Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] [conj] turn " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christopher Ray began to choke and turn blue after the candy-coated ball lodged in his voice box . |
| 2 | Christopher Ray began to choke and turn blue after the candy-coated ball lodged in his voice box . |
| 3 | In the wives ' hostel Jocelyn finished unpacking and turned to look at the other occupant of the room a pleasant woman of thirty five who had introduced herself as Jane Smith . |
| 4 | The short lines seem to enact this movement : ‘ When you said ‘ ears ’ the swing seemed to stop and turn back … |
| 5 | Then the mirror began to move and turn , and a big dark hole opened in it . |
| 6 | In school the girls kept whispering and turning round to look at me ; Liza had told everyone . |
| 7 | Isambard had halted and turned in the passage , frowning a little , in two minds whether to go back to him , but in the end he did not ; he merely waited for a little while , listening until the torrent of defiance had grown strangely shaken and softened with moments of entreaty . |
| 8 | When they heard that multitudes in Samaria had received the word of God , they gladly sent them Peter and John ; and when they heard that in Antioch a great number had believed and turned to the Lord , they at once despatched Barnabas who , when he came and saw , rejoiced ’ ( McGavran 1959:25 ) . |
| 9 | Gesner stopped talking and turned round , his eyes narrowed . |
| 10 | Ken Russell took the removal of restraint and stiff-upper-lip repression that American finance had encouraged and turned it into a distinctive aesthetic style . |