Example sentences of "to turn [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The standard OCAO pattern is to turn right at the holding point and fly the outbound leg for one minute . |
2 | Fiona , whose businessman husband Rod Potts lives in Cumbria , plans to turn in at the same time as her baby daughter Natasha . |
3 | Money Mercury is about to turn backwards on the 11th , so try to tie up all outstanding financial matters before then . |
4 | In a cross wind it almost always pays to turn off to the down wind side first . |
5 | There would be no wasted space and we would still be able to turn directly to the required name . |
6 | This is not a practical way to run a paper and pencil address book because it 's not possible to turn directly to the 3423rd character in a book , and the saving in space would not be worth the tedium involved . |
7 | It did indeed prove a momentous day — and a momentous speech as well : but it lay in a future that none could foresee , and for the moment all that poor Hazel could do was to turn aside with the disappointed feeling that after all , his part in the crossing of the heather had not really been a very important one . |
8 | IT just has to be every teacher 's nightmare — to turn up for the new term and face TEN sets of twins . |
9 | McGrath , returning after being forgiven for failing to turn up for the Irish trek to Albania two weeks ago , rewarded Jack Charlton 's faith in him with a goal and a swagger as though he had never been away . |
10 | The world 's most famous footballer declined to turn up at the Argentine team camp until late on Tuesday night , 48 hours later than most of his team-mates . |
11 | The world 's most famous footballer declined to turn up at the Argentine team camp until late on Tuesday night , 48 hours later than most of his team-mates . |
12 | The most useful contribution he could make was to turn up on the right day in the right uniform , cut ribbons , and make cosy speeches . |
13 | ABS Computers Ltd , formerly the Allied Business Systems small business computer manufacturer , has long looked a vestigial part of the Trafalgar House Plc empire , too small to turn up in the annual report , and giving the impression that top management was unaware of its existence . |
14 | ABS Computers Ltd , formerly the Allied Business Systems small business computer manufacturer , has long looked a vestigial part of the Trafalgar House Plc empire , too small to turn up in the annual report , and giving the impression that top management was unaware of its existence . |
15 | The first details we have of the latter , in the Host 's invitation to him to follow the Monk , initially suggest , if we still believe appearances and associations can be a sign of character , that he is as likely to turn out as the threadbare and serious Clerk on his horse " " as leene as is a rake " " does ( I : 284 ) as to prove to be what the Monk has proved not to be : |
16 | To turn around from the forward stance to face in the opposite direction , adopt the standard forward stance , and then move the right foot about half a shoulder 's width to the left , pivoting on the left foot and maintaining balance . |
17 | If you do venture by car on to the edge of Otmoor , there is the feeling that you will be unable to turn around in the narrow space between the dykes , or may get stuck up to the axles in mud . |
18 | In his first over , he produced the only ball to turn extravagantly throughout the whole match , to ‘ gate ’ a startled Gooch . |
19 | If the new government — whoever heads it — wants to avoid an embarrassing , inflationary and recession-reinforcing rise in mortgage rates , it must allow societies to turn increasingly to the international money markets . |
20 | In the 1950s and 60s , when Britain itself needed workers , it seemed obvious to turn again to the vast army of labour which waited in the colonies and ex-colonies , and whose situation itself had been created by colonialism . |