Example sentences of "turned [prep] a [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 | He saw a uniformed chauffeur polishing the bonnet of the Daimler just before he turned under a stone archway on to the drive . |
| 3 | He turned up a side path to go into the NAAFI . |
| 4 | it was built first to show pictures , then turned into a dance hall . |
| 5 | His rooms at Magdalen have been gutted and turned into a function room . |
| 6 | The dug-up space was later going to be filled with organic wastes and turned into a vegetable patch . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Well , the war came , and Dick turned into a night person , got a job as a private cop or a night editor or something . |
| 9 | BRIDE Gaynor Murray 's honeymoon horror turned into a dream wedding gift — thanks to airline bosses . |
| 10 | More than 40 homes were flooded , valuable shop stocks were ruined , and the local theatre turned into a swimming pool . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There were some splendid Cotswold-stone outbuildings and these I turned into a retirement cottage years later for the elderly Bassetts . |
| 13 | Instantly Strawberry turned into a side run and called , " Kingcup ? |
| 14 | But before they reached it , they turned into a side street and then , they hoped before the police reached that street , into another . |
| 15 | When he was out of sight we picked up our bags and turned into a side street . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They turned into a dirt track flanked by very young gum trees . |
| 18 | Having got to the outskirts of Bletchley it turned into a housing estate and ended up hitting the gates of Wellsmead School . |
| 19 | A few years ago , 16 boys from a school in Somerset were arrested after a day-trip to Taunton turned into a shoplifting spree . |
| 20 | ‘ It 'd be heartbreaking to see it turned into a car park . ’ |
| 21 | In practice , thought , the Antares 130 was slightly thirsty and turned in a pto fuel consumption figure of 265g/kWhr. given a 20% power loss between engine and pto , this gives a fuel consumption figure for the engine of 238g/kWhr . |
| 22 | BARRY WILSON turned in a star performance as Stantondale increased their lead at the top of the second division last week - and afterwards his managers furnished him with the same compliment : ‘ He 's class . ’ |
| 23 | With the drive cache disabled , it turned in a power rating of 14,203 and a WinTach rating of 3.75 , which is n't bad . |
| 24 | To avoid their notice , and give them time to get clear of the folded valley before he ventured it , he turned on a contour course towards Ruthyn , and kept in the fringes of the forest , watching the glint of steel come and go on the track lower down the slope , drawing steadily nearer to him , but some half-mile below . |
| 25 | He turned on a star performance to come past Peter Morgan , Andy Skues , Richard Whiteside and in the final James Gronland . |
| 26 | My mother pinpoints the downfall of western civilisation as the moment when a teenager turned on a transistor radio during a screening of The Robe . |
| 27 | She turned to a glass case that held a number of boxes , and after a moment she said , ‘ No , I 'm afraid not . |
| 28 | Soon they turned down a side road which led to Drumbreck House where Sir Ewen McLay lived . |