Example sentences of "turn away [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chances are that the punters only know an error has been made if the drummer decides to smirk at the guitarist , or the guitarist turns away from the audience to have a good laugh at the keyboard player . |
| 2 | Vic Brown in John Schlesinger 's A Kind of Loving ( 1962 ) settles for telly-watching inanity within marriage , while Billy Liar in the same director 's 1963 film turns away from the girl who offers him the chance to fulfil his ambitions in London . |
| 3 | If , in such a movement , the head meets a brighter light on one side than the other , the animal turns away from the brighter side . |
| 4 | Our faith turns away from the search for personal security , which we all instinctively seek when we feel threatened , and leads us to abandon ourselves to God alone . |
| 5 | The leader then turns away from the children during which time they can advance . |
| 6 | As he turns away from the grave ( symbolically as well as literally ) he meets , beside the yew-tree ( traditional symbol of death ) a Girl whose appearance is strikingly unusual . |
| 7 | The route turns away from the Ffos-y-Mynach at Waun Lodi where the path is boggy and dangerous . |
| 8 | She passes the flower over the floating corpse , turns away from the scene she ca n't bear to watch . |
| 9 | But if Bobby wanted to get in on it now , he 'd have been turned away at the door : the elitists would have laughed at him for being in an indie band and ‘ Loaded ’ might never have been produced . |
| 10 | Invited by Hawke Systems Ltd , Slough , Berkshire , to cast a glance over DEC 's Alpha boxes last week , Unigram.X was turned away at the door when DEC UK officials turned white at the mention of press . |
| 11 | Ken Connelly , 52 , who suffers from an aorta aneurysm , a problem with his main artery , was about to be operated on when he was turned away at the last minute — on two occasions . |
| 12 | Jake had turned away towards the shadows , standing with bent head and closed eyes . |
| 13 | I went along one night at 6 p.m. precisely , to be turned away by the dragon because ‘ there is no surgery to-night , as no patients have come ’ . |
| 14 | Harwich were turned away by the captain . |
| 15 | This account had it that de Castelnau was first turned away by the orderly officer , saying that on no account was the Commander-in-Chief to be disturbed . |
| 16 | There is a version of the roundhouse kick which reduces the time spent turned away from the opponent . |
| 17 | Her pale blue eyes turned away from the interviewer and towards the camera . |
| 18 | She had turned away from the food-processing factories and chemical plants spewing bilious yellow smoke to gaze towards the east , to the mouth of the Estuary where the river ran out into the North Sea . |
| 19 | Whatever the truth of it , by the end of the year Modigliani seems to have turned away from the brawling and tension . |
| 20 | Nicholson simply turned away from the great open doors that lay before him . |
| 21 | This one followed him trustingly , its interest only evaporating when it was turned away from the bar we entered . |
| 22 | Mirth being in decidedly short supply over the past few weeks amidst the myriad financial scandals and news of the ongoing long-gingering of the gay law reform bill , there was no doubt among the many disappointed punters turned away from the full house on opening night that they were still intent on partying on down at Cork 's new lesbian and gay centre , The Other Place . |
| 23 | For the chairman of the Royal Commission Labour Ministers turned away from the legal profession , appointing instead an experienced businessman and ICI director , Dr Richard Beeching . |
| 24 | Sir Harold sat still , his eyes turned away from the window , his head full of old dreams . |
| 25 | This part is usually turned away from the investigator . |
| 26 | He had been turned away from the door of a local clan chief and needed a place to spend the night . |
| 27 | In Alessio Rospigliosi had already turned away from the heavily exploited areas of classical mythology and Christian epic to open up the unpromising vein of hagiology ; he now struck an infinitely more successful one . |
| 28 | The two gentlemen looked at each other , then turned away from the house and walked on . |
| 29 | For a moment his eyes turned away from the city to the sleeping form of Madra . |
| 30 | I 'd seen Miss Mallender walking out along the pontoon to the boat and I 'd turned away from the window over the sink to 'and Mr Dysart 'is coffee when there was this great whoomph outside . |