Example sentences of "turn [prep] the [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 | Turns past the familiar names . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Rachid 's fortunes turned for the worse , and the marriage was affected . |
| 6 | At last the tide has turned for the unsung aircraft of 1940 . |
| 7 | It reinforced his uneasiness , however , when she lit candles on the small dining-table and then turned off the only overhead electric light . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The trolley masts were of the Brecknell , Munro B/l type , but a late version which could be turned through the full circle . |
| 14 | ‘ B/2 ’ trolley masts with sloping caps which could be turned through the full circle . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Laser beams swept like searchlights , leaving smoking trails across the rock , as blasters were turned towards the approaching Dalek Killer . |
| 18 | Voluptuous girlfriends , sisters and mothers constantly turned against the hot dusty wind to secure their cascading glossy hair with plastic bull-dog clips . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ] . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | EVEN the police in Jammu & Kashmir have turned against the Indian government . |
| 23 | A month ago Serbia 's Mr Milosevic formally turned against the Bosnian Serbs , and said he would let no more military help get through to them . |
| 24 | However , this process requires great care to get it right and not all printers are infallible — indeed , one printer I used was infallibly fallible and had to make three sets of cards when the first set were turned along the short axis and the second set were guillotined along the fold . |
| 25 | It is only now that the attention can be turned onto the actual hardware and software that will be required . |
| 26 | How could she tell this hostile man that his brother had only suggested she pretend to be his fiancée as they 'd turned into the long drive leading up to Rocamar ? |
| 27 | They certainly can not be turned into the stated goal of an academic programme . |
| 28 | Nails turned into the industrial estate roadway , and roared up the hill to the hangar-like stables at the top . |
| 29 | ‘ Why ? ’ asked Antony , with a polite interest which ten minutes later had turned into the real thing . |
| 30 | Buckingham Palace could fit inside the areas set aside for underground car-parking at the rear , where the old national football stadium has been turned into the modern equivalent of the royal stables . |