Example sentences of "[pron] turned [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I turned politely to the young man . |
| 2 | I turned off to the right through the row of trees , and just as I was meandering past thy rhododendrons I shouted , ‘ Hell and damnation ! ’ |
| 3 | I turned off to the right . |
| 4 | I turned back to the harbour to wait for him to go away . |
| 5 | I turned back to the phone . |
| 6 | After crossing several fields I turned down to the right to follow a metalled road for a while until I reached the first real treat of the day , the Roman road . |
| 7 | Raising her mug , she turned again to the telegraphist at her side , giving him her most brilliant smile . |
| 8 | She turned again to the stove and shovelled coal from the scuttle . |
| 9 | As she turned on to the dual carriageway that ended only a few miles beyond Naas , the rain spat against the windscreen . |
| 10 | He glanced at Belinda as he spoke and she turned quickly to the glucose monitoring kit to put it away . |
| 11 | She turned lithely to the music and saw that the blue-eyed girl in the golden dress was watching her very coldly . |
| 12 | She turned pointedly to the man on her other side , who had been introduced to her as Harry . |
| 13 | At the end she turned off to the right and there was I with nothing to look at . |
| 14 | As she turned back to the changing room , Nora caught her arm . |
| 15 | ‘ Do n't you get impertinent with me , Miss Honey ! ’ the Trunchbull snapped , then she turned back to the unfortunate Wilfred . |
| 16 | Her grim smile was triumphant when she turned back to the open freight car . |
| 17 | She turned back to the mirror , made a great show of powdering her nose . |
| 18 | Pascoe pictured the woman watching the man out of sight before she turned back to the phone . |
| 19 | She turned back to the body . |
| 20 | She turned back to the space through which she had entered , all the while trying to calm herself . |
| 21 | She turned back to the house and resumed searching . |
| 22 | She turned back to the typewriter to avoid looking at his face . |
| 23 | She turned back to the magazine . |
| 24 | She turned back to the constable . |
| 25 | She turned back to the left-hand side of the door and there , between Cross and the Diocesan Handbook , was the light green cover of the list of members of the Society of St Sylvester . |
| 26 | She turned back to the letter . |
| 27 | The other girl made no attempt to hide her disgust as she turned back to the books lying before her on the table , and Rory felt her spirits sink still further as she headed for the door . |
| 28 | She turned back to the man slumped in a chair in the cubicle . |
| 29 | Then she turned back to the reporter . |
| 30 | She turned back to the salad , chopping herbs for the dressing as if she had Penry Vaughan 's neck under the blade . |