Example sentences of "and turned [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He arrived at a decision , threw the cigarette away , and turned towards a small depressing row of agricultural cottages . |
| 2 | Paul is castigated and his followers are said to ‘ have abandoned the religion of Christ and turned towards the religious doctrines of the Romans ’ . |
| 3 | D'Arcy replaced the receiver and turned towards the expectant faces . |
| 4 | Bernice flashed an apologetic smile to the Doctor , and turned towards the young couple . |
| 5 | He decided against a tram and turned towards the underground station at the Wittenberg Platz , a neo-classical building complete with the purity of doric capitals and pediment . |
| 6 | She strode past the field of cows and turned up the grassy track . |
| 7 | He made his way back along the pavement and turned up the narrow path . |
| 8 | Thinking of the provocatively slow way she might later take off her shiny red boots , dark hair falling down over her placidly unconcerned face as she bent to remove them , thinking of the longer , slower flow of her otherwise quick young body as she discarded her clothing bit by bit and turned with a sudden smile of submission towards his already rumpled bed , he was also holding in to himself and caressing within himself the glass-cased ideal of a woman — a Princess — who could be worshipped without being touched by bonily clutching fingers , who could transform him without being stickied by any of his bodily fluids . |
| 9 | Lesley had begun to gather up the remaining cups , but at the mention of Charlotte 's name she put down the tray abruptly , and turned with a startled smile . |
| 10 | Marianne settled herself comfortably beside Dane , and turned with an apologetic little smile . |
| 11 | Lena Rodenko killed the engine and turned off the monotonous drone of propaganda . |
| 12 | There was much hilarity when I dived into my bag and turned off the offending breast pump . |
| 13 | He twisted the nozzle of the shower-head and turned off the hot tap , revelling in the icy needle-sharp spray stinging his body . |
| 14 | She remembered having seem a small café down one of the streets that surrounded the station and turned off the main road to find it . |
| 15 | Deuce leaned into the bath and turned on the golden taps which fed water through a central feed at a prodigious rate . |
| 16 | ‘ It appears the child copied his mother and turned on the hot water tap , ’ said police . |
| 17 | Her daughter wiped her clean , and then went over to the little table and turned on the portable television . |
| 18 | The next second he had put her under the shower and turned on the cold tap . |
| 19 | He propelled her over to the sink and turned on the cold tap , holding her hand beneath it . |
| 20 | ‘ The idea is for them eventually to be restored completely and turned into a working museum , ’ said Mr Rawlinson . |
| 21 | A group of OSF/Motif suppliers are embarking on a process to keep the graphical user interface ‘ open ’ and allay end-user fears that it could one day be hijacked by an unscrupulous vendor and turned into a proprietary superset of interface characteristics . |
| 22 | ‘ It started as a short project for an article but the whole subject took off and turned into a major research field . ’ |
| 23 | An added precautionary measure is to form Newco specially for the management buy-out rather than acquire a shelf company , because a shelf company 's accounting period may have commenced at a time when its Memorandum of Association does not reflect the relevant purpose test , for example , where a general trading company is purchased and turned into a holding company . |
| 24 | TONIGHT 'S HUMBLE bill at the Pop Club went way beyond all expectations of a fairly good evening and turned into a joyous celebration . |
| 25 | TONIGHT 'S HUMBLE bill at the Pop Club went way beyond all expectations of a fairly good evening and turned into a joyous celebration . |
| 26 | He walked down the quay and turned into a narrow cobbled street , his head bent , and his hands buried in the pockets of his overcoat . |
| 27 | React To Rhythm , Superreal , and Spooky are all a sophisticated hybrid of US and European influences , shot through with a dub sensibility and turned into a driving , expanded hypnodance sound . |
| 28 | FORENSIC experts last night tore apart a house where a teenage girl was allegedly tortured before being doused with petrol and turned into a human torch . |
| 29 | Later it may have declined to a local field access path in the thirteenth century , been re-aligned by enclosure commissioners in the eighteenth century and turned into a dual-carriage trunk road in this century . |
| 30 | She reached the busy Jamaica Road and suddenly felt depressed as she hurried across and turned into a quiet backstreet which led to her home . |