Example sentences of "[pers pn] have turned [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd turned up on NBC talking about Middle East narco-terrorism right after Flight 103 crashed . |
| 2 | When we broke for coffee I asked him whether he 'd consulted Laura about the references I 'd turned up . |
| 3 | What happen was we was standing this jeweller 's , well really we 'd been there , she half the stuff for me and er other people and that , but erm , were standing there for ages , and she come , I 'm , I 'm sort of standing there like this up against the counter waiting to be served , suppose to be coming back right , stood right on the foot , it hurt , but I thought ok it 's a busy shop he wo n't so I 'd turned around , sort of he was there , so I sort of went to him like that and he was looked at me and fucking looked back , so I said are you gon na apologise then , getting right fucking pissed off cos I about three o'clock that day , hang over and being dragged up and down the town all fucking day ai n't my idea of fun you know , ri right in a bad mood anyway , and he said no in a real fucking why do n't you try and make me sort of attitude , so I 'm just about to fucking say something to me , like , how out the shop and everything , and she said what 's the fuck , what 's the matter with you then ? |
| 4 | Mm , oh I , I 'd turned round , I ca n't remember what it was oh , what was it all about ? |
| 5 | After a while , though , when I 'd turned down the side-street where the house was I hoped ) , there were no more sounds to frighten me , and as a result of course I grew much more afraid of the stuffed , dripping silence . |
| 6 | My mother could n't believe I 'd turned down the highest single accolade known to show business aside from This Is Your Life ( which I 've also managed to avoid by dint of a pact with the reclusive man with whom I share my digs ) . |
| 7 | I said , I 'm frightened someone 's in the 'ouse , I 'm frightened not waking everybody well , well what do you do , I says , you do n't , unless you have a go , you do n't , I mean , if I 'd turned out you know , you do n't really know . |
| 8 | However , I said I would try so I put on my best uniform , nicely pressed , and as I paraded in front of him I said I had turned up the hem of my skirt and did he think it was too short ? |
| 9 | I liked her from the moment I met her , and I well recall the occasion — I had turned up at their place and she appeared in the yard from the shed carrying buckets of milk . |
| 10 | ‘ But I would always have regretted it if I had turned down the chance to find out whether I could make it at this level . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ All right , ’ I had said listlessly , disconcerting my mother considerably , since I was perfectly aware that she had expected me to turn down this preposterous proposal with as much intractability as I had turned down the others . |
| 12 | Before I had turned back from Bilen I had watched the Awash flowing towards its unknown destination . |
| 13 | I 've been sifting through my daily routine and I 've turned up quite a handsome collection of finely-wrought deceits cultivated over the years . |
| 14 | I 've had the stations and ports watched , I 've kept a permanent watch on all those locations usually associated with the Irish movement , and I 've turned up nothing . " |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , come on Ken , you 've just admitted I 've turned up something that might be useful . |
| 16 | No , hold on , and I 've turned up with the wrong one . |
| 17 | There are other times when I 've turned back and felt ‘ gosh no , this is wrong ’ and afterwards thought why did I turn back , maybe I should have carried on . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've turned down modelling offers because I do n't want to be labelled . |
| 19 | I would not like to think of myself as a little Boswelly person , and my mother brought me up so much better than I have turned out . |
| 20 | That is , under no circumstances must I mention to anyone that I have turned down an invitation to return to Blighty . |
| 21 | Defoe 's Roxana explains why she has turned down an offer of marriage from a Dutch merchant : ‘ … |
| 22 | She 'd circled the block until she 'd found the side alley where the stage door was located , and then after hiding her bag in a dark spot behind a big wheeled trash hopper she 'd turned around and headed back to the coffee shop . |
| 23 | The client expresses and believes in different , more rational interpretations — ‘ There is no rule which says somebody must love someone else , it would have been great if she 'd turned up but there are other girls I could ask out . |
| 24 | Oh Jesus , Sam , she was everybody 's Aunt Jemima , if she 'd turned up with her hair in a bun and flour on her apron she could n't have made them love her more , Jesus , Sam , we 're not guilty . |
| 25 | Nobody knew much about her , she 'd turned up in the town as a sort of companion-housekeeper to an old lady who had a house in Morrab Close , a Mrs Armitage — a widow . |
| 26 | To hear him tell it you 'd think they 'd had a date and she 'd turned up late ! |
| 27 | After she 'd turned off , she became tired and nervous . |
| 28 | All of her sweet , loving nature that she 'd turned in on herself , waiting for this one moment in her life , this moment of truth , and it had all been for nothing . |
| 29 | She 'd turned down the offers of promotion because of Emily . |
| 30 | She 'd turned down the only chance she had had . |