Example sentences of "turned [prep] [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They could hear the sound of music coming nearer , and everyone turned as a silver band came round the corner into the main dusty street , men dressed in grey trousers and pink shirts , their instruments glistening in the morning sun . |
| 2 | They turned off the B road at the junction and drove down the narrow track to the cottages . |
| 3 | She removed it with her fingers , then she went and turned off the kitchen light and sat slowly swinging . |
| 4 | Quickly he reached out and turned off the night lock . |
| 5 | I turned off the plug bit . |
| 6 | He threw down the knife , turned off the gas ring and stamped down the hall . |
| 7 | Irritably — she really wanted that cup of tea ; she was growing as bad as the British — McAllister turned off the gas ring , blew out the match , and walked to the front door , grumbling to herself , Hold your horses , I 'm coming , I 'm coming , when another urgent series of knocks sounded . |
| 8 | She turned off the gas fire — must save the Calor gas ! — and the lights and followed him out onto the landing , locking the door behind her . |
| 9 | Buckmaster asked as Morgan turned off the Okehampton road and drove through the snow towards Moretonhampstead . |
| 10 | He approached the Cheetah and spoke to its pilot , who was still in his seat and conscious ; the instructor turned off the master switch and instructed the pilot to turn off the fuel cock . |
| 11 | Harry turned off the car engine and wound down the window . |
| 12 | Research turned towards the policy process itself , to the people who took the decisions and to the local political institutions in which they operated . |
| 13 | First , in May , 1943 , as the tide of war turned against the U-boat wolf packs , a smaller group of British heroes struck deep into German territory . |
| 14 | To this end , he had not even considered packing anything that could remotely be considered seaside wear , and as a result suppressed a pang of envy when his cab turned along the Victoria Parade and his eyes beheld a scene that reminded him irresistibly of his annual holiday at Margate , fortunately yet to come . |
| 15 | He saw a uniformed chauffeur polishing the bonnet of the Daimler just before he turned under a stone archway on to the drive . |
| 16 | He turned up a side path to go into the NAAFI . |
| 17 | I ran , turned up the side road . |
| 18 | A FLYING lesson turned into a Biggles adventure for instructor Pat Harris and pupil Linda Hunt . |
| 19 | it was built first to show pictures , then turned into a dance hall . |
| 20 | His rooms at Magdalen have been gutted and turned into a function room . |
| 21 | The dug-up space was later going to be filled with organic wastes and turned into a vegetable patch . |
| 22 | For the man who owns this land , watching what used to be a wheat field turned into a race track has been an eye opener … although he 's well aware of the problems the sport can cause . |
| 23 | Well , the war came , and Dick turned into a night person , got a job as a private cop or a night editor or something . |
| 24 | BRIDE Gaynor Murray 's honeymoon horror turned into a dream wedding gift — thanks to airline bosses . |
| 25 | More than 40 homes were flooded , valuable shop stocks were ruined , and the local theatre turned into a swimming pool . |
| 26 | THE hunt for a missing two-year-old turned into a murder inquiry last night after his body was found on a Merseyside railway embankment . |
| 27 | There were some splendid Cotswold-stone outbuildings and these I turned into a retirement cottage years later for the elderly Bassetts . |
| 28 | Instantly Strawberry turned into a side run and called , " Kingcup ? |
| 29 | But before they reached it , they turned into a side street and then , they hoped before the police reached that street , into another . |
| 30 | When he was out of sight we picked up our bags and turned into a side street . |