Example sentences of "turn [adv prt] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Clarke said his office tried ‘ several times ’ to arrange a meeting , four months before the bombshell announcement that 31 pits were to close with the loss of 30,000 jobs , but was turned down each time . |
| 2 | ‘ And I have never turned down any woman for a job on the grounds that she might go and get married , or have a baby , thus necessitating six months ’ paid maternity leave . ’ |
| 3 | Skipper Adams was equally guarded , but said : ‘ We 're playing good football and we have n't been turned over this season . |
| 4 | By 1889 , DWEC boasted that more than 12,600 wagons had been made on the site , and 30 new ones were being turned out each week . |
| 5 | It has not turned out that way , of course . |
| 6 | So far chemical methods had failed to produce purification , and it had also turned out that matter precipitated from dirty water would not make fertilizer of great value . |
| 7 | Just sorry it has turned out this way . ’ |
| 8 | What Catriona had to hide was that she hated turning down any gift from Patrice , who was the best waitress in the place , as well as the nicest . |
| 9 | The band had a policy of not turning down any gig offer , regardless of whether playing it would be profitable . |
| 10 | Mr. Livsey : Will the Secretary of State note that British Coal Opencast has decided again to try for permission to work the Bryn Henllys site in my constituency , after an inspector turned down that application about a year ago ? |
| 11 | Other than that he showed up Giggs for the puke faced brat that he is ( all 10,000,000 and Papin worth of him — Ferguson will rue the day he turned down that offer ) . |
| 12 | The Trustees turned down this request , saying that a larger scheme at a later date would be preferable . |
| 13 | The American administration turned down this offer for fear of weakening the case for constructing the new Diego Garcia base . |
| 14 | Yorick turned down this attempt at consolation . |
| 15 | Yet in spite of these difficulties the Company turned down any chance of surrender ‘ and would be treated as brigands ’ according to the message Donald Ross brought to Hatu-Lia on 13 March — three weeks after the Japanese landed . |
| 16 | Dexter 's notebook rustled as he turned over another page . |
| 17 | On the domestic front , the General turned over more power to Pompidou than he had done before 1965 , although he did not abandon domestic politics entirely . |
| 18 | As Sir Henry related about his caddie , ‘ He never turned up that day at all . |
| 19 | Hannah also recalls this meeting , which was to have a most satisfying outcome She was surprised to learn that her meadows contained so much of ecological value and was somewhat confused at first when Mike Prosser turned up that day . |
| 20 | After leaving Fintastic , a visit to a local DIY store turned up some floor protectors for the aquarium stand to rest on , protecting the polished wood flooring . |
| 21 | In fact we turned up some gas shares on the way , but er and a bit of cash , but that was n't enough to pay the funeral accounts and she made no provision for paying any of the bills so I sold the gas shares towards paying the funeral account and then got shouted at by the er beneficiary children because I had n't consulted them about selling the gas shares and I said Well , they have to be sold because there 's bills to pay and there is no way of dealing with that . |
| 22 | A quick flip through my cookery books turned up some Italian and Middle Eastern dishes that bore a passing resemblance to what had happened on Rebecca 's plate . |
| 23 | ‘ It was this friend of yours who turned up this afternoon . |
| 24 | The car they used , stolen in Devon , turned up this morning in Gloucester . |
| 25 | apparently turned up this morning and they want a hundred pound by tomorrow , and they 're coming back tomorrow for it paying him ten pound a week and thought it was gone and he had er none so find a hundred pound by tomorrow and she did n't know where she was going to get it from , she just stood there and burst into tears and run off going on |
| 26 | perhaps if we can quickly , I mean I do n't want a lot out of Tesco 's , it will just save turning out , I do n't mind turning out this afternoon but , if the traffic |
| 27 | Today , I 'm sorry it turned out that way . |
| 28 | It turned out that radio astronomy of this kind looked at extremely low temperature regions . |
| 29 | It turned out that Morais and Bertelson obtained a significant advantage for those stimuli which appeared to come from the right side of space . |
| 30 | Credit must go to Gerald Boden and his crew who turned out this machine . |