Example sentences of "[noun prp] turn " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the head of Loch Torridon , the main road coming from Kinlochewe turns along the south shore for Shieldaig , first passing through the settlement of Annat . |
| 2 | Galerie Pels-Leusden turns its attention to painting by the mentally ill with an exhibition of large-format works in coloured pencil by Friedrich Schroder-Sonnenstern . |
| 3 | In response , however , Polycarp turns to the crowd in the amphitheatre and shouts out the words which the Proconsul has invited him to repeal as if they applied to the audience in the arena . |
| 4 | This lamplit cave , where Jan turns back and farts , |
| 5 | Isabella turns and flashes back , ‘ And I 've come all the way from New York ! ’ |
| 6 | Isabella turns away , and for a moment I think she is about to refuse . |
| 7 | Karajan ( DG ) has often been taken to task from making an adagio meal of Shostakovich 's andante here , but Flor turns it into a snail 's banquet ( beautiful Concertgebouw wind playing notwithstanding ) . |
| 8 | NOW DEC TURNS TO AUSPEX |
| 9 | Inside I am delirious , but then comes the bombshell : Ma turns to me and , shouting over the screams , says : ‘ Let baby have your spoon , dear , there 's a good boy . ’ |
| 10 | Stephen Silk turns vigilante and is amazed at what goes on beside the railroad tracks |
| 11 | If reduced to 1 Wound or below , Maximilian turns ethereal and then passes through the floor in the centre of the circle , leaving Juliane to her fate . |
| 12 | Wouters turns Caxton 's famous quotation on its head and says ‘ things formerly forbidden are now allowed ’ , but not only does he not go into detail as to what these things might be , he certainly does not suggest that ‘ things now allowed are actively engaged in ’ . |
| 13 | ( Abberley turns his back and goes to his bed . ) |
| 14 | NOW SIEMENS NIXDORF TURNS TO HP FOR LICENCE TO SOFTBENCH |
| 15 | Fairfax turns to her . |
| 16 | Fairfax turns towards the door . |
| 17 | Fairfax turns to me : ‘ The laibon is telling me about the lion hunt in which his brother was injured . ’ |
| 18 | Raskolnikov turns to Sonya ; ‘ it was to her , Sonya , that he first went with his confession ; when he felt the need of a human being , he sought the human being in her ’ — which does indeed isolate for a moment , and emphasize , the mystic business of his alienation from the human family ; and for this moment the dross ( as it were ) of Sonya and of Raskolnikov is withheld ; the god in his humanity is looking for the god in hers . |
| 19 | There is no doubt that officialdom in Brussels turns a blind eye to anti-competitive behaviour by state-owned industries in a way that it is not prepared to do for private companies . |
| 20 | Peterborough : McAlpine turns on Tory ‘ brat-pack ’ |
| 21 | Miranda shouts out the name and then covers her face , giggling ; Xanthe turns , buries her head in Feeny 's breast . |
| 22 | Finally Engels turns to the future of marriage and this is seen in terms of past evolution . |
| 23 | It is to this image of the reformed soul and the nature of its experience that Hilton turns at greater length in Scale 2 . |
| 24 | Tomas turns out to be sexually as well as politically opportunistic , resulting in vengeance , desperation and a lot of emotional broken glass . |
| 25 | But is he fifty P in front of me or fifty P behind , Cos then Ken turns |
| 26 | It 's nice to be a man ‘ doing ’ the letters pages ; that stroppy strumpet Whiplash had had it too good for too long , but how the two-headed blue-worm of Gulonkerb turns , eh ? |
| 27 | Wright turns on the style |
| 28 | Neil turns to the camera and hits his forehead with the palm of his hand . |
| 29 | Shropshire TEC turns its attention to various other schemes , too . |
| 30 | Marie turns to look at me , and I can just see the light shining off her eyes . |