Example sentences of "[vb past] turn " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tribe , not knowing how to fly when the propeller stopped turning , glided heavily eastward and crash-landed in a field full of German infantry , who were having a meal before going up to join the attack . |
| 2 | I think it was just the thought that if one shift did n't turn up or if people stopped turning up , then others would n't turn up and it 'd just escalate until everyone was just sitting at home in front of the fire and the quarries would function as normal , and the fact , well certainly with me , I thought well we have to make an appearance to show people that we are still on strike and keep , you know everyone who drives past us will be saying , ah hello what 's up with them ? |
| 3 | Until then , police practice involved turning a blind eye to minor breaches of public decency rather than embarking on lengthy prosecutions . |
| 4 | Disappointed , her confidence evaporating , she tried turning the question round as she had done before : ‘ If you do n't want us to drive back in it , wiggle your finger . ’ |
| 5 | Instead of carrying on and making the downwind landing without incident , he flew on to give himself room to land and then tried to turn around into wind for the landing . |
| 6 | However , a safer and a wiser idea is to take up what I began with : Phyllis Bottome telling how Pound , when they were both young , tried to turn her as a writer from an amateur into a professional . |
| 7 | For a bit , she tried to turn Yeats into a warrior , and he tried to turn her into a high priestess of the Celtic mysteries — and thus , of course , into a ‘ moderate ’ . |
| 8 | For a bit , she tried to turn Yeats into a warrior , and he tried to turn her into a high priestess of the Celtic mysteries — and thus , of course , into a ‘ moderate ’ . |
| 9 | His father , sister , wife and stepmother — Minerva became a much-in-demand soloist and had a big-selling jazz-classical crossover album — were always being honoured , and he always tried to turn out to support them . |
| 10 | Jack tried to turn round , but he could n't . |
| 11 | Edouard saw that she had bruises on her wrists , and that one side of her face , which she tried to turn away from him , was swollen . |
| 12 | I tried to turn in behind him but found that I was going to overshoot and pulled away to starboard . |
| 13 | I tried to crush up a salt tablet in a cup and dissolve it in the water but she moaned when I held the cup to her lips and tried to turn her head away . |
| 14 | The pilot tried to turn back but the jet exploded and a large fireball ripped into a crowded residential area . |
| 15 | The pilot tried to turn back to Schipol airport . |
| 16 | Daemons tried to turn him from his path . |
| 17 | Frantically the evil one tried to turn it aside but could not . |
| 18 | The Frenchman had swept past him , and now tried to turn in the clinging rye . |
| 19 | He reached up for the handle , grasped it , tried to turn it once , failed , tried again and this time dropped face down over the threshold as the door swung open . |
| 20 | Again Fincara 's laughter streamed out ; it was difficult to bear , and Ruth tried to turn her head away ; but in a moment the laughter had melted into song , clear and cold like raindrops tracking a windowpane . |
| 21 | Groggily I tried to turn as the room spun round . |
| 22 | She became a snob ; she thought only of smart society ; and finally she tried to turn her uncle out of the very house in which the most useful things she knew had been inserted into her brain . |
| 23 | Worsley continued to write on general policy questions , but he also tried to turn his knowledge to profit . |
| 24 | She tried to turn ; she felt her face , flushed already with her wasted waiting , and by Franco 's teasing , turn a deeper red . |
| 25 | Maxim tried to turn his head to see , but Billy Dann had already begun to talk before he came into view , with Dave Tanner limping behind . |
| 26 | Behind him the dragon roared and crashed through the bushes as it tried to turn around , but Hrun was running , running , with his gaze fixed on Liartes and a dead branch in his hands . |
| 27 | He threatened to quit the hit series when writers tried to turn the gentle fireman-turned-'tec into a trendy , big-time operator involved with glamour girls and car chases : ‘ It just was n't on , ’ said Michael , back on Tuesday ( ITV , 9pm ) for a seventh Boon series , in a 13-week run . |
| 28 | Kate tried to turn her head away , but he held her head steady with one hand twisted lightly in her hair . |
| 29 | But there was no mistaking the soft fragility of the body beneath his , or the fragrant silkiness of the long tresses brushing across his throat as she tried to turn her head . |
| 30 | Well , I tried to turn it into a joke — not a very good one , I admit — but I said something about that party game called consequences , you know where everyone writes down innocent things that get strung together because nobody knows what the others have written and it gets all mixed up so you get a silly story with a stupid ending . |