Example sentences of "turn [adv prt] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Arundel trainer had felt an April fool when his first two runners of the campaign — including an odds-on shot — were turned over at Brighton on Thursday . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've lost four games , but have n't been playing that badly , whereas last season we got turned over at Aston Villa and Everton . |
| 3 | She must 'ave turned off at t'top of your other path . |
| 4 | Having left Scratchwood a few moments after the other vehicle , the mustard-coloured van , its roof rack carrying a decorator 's ladder , also turned off at Junction 4 , but then picked up the Uxbridge road before turning south towards Harrow-on-the-Hill and the home of Beth and Ali Christie . |
| 5 | Do n't be a Chocolate Teapot , melting away when the heat 's turned up at school ; stand up for God and know that he loves you enough to help you through each day , however hot it gets . |
| 6 | However the Earl John had duly turned up at Edinburgh , with one hundred and fifty men and the information that the enemy had passed well to the east of Doune . |
| 7 | passing the questioning to the Mountie bridged the void neatly , and the Mountie told us that the reason that Steve , Angelica 's business manager , also her lover , had not turned up at Toronto station was because he too was dead , struck down in his apartment by blows to the head with a mallet . |
| 8 | They had never been able to like Sean Walsh , not since the very first day he had turned up at Benny 's tenth birthday party . |
| 9 | A larger crowd than normal subsequently turned up at Cardiff to see if Gover 's cure had worked , and Griffin sent down 18 blameless overs but failed to take a wicket . |
| 10 | ‘ These people have turned up at competitions and disrupted them by throwing things into the water . |
| 11 | He not only met them off trains , got taxis , and frequently turned up at theatres to see how they were getting on , but would also dip into one of his baskets and present each Girl with a bar of chocolate . |
| 12 | The couple had turned up at Gatwick airport to discover that Mark , who is blind , had packed their bank books instead of passports . |
| 13 | We met in Bologna and while discussing the painting I informed him that the original had turned up at Wildenstein 's in New York , and had recently been sold to a New York private collector and that an article of mine was in proof , publishing the New York picture as the original . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , the company 's vice president of sales , Charles DeVita , has turned up at Mountain View , California-based Consilium Inc as vice president , worldwide sales and service . |
| 15 | On Monday morning Doone had turned up at Shellerton House with the plank . |
| 16 | In the recessionary 1970s , most governments were turned out at elections or saw their share of electoral support fall . |
| 17 | The musicians are paid a pittance , eat out on the street at night and pay for floor space to sleep in a garage until they are turned out at dawn . |
| 18 | The almost innumerable Goblins ravaged a large tract of Yvresse and were barely turned back at Tor Yvresse by the heroic efforts of Eltharion . |
| 19 | The presence of immigration officials and police on board trains is comparable to the scenes of 1930s America where migrant labourers were turned back at state boundaries . |
| 20 | With the border opening looking increasingly doubtful in the week preceding Aug. 13 , members of several South Korean dissident groups attempted to make their own way to Panmunjom but were turned back at police roadblocks . |
| 21 | Reports reached rally organisers that 1,000 Muslims were turned back at Gotse Delchev on their way to Sofia . |
| 22 | The car turned in at Brier Cottage and Ben climbed out . |
| 23 | Strikingly patterned , longer-legged than Snipe , with shorter bill turned down at tip . |
| 24 | On the way to Whitby and the first hostel , we turned off at Skinningrove , a steel-producing town that looked exactly like a slice of Newcastle 's backstreets scooped up and set down on the rugged coastline . |
| 25 | Andy alias GG , Margaret-Nora , Phil-Dame Edna and Graeme-Rab raised over £400 for research into breast cancer by turning up at work the following day in disguise . |
| 26 | She imagined herself turning up at Alan 's bedside with an armful of freesias and went hot all over . |
| 27 | Today he is more of a celebrity than an actor , making cameo appearances , commercials and turning up at premières . |
| 28 | His turning up at Brighton had , given the occasion of the debate on immigration , an almost vulture-like quality . |
| 29 | A Mum and Dad who 'd known vaguely for a long time that Conor liked holding parties were suddenly being told over cups of tea and Hobnobs about vast acid house raves in the middle of fields , about police chases across whole counties , about an entire organisation that Conor had run ( Conor had run an organisation ? ) , which could call a party and have 5,000 people turning up at £20 a ticket within 48 hours . |
| 30 | There are stories about him turning up at parties with various bimbos on his arm — you know the kind of thing . |