Example sentences of "they turn [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mystery deepened when , instead of going seaward at the foot of the hill , they turned up the right bank of the Touques as if making for Deauville . |
| 2 | They turned up the next street . |
| 3 | They turned up the heat and the United defence started to cook . |
| 4 | In the nineteenth century , they turned around the idea that women 's place was in the home to argue that motherly values should be extended beyond it . |
| 5 | Then they turned out the lights , the great brass chandelier with its false candles , and the moon 's lemony radiance lay as still as cloths draped over the shining wood . |
| 6 | Trusting virgins drafted into marriage never found Nature had all the answers when they turned out the light . |
| 7 | ‘ They turned out the lights , which would slow the snake down , so they could pick it up without it biting , and they shut the sliding doors behind them . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Some Americans wanted to open up the Spurling yard , and offered big money to the Borough Council , but that useless lot — that bunch of pen-pushers — they turned down the offer in favour of the Japanese . |
| 9 | They turned down the offer of free council flat in a city where 2,000 people are on a long-term homeless list . |
| 10 | But after magistrates heard from the pig centre and from the RSPCA , they turned down the application . |
| 11 | Maybe someone will draw curtains across the frosted glass before they turn up the disco tape . |
| 12 | Why then do their minds go blank as soon as they turn over the question paper ? |
| 13 | ‘ People who can must start over Christmas by getting out of their seats and using the switch when they turn off the TV , ’ said FoE energy campaigner , Mr Simon Roberts . |
| 14 | But they 're worried that if they turn down the property they may not get another . |
| 15 | The cap that happened to get overlooked returns the reader 's gaze blankly yet unavoidably , like the bill from a restaurant abroad which the conspirators find when they turn out the dead man 's pockets , and like the child 's clay whistle which one of them has provided himself with to give the agreed signal — for he has lost so many teeth that he ca n't trust himself to produce the sound naturally . |
| 16 | Oh well you know peo people that throw their clothes around and untidy , they turn out the best of people . |