Example sentences of "he turn [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are stories about him turning up at parties with various bimbos on his arm — you know the kind of thing . |
| 2 | Fancy him turning up in a snivelling little place like Bethlehem . |
| 3 | His telegraph then went on " This afternoon General Robertson , Chief Administrative Officer AFHQ requested us to concur in a draft telegram to CG British Eighth Army authorising him to turn over 28,000 Cossacks ( see our 797 of October 16 , 1944 Midnight ) , including women and children to Marshal Tolbukhin , and further instructing him to turn over to Yugoslav Partisans a large number of dissident Yugoslav troops with exception of Chetniks . " |
| 4 | Now that the answer to the mystery seemed so close , why did every instinct warn him to turn away from it ? |
| 5 | ‘ Trust him to turn up on skis ! ’ |
| 6 | A deep and brooding sense of shame and failure led him to turn in upon himself , withdraw from both his wife and his son , and ultimately during 1920 and 1921 to engage in nightly excursions , disappearances designated by Sartre as " attempted suicides " . |
| 7 | I watched him as far as the corner of the curator 's garden , and saw him turn in alongside the hedge . |
| 8 | Synchronised football — Alton 's Dave Miller shows nice control as he turns away from his Fleetlands opponent . |
| 9 | As he turns away from the grave ( symbolically as well as literally ) he meets , beside the yew-tree ( traditional symbol of death ) a Girl whose appearance is strikingly unusual . |
| 10 | For having achieved his object he turns again to his other interests . |
| 11 | ( He turns upstage in time to take over the conversation with CLAUDIUS , GERTRUDE and ROS head downstage . ) |
| 12 | In fact , he turns up at the Harlem Hospital , a few blocks north , two days later , and is heckled as he walks along the wards . |
| 13 | ‘ He turns up at absolutely everything we ask . |
| 14 | He has received a card with drawings of gangsters on it and threats of a ‘ warm welcome ’ if he turns up for the second-round tie . |
| 15 | And he turned up because he turns up for everything . |
| 16 | If he turns up for court and he says , yes I had a terrible time at the police station and there were all sorts of breaches of but I am now here on a , I 'm gon na tell the truth , that 's no problem . |
| 17 | Oh no , they and he turns up in some hanging from a chain he 's being cruel to her is n't he ? |
| 18 | On the one hand he turns almost to abstraction , ‘ a vast menace of despair ’ , as also to an image of the un-existence of evil , a ‘ huge shadow ’ which Gandalf tries to send back to ‘ nothingness ’ . |
| 19 | And so he turns aside under a pine tree , lays his sword and oliphant under him and lies down to die : he makes his confession , holds up his right glove to God and angels come and carry his soul to Paradise . |
| 20 | The major question thus always remains unanswered in the Critique : every time that Sartre announces that he is about to proceed with the fundamental problem of how History can be a totalization without a totalizer , he turns back to a previous , more easily intelligible stage on the way . |
| 21 | He turns back to Howard . |
| 22 | He turns back to her . |
| 23 | He turns back to the patient , his expression gentle again — there is no trace of a professional ‘ caring ’ in his words or the jarring chord of insincere concern in his voice . |
| 24 | ‘ He wo n't get far , so if he turns left at these lights we go right , ’ says Mark , but it 's only his sense of humour showing . |
| 25 | Or if there is , he turns out to be impossible to live with , ’ she says . |
| 26 | Nine times out of 10 , however improbably , he turns out to be right . |
| 27 | He turns out to be right . |
| 28 | ‘ If he turns out to be a feeder for the kidnappers , ’ explained the Captain , ‘ he 'd be too easy to replace if we showed any interest in him . ’ |
| 29 | But he turns out to be a devastatingly good campaigner . |
| 30 | He might look 17 going on 23 but , even if he turns out to be nearly as old as he appears , it will not render the three wickets he took on his debut as void . |