Example sentences of "turn [pos pn] [noun] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lad 's Jake , every inch ; it turns my heart over , times , to see him . |
| 2 | The nineteenth-century physiologist , physicist and psychologist , von Helmholtz , who contributed substantially to every discipline that he engaged in , described the process thus : It was always necessary , first of all , that I should have turned my problem over on all sides to such an extent that I had all its angles and complexities " in my head " and could run through them freely without writing … |
| 3 | ‘ If I had spoken to anyone properly about how I felt after Hungerford , ’ he says , ‘ I 'm sure I would not have turned my problems over to the bottle . ’ |
| 4 | But now I have him in my corner it has turned my career around . |
| 5 | Now I have him in my corner and it has turned my career around . |
| 6 | Looking back , I need not have turned my nose up with such scorn when any of them approached me , as I 'm sure they did need some friendly contacts , but if one showed any signs of friendliness , they interpreted this as an invitation to attach themselves to you for the rest of the day , and probably the night too . |
| 7 | The other actors , who were now gathered around Terry 's table with jars of yellow beer in front of them , had turned their chairs around to watch me , as if I were a football match . |
| 8 | This is the reason why in recent years theorists have turned their attention back to the question of the historicity of historical understanding , to its status as interpretation , representation or narrative , and , more radically , to the problem of temporality as such . |
| 9 | In his report Prof Friel outlines development plans for the waterfront along the River Foyle , a beautiful natural asset which he claims the people of Derry have turned their backs on . |
| 10 | The company has turned its nose up at EISA as unnecessary and used its own high-speed local bus . |
| 11 | Activity in the two days following Cedric Downes 's release had hardly afforded a model of investigative collaboration , with Morse sleeping through until the late afternoon of the Sunday , then idling away most of the Monday in his office , moodily perusing the documents in the case ; and with Lewis doing the converse , making what he felt had been a fairly significant contribution to the case on the Sunday afternoon , and then spending the whole of the Monday abed , where he had lain dead to the wideawake world , and where , even when Mrs Lewis had gently rocked his shoulder at 6.30 p.m. and quietly breathed the prospect of egg and chips into his ear , he had turned his head over into the pillow and blissfully resumed his slumbers . |
| 12 | He had turned his head back to the ocean . |
| 13 | She had been following a trail Minter had turned his back on , but Harry had the photographs to keep him on course . |
| 14 | Graeme did all the cooing at first but has now turned his saucepans over to his talented young apprentice , Steve Webb . |
| 15 | He 's probably turned his toes up , or moved away . |
| 16 | She suddenly realised that fitzAlan had turned his horse back into the forest , along a parallel course with the river , but out of sight of the small hamlet . |
| 17 | Luke had turned his attention back to the other women , and none of them had attention to spare for anyone but him . |
| 18 | The elements of success which have turned our economy round are quite clear . |
| 19 | He would jerk the steering column turning my stomach over . |
| 20 | Then I am standing in Aisha 's house with its Moroccan furniture and Moroccan smell , hardly able to believe that I 'm in London , having braved the customs official who turned my passport over and over in his hands . |
| 21 | I turned my horse back , looking forward to the warmth of Templecombe Manor and feeling rather sleepy after my exertions with young Mathilda . |
| 22 | Turning her head round to see what the pain could be , Pepita had seen the spider scuttle back into the crate from which she had been thrown with the bananas . |
| 23 | The mare 's breathing was heavy and distressed and she kept turning her head round to him as if asking him for help . |
| 24 | He did not move , but his hand sought hers and he brought the soft fingers to his lips , mouthing them gently , one by one , turning her palm up to press a kiss inside it , passing his tongue lightly over the pink tips , so passive in his grasp . |
| 25 | She broke off , turning her eyes back on Mrs Alderley . |
| 26 | ‘ That is not the point of Helmut 's creation ! ’ she said loudly , stamping on his foot and turning her bum out of range of his enveloping coat . |
| 27 | In fig. 123 the violent diagonal of the hero 's body , twisting back as he throws himself across , lies over the counter-diagonal of the bull , carved in low relief on the background but it too turning its head out and back . |
| 28 | All this may be essential for a fish that would have problems turning its mouth around to defence . |
| 29 | Tightening the butterfly nuts on these magnet limpets broke the glass phials , so setting chemical time-fuses ( see Appendix 3 ) before the raiders turned their canoe back to sea on a reciprocal course for the motor launch . |
| 30 | Erlich had been on his last months in Washington when he had read the lesson , digested it , that safe folks crossed the road from danger , and did n't mind who they turned their backs on . |