Example sentences of "[noun] turned [adv prt] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eyes turned up so that only the whites were left and he made an ugly sound deep in his throat , then he went forward , full-face on to the ground . |
| 2 | His mouth turned up lazily . |
| 3 | Barrymore turned round quickly , surprise and horror on his face . |
| 4 | Edward turned up late for their rendezvous , and found Foley standing at the bar with a much younger man who had a long , intelligent face and a quiet manner , whom he introduced as Harold Philby , known as Kim . |
| 5 | A couple of years ago , it seemed that the number of UK robot companies was about to mushroom , but the optimism turned out not to be justified . |
| 6 | By the middle and later 1960s , however , this ‘ Cisalpine ’ theological agenda was being overtaken by a more evidently twentieth-century one : modern biblical scholarship turned out not to have stopped with Westcott and Lightfoot nor even with Dodd , but seemed much more a matter of swallowing Bultmann and Nineham ; ecumenical theology now led one less to Luther and Calvin or even Barth than to the vapid profundities of Tillich , Bishop Robinson 's Honest to God and beyond . |
| 7 | McMahon , like his player-manager , Peter Reid , is a born winner , however , and the recent £900,000 signing from Anfield turned in probably his best performance for his new club . |
| 8 | The fabric turned out very even , including around the edge of the motif . |
| 9 | ‘ I forgot to ask you if your car turned up all right . |
| 10 | He slipped his arm protectively round Agnes Dooley 's shoulder as the carriage dipped and the leading compartment turned through almost a complete right angle . |
| 11 | So the contradiction identified by Castells turned out much less problematic and insoluble than imagined . |
| 12 | This cars turned round even to go out the bottom of there 's been an accident oh . |
| 13 | ‘ We needed a large amount of seismic data turned round very fast , ’ says Keith Nunn , manager , Seismic Quality , XFI . |
| 14 | The contest turned out more like a flyweight taking on a cruiserweight , with the referee on the cruiser 's side . |
| 15 | Perhaps the articles turned out badly because his heart was n't really in that kind of parish pump , chatty writing . |
| 16 | The engine turned over slowly . |
| 17 | Hundreds of car enthusiasts turned up today for the South Lincolnshire Motor Show . |
| 18 | Had Red Reg turned up here , one felt certain they would have set the whole menagerie on him . |
| 19 | Ruth turned back quickly ; she knew that the Kleibers ' baby was overdue . |
| 20 | She put out a hand and touched the nearest arm , and the driver turned round quickly . |
| 21 | Three o'clock , you say , Lewis , when Kemp turned up again in Oxford ? ’ |
| 22 | Isabel turned around slowly . |
| 23 | On March 17 marching crowds turned out again , this time to mark the anniversary of the death , allegedly under torture , of a student leader , Abdoul Karim Camara , in 1980 [ see p. 30560 ] . |
| 24 | For months afterwards copies of forms turned up all over the Manchester office . |
| 25 | The back leg is locked straight , with the back foot pointing forward and the front foot turned in slightly . |
| 26 | Broadman turned round angrily . |
| 27 | The German turned round obediently and the orderly followed him down the wire . |
| 28 | I looked up the authentic sources ; the Comte de Horne turned out not to be an illegitimate son of Louis XV ; the marriage had been consummated and he had died of indigestion . |
| 29 | Cameron turned back up the Tay , glad that the harvest of names was nearly home . |
| 30 | He received an immediate apology , but a few weeks later the picture turned up again — this time accompanying a feature on prostitution in Paris . |