Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the turn " in BNC.
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| 1 | That style may have been the only way round a corner in the days of slippy tyres , dodgy suspension and flexible chassis but modern GP machines permit a faster , more aggressive route through the turn . |
| 2 | Progress upwind can only be made by completing a series of zig-zags , the turns at first being executed by the 180 degree turn method and later , with more experience , by tacking — steering the board through the turn . |
| 3 | The rig is partly used to steer the board through the turn by angling it across the board into wind . |
| 4 | Depth is half the game in lock-picking ; the other half is getting enough leverage for the turn , since even a proper pick has no shaft going right through to rest on the end ward like a real key . |
| 5 | So , with this result , I decided to try the opposite by pushing down on the boom through the turn . |
| 6 | At the post office there is a clear indication for the turn off to the left , which very soon becomes a forest track that comes out on to a metalled road after 10 minutes walk . |
| 7 | If the Steam Tank is obliged to expend steam points because of a ‘ malfunction ’ result on the Boiler Table , the steam points must be used to move away from the enemy during the turn in which it is affected . |
| 8 | In my gybe , it seemed that by pulling up on the boom I was committing a lot of weight to the back which , although turning the board initially , caused it to lose speed through the turn . |
| 9 | The detachment of the press from political parties after the turn of the century — a result of economic rather than ideological factors — did not lessen the importance of those with political and economic power . |
| 10 | ( The choice of clockwise for + is arbitrary and probably due to thinking of the turn R as clockwise . ) |
| 11 | So , quite certainly , would Mrs Brooks , a journalist of the turn of the century who thought that the flowers , the food nd the wine should be chosen to match the hostess 's dress , and her contemporary , Mrs Alfred Praga , who believed , on the contrary , that the hostess 's dress should be chosen to harmonize with the food and decor . |
| 12 | At line 7 , Adele 's indirect-speech report of what Belinda had said — " you was goin " to see it " is in London English , while the surrounding talk of the turn is in Creole . |
| 13 | while whe you mean at line 25 overlaps with the turn of her brother L , to whom it is addressed . |
| 14 | This makes it easier to lean your weight into the turn and it is even more exaggerated when you turn on a wave face . |
| 15 | Sales by galleries and auction houses dealing in , say , Picasso and Matisse will be caught , but sales by galleries dealing in , say , British pictures from the turn of the century , such as Augustus John and Sickert , may be made without the royalty being paid , since the pictures are now out of copyright . |
| 16 | ‘ We have had a lot of kids in the side since the turn of the year . |
| 17 | Avoid applying the weight to the turn by leaning the whole body , rather let the bent knees do the work whilst the upper body remains upright . |
| 18 | V. A. C. Gatrell and T. B. Hadden , for example , have argued that there was ‘ a real decline in criminal activity , and quite a spectacular one ’ in the late decades of the nineteenth century , and T. R. Gurr and his colleagues agree that crime and public disorder in London ( as reflected in the official crime figures ) reached a low ebb at the turn of the century . |
| 19 | They were known as the Garonnais de plaine and the Garonnais de côteau , respectively , until 1922 when the Quercy , which had Limousin blood at the turn of the century , became separate . |
| 20 | A high-speed intellectual roller-coaster ride quite likely to toss you out of the car at the turn of the next page — or at best have you clinging on by the fingernails . |
| 21 | Its lineage reaches back , via the accusations against the Hollywood ‘ talkies ’ and the earliest silent movies , through and beyond the Music Halls at the turn of the century when directly similar complaints were voiced , towards the cheap theatres and penny-gaffs of early Victorian England when it was commonly alleged that the portrayal of the daring exploits of Jack Sheppard and Dick Turpin caused young people to imitate their crimes , and then back towards the eighteenth century 's disapproval of popular amusements such as fairs , interludes , public shows and minor theatres . |
| 22 | The back-to-nature cult had really got me — but with heat and light and hot baths at the turn of a switch . |
| 23 | Dolores Hayden has brilliantly documented these campaigns ( amongst other things , for kitchenless houses ) and described the seemingly bizarre utopias that an earlier group of American feminists — less blinded than we are by shiny domestic technology-designed at the turn of this century ( Hayden , 1981 ) . |
| 24 | We are not suggesting a sharp break at the turn of the nineteenth century or at the accession of Queen Victoria or whatever . |
| 25 | They are thought to represent the manometric equivalent of colonic mass movements that were first described by radiologists at the turn of the century . |
| 26 | In the true tradition of the pub boom at the turn of the century , although decidedly grand , most of these refurbishments do not take themselves deadly seriously . |
| 27 | Northampton , of course , is famous for its ‘ boots and shoes ’ and many of the fine Victorian buildings which abound are derived from the wealth of the shoe industry at the turn of the century . |
| 28 | Edinburgh , as described in Chapter 1 , was a city of small trades , with little large-scale industry at the turn of the century . |
| 29 | He held that generalist knowledge must take priority ; and Scottish schools at the turn of the century were founded on this principle . |
| 30 | A Renaissance had last happened in the days of the ‘ Glasgow Boys ’ and the other artists , architects and the like at the turn of the 20th century , and one of the stars of that re-birth of style and innovation , was the late , great son of a police superintendent , Charles Rennie Mackintosh . |