Example sentences of "turned [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was to the king that Holland turned during the great crisis of 1321–2 , when Lancaster rebelled against Edward . |
| 2 | In one such mood I turned for the first time to Marcus Aurelius . |
| 3 | Our local PFA Inspector Pat Barker kept a keen eye on our progress , monitoring our workmanship at all the recognised stages throughout the build , and on 8 March this year , Midge 's propeller turned for the first time under her own engine power , being a Monday , I naturally had the day as holiday ! |
| 4 | Once past her garden , Clare turned off the narrow lane on to a path hedged high with hawthorn , which led up the gently rising hill behind the cottage to the wood . |
| 5 | There was much hilarity when I dived into my bag and turned off the offending breast pump . |
| 6 | Lena Rodenko killed the engine and turned off the monotonous drone of propaganda . |
| 7 | He twisted the nozzle of the shower-head and turned off the hot tap , revelling in the icy needle-sharp spray stinging his body . |
| 8 | They turned off the main road and caught sight of the cottage . |
| 9 | The woman , now 20 , said she began to feel ‘ wary ’ when the officer turned off the main road to her home , saying he knew a short-cut . |
| 10 | When they turned off the main road Uncle George had to drive at little more than walking pace , for he could n't see where the lane ended and the ditches at the sides began , for snow cloaked everything . |
| 11 | She remembered having seem a small café down one of the streets that surrounded the station and turned off the main road to find it . |
| 12 | They turned off the main road . |
| 13 | We turned off the main road at the Faiz Bazaar and wandered through dirty back lanes towards Daryaganj . |
| 14 | Claudia sat quietly beside him as he turned off the main road . |
| 15 | He turned off the main light switch and put on the bedside lamp , and against the lamp he propped an old brown photograph . |
| 16 | Bernice flashed an apologetic smile to the Doctor , and turned towards the young couple . |
| 17 | She turned towards the indoor school . |
| 18 | In the stunned silence George Felse got up , without speaking , and crossed the room to where Gus 's jacket hung on the back of a chair , turned towards the replenished fire , and steamed gently as it dried . |
| 19 | By the age of nineteen he was back at home , which was probably , by this time , in Yafforth about twenty-five miles from Thornton Dale , the way of development through the competitive channels of establishment institutions behind him , and his face turned towards the alternative life-style of the recluse which he embarked on with a comically home-spun rite of passage . |
| 20 | She turned towards the shallow stone steps leading out of the square . |
| 21 | Yanto shivered slightly as he turned towards the Blue Boar 's front porch . |
| 22 | Herluin had sensibly refrained from playing any part in the affair , once it turned towards the partial restoration of Ramsey 's credit and the grievous embarrassment of Shrewsbury . |
| 23 | Charles turned towards the Green Room door and the stairs to the dressing rooms . |
| 24 | She could hear a loud , low-pitched door-bell , always opened the door fully , invited the patient to enter , then left the door open so that the patient turned towards the open door when giving his name . |
| 25 | ‘ Nevertheless , we 're talking ownership here , ’ Florian insisted as they turned towards the open door . |
| 26 | He turned towards the short passage on the left of the companionway , at the end of which lay the skipper 's cabin . |
| 27 | He decided against a tram and turned towards the underground station at the Wittenberg Platz , a neo-classical building complete with the purity of doric capitals and pediment . |
| 28 | She turned towards the dim glow of the fire in the grate . |
| 29 | The tide turned against the Labour government in its marginal defeat in 1951 because of what was seen to be its still strong commitment to state regulation and control and because of the new-found attractiveness of the free-market ideology offered by the Conservatives . |
| 30 | Public and press opinion turned against the whole concept , with Queen Victoria pronouncing it ‘ objectionable ’ and The Times declaring that ‘ the silver streak is our safety ’ . |