Example sentences of "[n mass] to turn [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A wide net helps to prevent this happening and also allows the fish to turn round if they want to . |
| 2 | There was a long series of public meetings in 1980 and one of these was set up as a sort of week-end rally to which the anti-nuclear people were invited from all over Ireland , and at a big indoor public meeting during that weekend where you would normally have expected about 400 people to turn up , only about two locals turned up and the rest were all outsiders . |
| 3 | Presumably that 's to encourage people to turn up instead of piling down the pub to watch it on sky tv . |
| 4 | To help her , she is allowed to ask three people to turn round , which they do as far as possible without revealing whether or not they have the ball . |
| 5 | But the most important saving could be made by persuading people to turn off lights when they are not needed — either by time switches or by well-designed panels which allow people to select easily the amount of light they need . |
| 6 | For several weeks Iranian media have been exhorting people to turn out for the demonstration . |