Example sentences of "turned [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One who smoked too much , that was evident by the time the car turned on to the autostrada going south towards Siena , its light and siren going although the roads were fairly quiet . |
| 2 | Marie-Christine bit her lip as they turned on to the road leading up to the château . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm sorry you 've been lumbered with running me back , ’ Ashley said crisply , as they turned on to the road . |
| 4 | It was a coincidence she was here at the moment the child turned on to the street . |
| 5 | And then Rufus was asleep , his head turned on to the muscle of his upper arm , the fingers that had been on Adam 's shoulder retracting as they relaxed . |
| 6 | Quadrant Park is a great , glitzy three- storeyed chasm of a club in Bootle , which on Saturday nights becomes a suffocating fleshpit of 2,500 north-western ravers tuned in and turned on to the house sound of Merseyside . |
| 7 | Connelly deserved more reward for his efforts as he ceaselessly pushed forward and played some excellent one twos with the front runners , but it was not until the seventy ninth minute that Abingdon sealed the result ; Herbert crossed from the right wing and Aries won a challenge in the air to get a glancing header which Green turned on to the post , but the ball rebounded over the line to make it three nil . |
| 8 | Vitor enquired some time later as they turned on to an expressway . |
| 9 | They turned in at the yard of a two-storey stone house which had a red tiled roof . |
| 10 | It turned in at the gate and came chuntering up the track to pull up beside them . |
| 11 | Two riders turned in at the approach to the castle , the rest of the cavalcade swept onward through the gate , flung open to give them passage , and vanished in a flurry of spume and fine mud along the foregate . |
| 12 | Erm , although I think we will say that that would be dangerous thing to do and that we should continue to work upon the er the assumption that there erm er overall as a n , a nine percent increase , but , that seems highly unlikely that will succeed , erm What I 've then done is take account of the various staffing changes that there have been during the year , both short term and long term , erm , and you 'll see that produces a figure actually available to us this year of twenty seven thousand five hundred and eighty eight investigative hours , erm which is slightly less than we had last year , er but erm almost not significantly so , erm and it seemed to me therefore that if we were n't trying to reduce times , er , if we were saying that we would turn in times at the end of this year which were the same as the term times we turned in at the end of last year we could probably achieve that without any further recruitment . |
| 13 | He opened the window after they turned in to the country . |
| 14 | We reached the gateway and turned in under the adobe arch with the name Hda LUCINDA plaster-embossed in large letters . |
| 15 | It was ten o'clock when he turned in between the lodge gates and guided the Porsche down the winding drive to Tavey Grange . |
| 16 | This news set Berwick in a stir of even greater activity , especially when , that same afternoon , a fleet of ships appeared off the mouth of Tweed , coming from the south , and turned in towards the port . |
| 17 | The cigarette , tip turned in towards the palm , is brought down from the mouth in an exaggerated arc and held behind the back . |
| 18 | After crossing several fields I turned down to the right to follow a metalled road for a while until I reached the first real treat of the day , the Roman road . |
| 19 | FORMER England batsman Bill Athey has had his request for cricket 's equivalent of a free transfer turned down by the Test and County Cricket Board . |
| 20 | The Newcastle woman saw her compensation claim turned down by the CICB , while the London woman received partial compensation of £5,000 . |
| 21 | Application 02/91/0180 for a residential development on this land was made by the Land and Properties Sub-Committee , and turned down by the Planning Committee on 4th April 1991 . |
| 22 | The court , therefore , went to Mr McTear , his living room turned over to a commission appointed by the Court of Session to hear his evidence . |
| 23 | By 1953 , the stiffener works had gone , the buildings turned over to the manufacture of various inks and dyestuffs . |
| 24 | I want that car brought in , turned over to the laboratory and given the works . ’ |
| 25 | The Second World War saw the end of piano manufacture , the works turned over to the production of aircraft parts by the Gloucester Aircraft Company , but after the war , piano manufacture started up again . |
| 26 | The breakthrough was a squat we turned over on the south coast , two years back . |
| 27 | She turned over on the bed and sat up . |
| 28 | I remember one day on the 8th there was a little dinghy turned over on the lake and he hooked his tee-shot , hit the boat and came out on the fairway — the shape of things to come ! |
| 29 | He turned over on the ground , and put his hand to his cock and squeezed himself . |
| 30 | Patrick turned over in the bed , and discovered that there was a fire burning in the grate and a breakfast tray on the small side-table beside the bed . |