Example sentences of "he turned [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yanto shivered slightly as he turned towards the Blue Boar 's front porch . |
| 2 | He turned towards the short passage on the left of the companionway , at the end of which lay the skipper 's cabin . |
| 3 | He turned into the still-deserted Lombard Street and up to the great stocks just before the Poultry . |
| 4 | He turned into the main road that ran parallel with the unseen river . |
| 5 | He was already thinking of what he would write to her as he turned into the main road : |
| 6 | As he turned on the hot-water tap and got out the dish detergent , Hank abandoned the idea of going back to his garage . |
| 7 | Unfortunately he turned on the wrong tap , which gave hot water instead of cold . |
| 8 | He turned on the electric fire and knelt before it , holding out his hands to the reddening bars . |
| 9 | He turned on the little electric fire , made himself a cup of fake coffee with fake milk , and under its influence thought about deception . |
| 10 | He turned on the English-speaking Arab . |
| 11 | He turned to the Saudi nightwatchman and rattled off a stream of Arabic . |
| 12 | He seemed relaxed , too , as he turned to the beaming waitress and ordered water and a carafe of wine . |
| 13 | He turned to the other staff officers who were crowding into the room . |
| 14 | and erm , they were absolutely chocker , they were really full and he said erm , I sa , he said he had n't had to fill them up at all in all the time that it 's been running , and no , I asked him if he had any enquiries and nobody stopped him and asked anything about it , and then he turned to the other lad who was beside him the sales assistant and he said no I 've had no enquiries at all , so that was it . |
| 15 | He turned to the other characteristically skeletal bronze . |
| 16 | Then he turned to the other children and clapped his hands once more . |
| 17 | Unimpressed , he turned to the private classified . |
| 18 | His eyes still seeing the charred appalling face , he turned to the young hard untouched face in front of him and said : |
| 19 | He turned to the young man who had woken him . |
| 20 | " No you were n't , you were fast asleep , and he turned to the young officer and enquired : " Did you see him asleep , Sir ? " |
| 21 | He turned to the small conductor who stood silently in the corner clutching his crumpled wad of fares . |
| 22 | For the remaining 47% he turned to the Norwegian shipping magnate Fred Olsen who coughed up a £12 million stake in the yards . |
| 23 | It might be early days but this approach falls a long way short of forging a relationship with the viewer and when he turned to the big screen to ask a reporter a single question , it came across as completely contrived . |
| 24 | Then he turned to the big original of the man Maxim remembered from the Abbey . |
| 25 | He turned to the bemused customer . |
| 26 | Mr Phil Gregory , Labour agent , said yesterday that , at the count , he turned to the beaten Labour candidate , Mr Douglas Naysmith , and said : ‘ Would n't it be ironic if you were beaten by people who had never even set foot in the constituency ? ’ |
| 27 | He turned to the paralysed man … |
| 28 | He turned to the White Rabbit . |
| 29 | He turned to the Special Branch detective behind the screen and asked whether the prosecution knew that a man was awaiting trial in Crumlin Road Prison , Belfast , because the murder weapon used at Abbey Meat Packers , Ltd. had been found in his house . |
| 30 | He turned to the Indian again , asking questions in Spanish and getting nowhere . |