Example sentences of "turned [prep] [art] [noun sg] [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 | She removed it with her fingers , then she went and turned off the kitchen light and sat slowly swinging . |
| 3 | Quickly he reached out and turned off the night lock . |
| 4 | I turned off the plug bit . |
| 5 | He threw down the knife , turned off the gas ring and stamped down the hall . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Harry turned off the car engine and wound down the window . |
| 10 | Research turned towards the policy process itself , to the people who took the decisions and to the local political institutions in which they operated . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He saw a uniformed chauffeur polishing the bonnet of the Daimler just before he turned under a stone archway on to the drive . |
| 13 | He turned up a side path to go into the NAAFI . |
| 14 | I ran , turned up the side road . |
| 15 | it was built first to show pictures , then turned into a dance hall . |
| 16 | His rooms at Magdalen have been gutted and turned into a function room . |
| 17 | The dug-up space was later going to be filled with organic wastes and turned into a vegetable patch . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Well , the war came , and Dick turned into a night person , got a job as a private cop or a night editor or something . |
| 20 | BRIDE Gaynor Murray 's honeymoon horror turned into a dream wedding gift — thanks to airline bosses . |
| 21 | More than 40 homes were flooded , valuable shop stocks were ruined , and the local theatre turned into a swimming pool . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | There were some splendid Cotswold-stone outbuildings and these I turned into a retirement cottage years later for the elderly Bassetts . |
| 24 | Instantly Strawberry turned into a side run and called , " Kingcup ? |
| 25 | But before they reached it , they turned into a side street and then , they hoped before the police reached that street , into another . |
| 26 | When he was out of sight we picked up our bags and turned into a side street . |
| 27 | Santerre , however , had problems of his own as Mandeville , assisted by Southgate and a servile Bowyer , had the great hall cleared and turned into a shire court . |
| 28 | They turned into a dirt track flanked by very young gum trees . |
| 29 | Having got to the outskirts of Bletchley it turned into a housing estate and ended up hitting the gates of Wellsmead School . |
| 30 | A few years ago , 16 boys from a school in Somerset were arrested after a day-trip to Taunton turned into a shoplifting spree . |