Example sentences of "he turned [adv prt] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hot shine must have cut to black as he was soft-footing it up the stairs , because when he turned around on the half-landing and crouched behind the angle of the banister the only light in the hall was the inward spill from the porch , and that was getting less as the door slowly closed on its hydraulic arm . |
| 2 | The phone kept ringing and no one there , and then he turned up on the doorstep . |
| 3 | It must have been quite a shock when he turned up on the doorstep . ’ |
| 4 | He turned over on the ground , and put his hand to his cock and squeezed himself . |
| 5 | Galliéni , who was senior to Joffre , had been offered the supreme command , a post he turned down on the grounds that all his experience had been as a colonial soldier and administrator . |
| 6 | The horseman took a great pride in his horses , as we have seen ; and when he turned out on the highway he was careful to see they were braided up , the brasses highly polished , and the bounces — the ‘ lovely coloured worsted ’ , as one horseman called them — properly displayed . |