Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] be turn " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roman was hoping to treat Stephen for six months , but an application to the extension of his visa has just been turned down . |
| 2 | One platform in the Viking field has already been turned into an unmanned unit . |
| 3 | ‘ To be honest , no really well-founded scheme has ever been turned down on a financial basis . |
| 4 | But when it came to sport New Zealand has always been turned in . |
| 5 | Impact The power has now been turned on which means the clubhead is going to smash through the ball . |
| 6 | Two-and-a-half years later it has now been turned down . |
| 7 | That house might well have been here that big house just there across th in there which has now been turned into flats . |
| 8 | ‘ All in all , we now believe that the corner has indeed been turned , although it would be a brave man who would say so categorically with the UK economy still in such an uncertain state . ’ |
| 9 | The application for an extension has again been turned down . |
| 10 | A proposal by the unit to investigate engineering research has recently been turned down by the Social Science Research Council . |
| 11 | One of the duke 's groundsmen advised me to reconnoitre a nearby converted abbey which has recently been turned into a hotel . |
| 12 | I 'd just been turned down for yet another job , hardly any money left — desperate , I was , and out comes your grandfather , asks me what 's wrong . ’ |
| 13 | All they could do now was to turn Moat Hall upside down in the forlorn hope something remained in the near-derelict place to hint at its erstwhile owner 's present refuge . |
| 14 | And all he could do now was to turn in horror as that bellowing , roaring shape lunged with an encrusted claw through the metal stair-rails , which bent and squealed . |
| 15 | The trap to be avoided here is to turn the exercise into another source of demand by forcing yourself to go faster every day , swearing that you are going to beat your partner next time , or overdoing it with the weights . |
| 16 | The form that the Host 's japing takes here is to turn to " Chaucer " , the pilgrim-narrator , and to demand his tale . |
| 17 | A test paper which she should have found easy was turned in uncompleted , with ‘ I ca n't do this , sorry , ’ scrawled at the foot of the page . |
| 18 | Then the mill acted as something of a milling centre , grinding corn and animal feed for surrounding parishes that lacked milling capabilities or , like Eastington , whose mills had long been turned over to the woollen trade . |
| 19 | The Fifties book had already been turned into a stage play by the author and Willis Hall in 1960 . |
| 20 | Just as he could have received promotion over the years , but had always been turned down in favour of someone younger . |
| 21 | A statement said there was a spontaneous abortion and the life support machine had now been turned off . |
| 22 | The world had simply been turned upside-down . |
| 23 | ‘ The developer is seeking the release for housing of a one field width strip parallel to the Glebe Road which had previously been turned down by planners . |
| 24 | This region was one of those most affected by the depopulation of villages and hamlets , several having recently been enclosed ; large numbers of poor in parts point to consequent loss of employment , although it is not clear whether people had actually been turned off the land or the townships had gradually contracted . |
| 25 | ‘ Most of them would have treated it as a nice little Christmas story about this powerful but sad woman with an unhappy family Now it 's all been turned into major crisis . ’ |
| 26 | It is the characteristic of the kind of Governments that have just been turned over beyond the line , in Europe . |
| 27 | The requests have always been turned down usually for financial reasons . |
| 28 | The minutiae of its English outcrop from Dorset to Yorkshire have probably been turned over by more loving hands than have touched any equivalent heap of sediment elsewhere . |
| 29 | The tables have now been turned . |
| 30 | Thus each double stranded DNA molecule in the original sample has been melted to form two single stranded molecules , which have then been turned into two double stranded molecules . |