Example sentences of "turn [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a roadside cottage at the end of the village ( a former toll bar ) , a narrow lane turns off the main road to the left and continues beyond a crossroads and the old railway track to start a long climb on the side of Casterton Fell and ultimately come to an end at Bullpot Farm . |
| 2 | He turns off the main drag . |
| 3 | Pots will be attractive to add instant colour and a path sweeps away under the pergola towards the rockery where it turns through a right angle in front of the rose bed , eventually ending at the vegetable plot that is neatly screened by the hedge . |
| 4 | Both partner horses whose careers took down turns after a promising start and now need to prove themselves again . |
| 5 | Turns past the familiar names . |
| 6 | Then he turns towards the wizened , worn-out figure of the 87-year-old woman sitting beside him and says : ‘ He is doing all right , there seems to be some response . |
| 7 | Three balls later Wessels ' bat appeared to collide with Kapil at the bowler 's end as the South African turned for a second run . |
| 8 | Such a page , offered to the Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York , for £25,000 , finally led to James 's arrest , as the sheet was recognised by Dr Estelle Whelan of the Centre for Iranian Studies at Columbia University , to whom the Met had turned for a second opinion . |
| 9 | Rachid 's fortunes turned for the worse , and the marriage was affected . |
| 10 | At last the tide has turned for the unsung aircraft of 1940 . |
| 11 | The RF damping control should be set so that when the transmitter pack is turned off no extraneous noise is heard . |
| 12 | It reinforced his uneasiness , however , when she lit candles on the small dining-table and then turned off the only overhead electric light . |
| 13 | An inquest on May 22 , 1990 , into the deaths of 45 people when a British Midland Boeing 737 crashed near Kegworth in December 1988 [ see p. 36410 ] returned a verdict of accidental death , discounting negligence on the part of pilot and crew ( who , amid the confusion , had turned off the functioning engine instead of the one that had caught fire ) . |
| 14 | They had been driving through Wales , to the sea , and Carrie had turned off the main road into a narrow valley and said , this was where she and Uncle Nick had lived for a while in the war , would they like to stop the night and see ? |
| 15 | But within a minute that Renault could have turned off the main road and got lost in the maze of lanes to the west of Sandwich Flats . |
| 16 | We had turned off the main passageway into a narrow corridor leading to the stairs of our room , when our way was suddenly blocked by two savage creatures who seemed to step out of the darkness . |
| 17 | The buses turned off the main road on to a forestry road running through the woods , and in a little while they arrived at their destination . |
| 18 | ‘ B/2 ’ trolley masts on which the pole could be turned through a full circle . |
| 19 | ‘ B/2 ’ type trolley masts whose heads could be turned through a full circle . |
| 20 | The trolley masts were of the Brecknell , Munro B/l type , but a late version which could be turned through the full circle . |
| 21 | ‘ B/2 ’ trolley masts with sloping caps which could be turned through the full circle . |
| 22 | The mast was of the newly designed B.T-H ‘ B.2 ’ design with a sloping cap ; its principal advantage was that it could be turned through the full circle without damaging the internal cable . |
| 23 | A fusion of these two methods is imperative for the good harmonic flow of serial music , which thereby can be turned towards a greater degree of atonalism or otherwise , at any moment , as the composer wishes . |
| 24 | Churchill put a bolder and more sympathetic face upon his speech : ‘ During the brilliant performance the P.M. 's face was turned towards the Official Gallery , and covered with one of his hands . |
| 25 | Laser beams swept like searchlights , leaving smoking trails across the rock , as blasters were turned towards the approaching Dalek Killer . |
| 26 | They have turned towards an inner contact with Christ based upon faith which has sought to bypass the historical research that sought to determine , with an accuracy previous centuries could never manage , the nature of Jesus of Nazareth . |
| 27 | Voluptuous girlfriends , sisters and mothers constantly turned against the hot dusty wind to secure their cascading glossy hair with plastic bull-dog clips . |
| 28 | 11,13 ) indeed argued that capitalism provided a most favourable environment for the growth of a rational and critical outlook which might then be turned against the capitalist social system itself . |
| 29 | The results confirmed that anti-Congress feelings in the north had not waned since November 1989 , when northern voters had turned against the central government of Rajiv Gandhi , electing in its place a National Front coalition led by V. P. Singh [ see pp. 37030-31 ] . |
| 30 | Many faiths were broken before the people became convinced of the truth of the Myrcans ’ mission , but after a while , when no Myrcan had turned against the righteous lords , and they had not tried to usurp the rule of the Dales and the Vale , then they were at last accepted . |