Example sentences of "turn [adv] [conj] [vb past] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Artemis , down on her knees , just turned round and stared for a moment , before Rosie took her hand and pulled her to her feet . |
| 2 | Reaching Georgia Street I turned right and walked past the old Hotel Vancouver to the Hotel Georgia . |
| 3 | She had expected him to get a water-taxi , but he turned right and walked along the fondamenta , matching his stride to her slower pace . |
| 4 | Woolley flattened out , turned right and prowled over the surface for about a quarter of a mile . |
| 5 | She turned slowly and looked at the figure in the chair . |
| 6 | He turned over and stared at the sky . |
| 7 | She turned over and looked at the illuminated dial of her alarm clock . |
| 8 | ‘ Piss orf , ’ I hissed at them and they calmly turned away and continued down the street , convinced I really was a genuine cabby . |
| 9 | She half turned away and stared at the horizon . |
| 10 | Matilda laughed and turned away and ran up the path to her front-door , calling out as she went , ‘ Good-bye , Miss Honey ! |
| 11 | With that , he turned away and walked towards the waiting van . |
| 12 | Myeloski turned away and walked to the river-wall , leant against it . |
| 13 | He turned away and walked across the street . |
| 14 | He turned away and stood before the fire , his back towards her and Hari leaned against the wall for a moment trying to recover her breath . |
| 15 | He did n't answer , his silence becoming unnerving , and when she examined his features she was dismayed by the bleakness she saw there ; then , with almost cold deliberation , he turned away and sat on the edge of the bed with his back to her . |
| 16 | With a brief , mocking smile , he turned away and hurried up the steps to the hotel lobby , his back as hostile as a roll of barbed wire . |
| 17 | Miss Danziger turned off and pedalled along the line of the cliff top . |
| 18 | From the front door of the rambling palazzo which housed the pensione she turned left and walked along the Riviera . |
| 19 | ‘ But then he turned left and dived into the ground . ’ |
| 20 | Startled faces turned as they sang , then turned back and looked at the pulpit . |
| 21 | Agnes turned now and looked in the mirror again , and she really could n't believe what she saw . |
| 22 | He turned around and spoke into the room behind him , then moved out of sight . |
| 23 | Then he turned abruptly and strode to the door . |
| 24 | She drew in a deep breath ; then , the cloth still in her hand , she turned about and went into the kitchen . |
| 25 | Alice Conway turned about and walked down the corridor , her hands spread out as if in appeal , her head bobbing as she said , ‘ What 's come over people ? |
| 26 | I turned again and leaned on the panelled bar , flanked by the heraldic street-signs of the beer-pull logos , the tureen-sized plastic ashtrays , the furry , nippled mats that imitate wetness even when they 're dry . |
| 27 | She turned round and looked at the brass-dialled clock sitting starkly on a red brick wall to the side of them and added , ‘ Only half-past eight . ’ |
| 28 | He turned round and looked at the sea of faces . |
| 29 | He turned round and walked towards the stage . |
| 30 | Then on another shot , he had a POW on the drill , who turned round and waved at the camera crew , so that was scrubbed out and done again . |