilo cans of crushed tomato according to his own specification . |
| 15 | Cumberland was for the moment needed in England and after , to everyone 's relief , the discredited Field Marshal Wade had turned down the post of Commander-in-Chief in Scotland it was , on 24 December , accepted by Lieut-General Henry Hawley , known from his record as a disciplinarian as ‘ Hangman Hawley ’ . |
| 16 | But the guy who joined Cyril at that time , Cliff Barton , was a buddy of mine who lived opposite me , and who had turned down the gig with Mayall . |