Example sentences of "turned [adv prt] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each morning trucks from the factory bumped along a dust road and turned down on to the low gravel bank where we were moored . |
| 2 | He turned off on to the taxiway and followed the green ‘ go ’ lights to a corner away from the main Terminal One . |
| 3 | They walked back through the orchard in silence and when they reached the garden , Bunny turned off abruptly towards the stables . |
| 4 | They turned off sharply to the left and headed up a straight , sloping road between sombre stands of oak and beech . |
| 5 | One family from Rouen , a couple with their young daughter , turned up here in the village . |
| 6 | " I was thinking how little I know of you , and wondering how and why you turned up here in the first place . " |
| 7 | Every head turned up automatically at the sound of the furnace engine . |
| 8 | Rigby was surprised when Gedge turned up beforehand at the town 's Tesco stores where she had a Saturday job . |
| 9 | Seven were announced at the company 's well attended ( 1,800 turned up instead of the expected 1,000 ) 5th annual international user group show in San Jose , California , last week . |
| 10 | Seven were announced at the company 's well-attended ( 1,800 turned up instead of the expected 1,000 ) fifth annual international user group show in San Jose , California , last week . |
| 11 | Hundreds of car enthusiasts turned up today for the South Lincolnshire Motor Show . |
| 12 | Few turned up regularly for the lectures . |
| 13 | And as I walk back through the streets the other thing fuelling this self-criticism is that I turned up there with the gun . |
| 14 | After a while , the lad turned up back at the farm and offered to work for two shillings and pay his own insurance stamp . |
| 15 | We keep ourselves to ourselves , Joan and I. There was a frightful nosy American in the summer who just turned up out of the blue and told us how honoured we must be , having the old bat 's relics up here . |
| 16 | My father , old but gritty , glamorous in the eyes of the class of '68 , a South London wide boy with an authentic background , described his grandfather 's funeral , about 1912 , when a whole other family , wife , children , grandchildren , turned up out of the blue from somewhere further down the line where they 'd been established on the navvy 's journey north . |
| 17 | For months afterwards copies of forms turned up all over the Manchester office . |
| 18 | Then , when they turned out on to the main road , Luke overtook her with an authoritative toot . |
| 19 | Well , as you can see , everything turned out opposite to the way I planned . |
| 20 | He turned back again to the pill-box and , as he began to run towards it , she shoved him into the empty channel on the seaward side of the Lock . |
| 21 | She took Charlotte companionably by the arm , and they turned back together towards the car park , and the Morris , and home . |
| 22 | She turned back quickly into the house , closed and bolted the door and strode across to the telephone . |
| 23 | He smiled a flash of white teeth at Katherine and from nowhere pulled up a chair , which he turned back forwards to the table . |
| 24 | He stopped and turned round just before the drive . |
| 25 | She turned round slowly on the spot , critically examining the contours of the park 's three little hills ( like molehills , Clare told herself ) against the grey sky . |