Example sentences of "[pron] turn and [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I turned and ran out of the room . |
| 2 | Mr Palmer seemed incapable of speech , and his mouth remained wide open as I turned and walked out of the office . |
| 3 | I went as far as the Galilee Gate , I turned and came back to my church . |
| 4 | I turned and looked out over the slanted , foreshortened wedge of streets and stocky tenements , and for once the strain in my ears found the appropriate line , the right score . |
| 5 | I turned and looked out of the window again . |
| 6 | It was the wee lad shoving his basket into me and laughing fit to burst when I turned and looked down at him . |
| 7 | Later I turned and walloped back towards Berlin , by way of Magdeburg , with just the one tweak of the Tardis en route as I saw the signs for Potsdam . |
| 8 | Half closing my eyes , I turned and backed on to the porch . |
| 9 | She turned and ran back to the house before he could say anything else . |
| 10 | Bursting into tears , she turned and ran back through the wood , pushing blindly through the ferns , stumbling , hot and panting , determined to get away from Nicky so that she could try to think straight . |
| 11 | But she had gone only a few paces before she turned and stared back at the door , a strong sense of oddness — of wrongness — holding her in its grip . |
| 12 | And she turned and went on down the path . |
| 13 | Without waiting for The Fat Controller 's reaction to all this , she turned and went back to her own table , where she was greeted with little ‘ Well done 's and furtive shoulder pats from her fellow diners . |
| 14 | She turned and went back towards her house , and I walked on to Baskerville Hall . |
| 15 | A shy and tentative smile came to the girl 's face and then she turned and went out of the room , walking as surely and as gracefully as if she could see just like everyone else . |
| 16 | Then she turned and walked over to the blackboard and carefully wiped out all the chalk writing . |
| 17 | She turned and walked out of the foyer , her skirts sweeping behind her . |
| 18 | As he started the car and moved away , she turned and walked back into the house . |
| 19 | She turned and walked back down the hall to the lift . |
| 20 | She turned and looked up at Joe , and he , smiling now , said , ‘ I 'm always willing to please . ’ |
| 21 | When none came she turned and looked up at him . |
| 22 | Then she turned and looked back at him , her eyes wet with tears . |
| 23 | ‘ Bad joke , ’ said Tod as she turned and looked down on us . |
| 24 | Emma had mounted the first step of the stairs and she was unwinding her scarf when she turned and looked down on her mother , saying , ‘ I would have been many things if I had been brought up in peace . ’ |
| 25 | She turned and looked down at the handbag , clutched tightly in her hand , and flung it far across the room . |
| 26 | This strange mood seemed to leave her then , and she turned and hurried back to Sikes ' house . |
| 27 | He touched the woman on her arm and she turned and smiled up at him . |
| 28 | She turned and set off down the path leading to the river and the house . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , yes , she had her hood up but she turned and shouted back at us . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Cheers , lads , ’ Duncan said as we turned and went back to the pillar . |