Example sentences of "turn [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A gust of wind throws rain against the window and shakes the frame ; it 's loud and surprising and I flinch but he just turns slowly and looks out into the darkness with what could almost be contempt before laughing and putting an arm round my shoulder and suggesting we have another drink . |
| 2 | The Minchmoor Road turns right and drops down to Yarrowford . |
| 3 | The patient then turns backwards and lifts the normal leg onto the plinth while the physiotherapist guides the hemiplegic leg as it too is lifted up . |
| 4 | She turns away and lays a gentle finger on Rainbow 's still trembling cheek . |
| 5 | When he sees me he pointedly turns away and tries to talk to someone else . |
| 6 | Finally the road turns away and makes a long and rough descent , with Loch Hourn dramatically in view ahead , to the few buildings of Kinlochhourn where there is life but no sign of it . |
| 7 | Crilly turns over and lies with his back stiff and petulant . |
| 8 | She could hear Mrs Owen being castigated for not having turned right and left , instead of left and right , to Haematology , seeing as it was her first time . |
| 9 | At " low " speeds ( less than 100 steps per second in the example of Fig. 4.1 ) the current is quickly established in the windings when a phase is turned on and stays near its rated value for a substantial part of the time for which the phase is excited . |
| 10 | There is a kind of feedback into the black community : stories about going for a job , getting turned down and explaining the failure as caused by being black get fed back to other blacks and so nourish conceptions about the structure of society . |
| 11 | A very large number have been turned away and told to go back home . ’ |
| 12 | Is he aware also that during that time scale many seriously ill patients had to be turned away and had to go to other hospitals and that patients using the unit had to be taken out of it prematurely so that others more seriously ill could take their place ? |
| 13 | Dad just turned away and did n't reply . |
| 14 | He had turned away and tried to avoid his eye , but it had been him , no question . |
| 15 | One aircraft dropped its torpedo outside the Harbour and attempted to run it through the Harbour entrance , the fifth aircraft , unable to locate its target , returned to base with its torpedo , and the sixth aircraft , piloted by P/O Atherton , must also have turned away and retired seaward . |
| 16 | His eyes seemed to be dark with emotion , and she wanted to say something , even apologise again , but he had turned away and started the car . |
| 17 | Having instigated the new lead , the FA have turned away and allowed it to develop into an organisation in which the voice of reason struggles for a hearing . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'll make sure that I 'll bring her back in one piece , ’ André was saying , but Piers had turned away and gave no indication of having heard what was being said to him . |
| 19 | The men lowered core moulds made of orange sand into the boxes , which were turned over and joined to boxes containing the other half of the moulds ( the bottom half was the drag , the top the cope — the first bit of jargon she had managed to master ) and moved forward on the track to the casting area . |
| 20 | One side is then printed and the sheet is then turned over and printed from the other edge using the same forme . |
| 21 | Ireland prop Nick Popplewell ( on floor ) is turned over and dispossessed by Laurent Cabannes as his captain Phil Danaher ( left ) tries to lend a hand . |
| 22 | He 's turned over and started snoring . |
| 23 | It is turned over and mixed in its dry state until a uniform greyish colour . |
| 24 | Then poor Pamela must be turned off and looked upon as a vile abandoned creature , and everybody would despise her , and justly too , Mrs. Jervis . |
| 25 | To produce the latter the inner coffin was placed on to a width of lead which was then cut so as to be three inches larger all round than the coffin itself ; this was then turned up and tacked to the wood . |
| 26 | There had been a further recent development ; only a couple of days ago Herr Hamnett 's brother , another agreeable young gentleman , had turned up and collected his entire belongings . |
| 27 | Edward was not fond of Sandra ; she was a prissy little girl , always fastidiously turned out and given to exclamations of disgust and revulsion . |
| 28 | American handlers are always smart and well turned out and show their dogs to their best advantage . |
| 29 | There are other times when I 've turned back and felt ‘ gosh no , this is wrong ’ and afterwards thought why did I turn back , maybe I should have carried on . |
| 30 | ‘ When the first High Queen cheated the curse by creating the Enchantment of the Bloodline , ’ said Dierdriu , ‘ the sorceress is said to have turned back and made a curious prophecy . |