Example sentences of "[pers pn] turn [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And on one occasion in the gymnasium , I turned round to look at a boy behind me and the master was there and he smacked me with the flat of his hand as hard as he could . |
| 2 | I ca n't imagine how I would have survived without good friends who sustained me when I turned up weeping in the middle of the night . |
| 3 | She turned away to shout to the android . |
| 4 | and erm you 're looking , you 're , let's say you turn up looking at a screen , you 're actually standing up like they used to do in the old days before they had radar |
| 5 | where you turn right to go into the nursery |
| 6 | From there we turned right to ride up the hill towards Lastingham , over the bottom of the wild moor that backs on to Rosedale . |
| 7 | From this discussion of London Creole we turn now to look at the London English of my informants in the next chapter . |
| 8 | As they walked up towards the main road , he was surprised to see her turn round to wave at the policemen as if they were old friends . |
| 9 | Instead , he turned away to stare at the picture of her mother which was on the chest of drawers . |
| 10 | The ‘ Birds were due to play , but thanks to ‘ the wrong kind of snow ’ or something erm , did n't ) , a tired and emotional GRAHAM from BLUR , JUSTIN from SPITFIRE and BOBBY GILLESPIE , who , frankly , impressed no-one when he turned up surrounded by a bevy of rock lovelies , swanned through onto the T&C balcony , watched Nick C for a full 12 seconds and then swanned back out again . |
| 11 | He knew there was something odd , which was why he turned round to look into the wings , hoping for some signal from you . |
| 12 | But every time he turned round to look at the black shape labouring after him he was confirmed in the suspicion that Islamic outfits were far sexier than boring old black-leather bras , split-crotch panties or steel suspenders . |