Example sentences of "[n mass] turned [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The aircraft turned over the breakwater and was followed out by the same intense gunfire . |
| 2 | ‘ We needed a large amount of seismic data turned round very fast , ’ says Keith Nunn , manager , Seismic Quality , XFI . |
| 3 | another Central South success story this year has been the form of Gloucestershire racing trainer David Nicholson … yesterday he opened his new stables at Ford for the very first time and racing folk turned up in their thousands |
| 4 | When he had gone , Li Yuan turned back to his father , smiling , one hand still resting on the Andalusian 's smooth , strong neck . |
| 5 | Li Yuan turned back , frowning , then , trusting to instinct , came directly to the point . |
| 6 | Up to March last year 11,676 were invited for screening and 74pc turned up . |
| 7 | People turned round to see who she was waving at . |
| 8 | Almost as many people turned up for me as had for Youngman . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , violence outside the Grunwick works rapidly escalated , culminating in a so-called ‘ day of action ’ ( 11 July 1977 ) when about 18,000 people turned up to picket and there was much fighting with the police , resulting in seventy arrests and several injuries . |
| 10 | We used his PA system which was a bit ramshackle , but it worked — that was the main thing — and about 25 people turned up in the little mock Tudor , oak panelled dining room that was part of The Three Tuns pub in Beckenham . |
| 11 | George Underwood designed the poster and 50 people turned up . |
| 12 | We just hit at the right moment and from that week onwards , at least 90 people turned up every week . |
| 13 | This time about 120 people turned up , mainly business and professional people , clergy , trade-unionists and political leaders . |
| 14 | Their talent for self-promotion ensured that many people turned up at the Ritz to witness the intriguing spectacle of The Smiths falling on their collective backsides . |
| 15 | Only 11 people turned up but the football team-sized audience asked for an encore and Charman summed it up as ‘ Good . ’ |
| 16 | The teach-in organisers reckoned that if a dozen people turned up it would be worthwhile . |
| 17 | Plenty of people turned up , including Mark Lennox Boyd , one of the influential and able new generation of Conservatives , and MP for ITE Merlewood , the Father of the House , John Parker , who has been campaigning on the environment and forestry since 1935 , and a Green troika of David Clark , Opposition spokesman on environment , Peter Hardy , author of a book on badgers , and chairman of the Council of Europe Agricultural Committee , and me . |
| 18 | On occasion , so many people turned up to a Baldersdale funeral and the church or chapel became so crowded that people had to stand outside . |
| 19 | I was invited to open functions in various parts of the Yorkshire Dales and quite a surprising number of people turned up . |
| 20 | Several people turned up , apparently , but only one person agreed to come as I remember it : Alan Chapman , an unposh boy with a big blue scar down his nose . |
| 21 | And although scores of people turned up looking for a pet , new waifs were being brought in almost as quickly . |
| 22 | On August 22nd only 6000 people turned up to the London demonstration called by the Special Conference . |
| 23 | More than 300,000 people turned up . |
| 24 | Two thousand , seven hundred people turned up for the opening session of Object World ‘ 92 in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago , Katy Ring was one of them . |
| 25 | In my concern as Chairman of the Board was that er if very few people turned up then perhaps people might say that we did n't go around go about advertising it in the correct way what I think we actually did I 'm not sure how many people are here this evening , but I should think it 's somewhere in the region of about hundred and , hundred and fifty , so I hope that the meeting this evening sort of cross representation people actually use facilities which the playhouse offers . |
| 26 | In the end I think three people turned up . |
| 27 | When she recently appeared at a New York department store to promote a scent , over 5,000 people turned up to catch a precious glimpse of her in the flesh . |
| 28 | And then just as you were about to eat that another six people turned up so there were twelve altogether and you 'd have to shar share that |
| 29 | He was n't allowed to work that day , so people turned up in a white shirt and tie and looking smart , they had to wear uniforms even a cap but unfortunately nowadays , although a lot of the I have seen quite a few people their uniform has changed since I left , but erm they do come to work in very very casual work now . |
| 30 | Only about 60 people turned up to a recent candle-lit vigil outside Orsett hospital supposedly a protest against trust status being given . |