Example sentences of "he turned [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He turned away towards the outside of the building , veering to the right to complete his circuit of the structure . |
| 2 | He turned away with a groan and thumped the mantle of the fireplace with his hand . |
| 3 | He turned away with a dismissive , impatient gesture . |
| 4 | She met his eyes steadily , and after a moment he turned away with a sigh . |
| 5 | It was firmly slapped from his hand by his mother , and abashed by her glare he turned away with the rest , to leave the accursed woman alone , abandoned , shunned like a leper . |
| 6 | He turned away for a few moments and I could see that he was upset by the news . |
| 7 | He turned away to the bedside table and found a souvenir sack of nickels from Las Vegas among the things he had unpacked from his pockets . |
| 8 | After that he turned away from the bed , picked up his jacket which Irina had dropped on the floor , began to put it on , then realising he had no shirt on , dropped the jacket , found the shirt and put that on . |
| 9 | Once Edouard was out of sight , he turned away from the window thoughtfully , brushing a few flecks of dandruff absent-mindedly from the shoulders of his suit . |
| 10 | As Aldous Huxley more or less said 40 years ago in The Doors of Perception , as he turned away from the exploding Red Hot Peppers : is n't alcohol a bloody awful drug ? |
| 11 | He turned away from the window abruptly , pulling himself together . |
| 12 | He turned away from the window . |
| 13 | He turned away from the sacred cow of monetarism — sort of . |
| 14 | Panic seized him and with a sudden curse he turned away from the wicket-gate of Clark 's Wharf and gestured at the others to get away . |
| 15 | He turned away from the body and looked for Fiver among the rabbits behind him . |
| 16 | ‘ We do n't stamp passports , ’ said the Immigration man huffily as he turned away from the desk and went into the little room behind that served as his office . |
| 17 | He turned away from the window , came back to the bed and sat down once again . |
| 18 | yet his apparent unconcern was belied when he turned away from the children and cupped his hands tightly together behind him . |
| 19 | He turned away from the window . |
| 20 | He turned away from the photograph . |
| 21 | He turned away from the other man and grinned crookedly in greeting . |
| 22 | One day , he thought , we shall probably know each other , and for that reason he turned away from the window , not feeling quite equal to meeting the unashamed curiosity of their glances as they came nearer . |
| 23 | So he turned away from the mirror and walked towards the weak sunlight ; she had gone out to the balcony , it was warm in the September sunshine . |
| 24 | Paddy , on the other hand was now quite composed and when he turned again to the congregation , his voice was calm although his face was deathly pale . |
| 25 | And he turned again to the view . |
| 26 | He turned also to the Baltic for timber and wood-pulp , and to the Netherlands for dairy produce . |
| 27 | You , my poor dear lady , ’ and he turned here to the other great detective , ‘ have as one says ‘ raided the vegetable garden ’ . |
| 28 | He turned instead to a more traditional style rooted in his response to landscape . |
| 29 | He built and owned ships to handle his business and made a quay at Fowey , but the port remained inadequate , and he turned instead to the creation of an entirely new port at Par , opened in 1833 , the most spacious port between Plymouth and Falmouth . |
| 30 | The hot shine must have cut to black as he was soft-footing it up the stairs , because when he turned around on the half-landing and crouched behind the angle of the banister the only light in the hall was the inward spill from the porch , and that was getting less as the door slowly closed on its hydraulic arm . |