Example sentences of "turn [pron] [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nao Naomi realizes there 's no point talking about it now , the dye has been cast the decision has been made , the commitment has been entered into , whatever the cost she was going gods way , there was nothing more to be said about it we find that a de a decision made before god and we all make those decisions , means nothing at all unless were determined to carry it through , whatever the cost may be , three women here make their decisions before god , they make their choices , Naomi she chooses to return to Judah once again and enjoy the inheritance god has given her , Auper she chooses to return to her own country and her own god , as far as were concerned that 's the end of the story , but Ruth she chooses , she expresses her faith in the one true god , she turns her back on the old ways and decides to follow gods way , no matter what the cost , she would of said with Joshua , but as for me and my husband were gon na serve god , whatever the cost , I du n no what 'll be and she did n't know what she was letting herself in for , and the , I counted it , although I do n't know what it is , I counted that cost , I 'm willing to pay it and Jesus said that that is the acid test of disciples , said to count the cost and weigh it up and Ruth had done that , then to make their decision and because if we make a decision without counting the cost , without weighing it all up , like Auper you 'll go back , it wo n't last , there is that choice for every one of us day by day , who will we serve , not to be like Joshua , its for us , never for any body else , I will serve the lord because and this is the reason for it , not because you 've done nice things for me , I will be your saviour because he is god , that 's the reason for our serving god , not because he blesses us because he blesses people who do n't serve him , blessing is not exclusive to gods people , blessing , god blesses across the board , god is generous he 's gracious , he causes the rain and the sun to shine on the just and on the unjust , blessing is not the ground for serving god , but because he is god that 's sufficient reason for our committing ourselves to him . |
| 2 | Even in South Wales , it is not ali enlightenment since while Mid and South Glamorgan are positively pro-rail neighbouring Gwent turns its back on rail projects , preferring to invest in roads . |
| 3 | Burdened by hindsight , by a chronic fear of becoming bloated and self-indulgent , this indie generation tries to freeze-flame development at the point just before ‘ it all went wrong ’ , and so turns its back on the few things that went right . |
| 4 | But the 20th century showed that , whatever the distractions in other parts of the globe , America turns its back on Europe at its peril . |
| 5 | Liberal Democrats will neither support nor participate in a government which turns its back on reform . |
| 6 | A scolded cat often turns its back on its owners and haughtily refuses to look at them . |
| 7 | Mr Zacharopoulos , Documenta IX turns its back on the 1980s . |
| 8 | If that does not deter you , it drops back on all fours , turns its back on you and squirts . |
| 9 | Like Russian Formalism , Richards 's early work turns its back on positivistic scholarship , and calls for a criticism that deals directly with the distinctive properties of literature ; where he differs from the Formalists , however , is in defining these properties in terms of human experience and human value . |
| 10 | I hope that the hon. Member for Sedgefield ( Mr. Blair ) will , in the House this afternoon , condemn the antediluvian attitudes of the TGWU , which sponsors him , and which turns its back on help for the unemployed made available by the Government . |
| 11 | Others have adopted a more holistic approach but in the form of an ecological reductionism which turns its back on science and technology , stressing traditional craft means of production and prescientific knowledges , such as astrology and alchemy ( which are imbued with a deeply humanistic Utopianism — noticeably absent from contemporary science and technology ) . |
| 12 | Ecotopia turns its back on the capitalist treadmill of material progress-not by a return to pre-industrial forms and back to nature " but by developing a " high-tech " society that is designed to be compatible with the biosphere . |
| 13 | At the same time if design in both practice and theory can not be " read " as belonging to the social , the latter turns its back on it . |
| 14 | Among speakers , a new bitterness , some said the suicide was a cry of despair as the west turns its back on Lithuania . |
| 15 | He says , the wicked are like the tossing sea , and you know , as far the bible is concerned , the wicked is not necessarily the man or the woman who does terrible deeds , the wicked is not necessarily who is , who is a murderer , or a child molesterer , or a thief or or or a wife beater or something like that , the wicked is the person who rejects God , who turns their back on God , who says thank you , I can go through my life without , I do n't need you , I do n't even believe you exist , and even if I do believe you exist I 'm gon na do things my way , I 'm gon na go through life as I choose . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'll always care , but I 've also turned my back on it . ’ |
| 17 | The farm stands on a spur of moorland on the northern edge of the forest , and within 10 minutes I had turned my back on the corduroy battalions of trees and was striding under a still , cloudy sky over tussocks of rush and coarse grass , with my face to the long , bare shoulders of open hillside that flank the winding shallows of the East Kielder Burn . |
| 18 | I was lucky because I had turned my back on illusion , pursuing instead common-sense reality . |
| 19 | Although the writers discussed here have all turned their back on mimetic realism , they have not abandoned the issue of how their fiction relates to the external world . |
| 20 | Many of them have had their terms and conditions reduced , some have been dismissed and they now have no one to turn to as they have turned their back on the Trade Union which is their only guarantee of protection ’ . |
| 21 | The couple have not turned their back on their Catholic faith . |
| 22 | The issue here is quite simple , Labour have consistently turned their back on any closures , that 's fair enough , so you would n't expect them then to produce figures which demonstrate that they 're right . |
| 23 | Well my there 's never any please , there 's never any thank you , there 's nothing , I mean there are are n't they , when he was saying that all he 's done for her and they virtually like turned their back on them , he got out in all those winds and weather were n't it , but , we built there and he come out apparently and said I do n't want you having anything else to do with my kids , |
| 24 | SINGER Whitney Houston , whose first film Bodyguard is set to become a smash hit , has turned her back on movie stardom . |
| 25 | First Benny had turned her back on him in public and told him to go home without her after he had driven up especially to collect her . |
| 26 | ‘ It is n't that Constance is naughty , or has tantrums , ’ she said to her cousin on the telephone , ‘ it 's as if she has just turned her back on me . |
| 27 | She had turned her back on her upbringing , but it did n't matter how many times she told Vicky . |
| 28 | She had turned her back on the lot of them , and married Frederick Bissett , from a terraced house in Leeds , bright boy of the street . |
| 29 | Harry glanced swiftly at Madeleine , but she had turned her back on him so he was unable to see her reactions to father 's comments . |
| 30 | Why else would she have turned her back on Johnny ? |