Example sentences of "[vb past] turned [adv prt] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was the largest ship to enter Sharpness Docks since the war , and many local people had turned up to watch her berth . |
| 2 | A month earlier the government was startled to learn that the Soviet defence minister , Marshal Dmitri Yazov , had turned up to inspect his troops in the east without telling the Germans . |
| 3 | Mary had begun to visit her regularly on Friday mornings — with Mr Fenton 's express approval and the Christian support of her mother — when she was about fourteen — at about the time her father had begun to use her in the Fish and Budworth had turned up to sketch his mischief . |
| 4 | ROYAL baby doctor Sir George Pinker arrived for a quiet lunch yesterday — to find Princess Diana and 1,000 other people had turned up to honour him . |
| 5 | Or imagine the scene at a Labour Conference about fifty years ago if a certain Oswald Mosley had turned up to see his former party colleagues . |
| 6 | The first Sara had known of Adam 's injury was when she had turned up to collect him at the school gate . |
| 7 | The sources said almost all the documents which had turned up appeared to have gone missing before the 1988 change . |
| 8 | In answer to Grant 's summons , Larsen had turned up accompanied by ten well muscled companions . |
| 9 | Fenella told me , breathily and all excited , that they were going to operate and we 'd all have to leave , but it was all right really because Salome 's mum ( who was ever so nice ) had turned up having been called by Frank and was in there talking to the surgeons . |
| 10 | Joan had turned round to take a last look at the prince . |
| 11 | It seemed that most villagers had turned out to welcome their hero as more than 100 cars filled the field adjacent to Gaselee 's Saxon Lodge Stables . |
| 12 | Thousands had turned out to watch , and Group Four crossed the line to win the final leg . |
| 13 | Two of the doors she had forced had turned out to open the other way , and to be cupboards containing piles of bedclothes , folded . |
| 14 | ‘ Our people are more cocky and believe they are winning ’ , wrote MacDonald after 7000 people had turned out to celebrate May Day in his Leicester constituency . |
| 15 | Some 1,500 traders , industrialists and self-employed artisans , out of 1,700 eligible , had turned out to vote . |
| 16 | Look how readily the thousand had turned out to besiege the laird at Castle Menzies ! |
| 17 | The lads had turned out to hear their lads . |
| 18 | Nothing in the South Ronaldsay community would approach normality for a very long time , and most people from the village and the surrounding community had turned out to discover for themselves what was happening , and then to lend their support to the stricken families . |
| 19 | Initial reports that the local garrison of the ( Serb-dominated ) Yugoslav People 's Army had turned out to assist the Knin insurgents proved to be false ( on Aug. 14 Serbian National Council leader Jovan Raskovic had called for army protection should the referendum be prevented ) . |
| 20 | She had been in her cottage waiting for the return of Tom and Carrie when a villager ran past shouting news of the fire and she had turned out to help . |
| 21 | Presumably his companion had turned back to try to get help . |
| 22 | He had turned back to help someone else out of the train , but at the sound of her calling , he swung round and stood waiting , his arms outstretched and his face , above that dear and familiar gingery beard , creased with the broadest smile . |