Example sentences of "[coord] turned the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Goldberg , pushing back his chair , stepping over the piles of papers and magazines littering the floor of his study , scanned the bookcase , found what he wanted , brought the book back to his desk , licked his middle finger and turned the pages , found the passage and copied carefully into the margin : only his mind remains unchanged . |
| 2 | He walked past Claire 's room and turned the corner . |
| 3 | She reached into a cabinet and turned the radio off . |
| 4 | He extracted Catherine a short while later and turned the car back on the darkened road which would lead them towards the A1 . |
| 5 | Tom stopped by Jack and turned the engine off . |
| 6 | The Woman shut the door and turned the key in the lock . |
| 7 | We drained the swimming pool and turned the surrounds into a huge , light , warm , press area . |
| 8 | It removed an essential feature of ball-winning and turned the tournament into a lottery . |
| 9 | He did his late father , Guy , proud with a sparkling outward half of 33 before the more treacherous inward half took its toll and turned the round into a 72 . |
| 10 | ’ ’ He licked his thumb and turned the paper , ‘ … and flummery ’ , ’ he added , the last bit being written on the next page . |
| 11 | Receiving no response , he went through to the bathroom and turned the cold tap on full . |
| 12 | Then a group of local armourers assembled in the square , were blessed at a makeshift altar and turned the first shovelful of earth on the foundations of the new building . |
| 13 | He came to an arrangement with two more actors , gave the camera crews some private pocket money and turned the film over to his assistants . |
| 14 | Roland sat on Maud 's huge white sofa , by the wood fire and turned the pages . |
| 15 | Jazz looked at it for a long time , then he propped it back against the lamp , and turned the light out . |
| 16 | He shuffled past the police barracks — formerly the Archbishop 's Palace — and turned the corner into the cathedral close . |
| 17 | The moon was making gallant attempts to shine : every now and then it peeped through a chink in the scurrying clouds , and turned the puddles into little lakes of quicksilver . |
| 18 | He switched to the video channel and turned the machine on . |
| 19 | She sighed and turned the television off . |
| 20 | She stood regarding him with a serious intensity as he let in the clutch and turned the car and he had the impression that she was watching critically to see how he handled it . |
| 21 | He felt reluctant to tackle the journey back over the moors until daylight , and turned the horse instead down the lane to Cherry Tree Farm . |
| 22 | The sun , making a guest appearance between frowning petrol-blue clouds , floodlit the dog daisies and hogweed in the long grass and turned the pitch a stinging viridian . |
| 23 | He took the pencil from Willie 's hand and turned the postcard towards him . |
| 24 | Zach slammed the door behind them in a disgruntled manner and turned the light on . |
| 25 | He walked past it and turned the corner into Cromwell Road . |
| 26 | The Second Vice-President took over defence of the Bill in the House and turned the discussion away from considerations of press freedom to a critique of newspapers like the Standard , which were owned by capitalists . |
| 27 | as if aware of his scrutiny and annoyed by it , she jerked Blazer 's head round and turned the horse 's tail towards Tom . |
| 28 | Mike Sheron , with four goals in four games , has prompted three successive Premier League wins , pushed City to seventh and turned the Maine Road jeers to cheers . |
| 29 | The tunnelling was necessitated by having to rediscover the channel of the watercourse after it had come by pipe from the millpond above and turned the wheel . |
| 30 | In one fell swoop he settled rumblings of discontent and turned the Labour conference , which starts today , from being an inward-looking examination of defeat into a confident bid to show the world — Brian Gould notwithstanding — an alternative to the ‘ devalued Prime Minister of a devalued government ’ . |