Example sentences of "this turned [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This turned around slowly . |
| 2 | There was a big queue , big queue in the Post Office with him I was coming out well when we we got to this turned round and saw her , he 'd scream even more |
| 3 | This turned out to be running an RAF section of the Secret Intelligence Service ; and it was as an SIS functionary that he criss-crossed Germany . |
| 4 | This turned out to be an object lesson in how to lay waste to an Indian Restaurant . |
| 5 | This turned out to be , first , Manchester 's and , subsequently , London 's gain . |
| 6 | On closer inspection this turned out to be the L'Chaim Society , a Jewish good-time gang which presumably also has a stout approach to Judaism . |
| 7 | This turned out to be a male stripper club ( ‘ Not naked ! ’ said one matron , with Mid-Western propriety ) . |
| 8 | This turned out to be a reference to the secrecy surrounding the use of Ossie Wheatley 's power of veto as chairman of the cricket committee to block the reappointment of Mike Gatting rather than David Gower as England captain last summer . |
| 9 | This turned out to be a reference to the secrecy surrounding the use of Ossie Wheatley 's power of veto as chairman of the cricket committee to block the reappointment of Mike Gatting rather than David Gower as England captain last summer . |
| 10 | This turned out to be a list of policy options from which Mr Bush was to choose — with luck in time to unveil a complete plan in his ‘ state of the union ’ message on January 29th . |
| 11 | Unfortunately this turned out to be a wasted effort , as the closure of Arkwright Colliery was announced soon after the first train had used the spur . |
| 12 | This turned out to have been a wise decision . |
| 13 | This turned out to be pottery waste , a surviving memorial to a now vanished china factory in the local town . |
| 14 | Alas , this turned out to be much more difficult . |
| 15 | They may provide a clue by their behaviour even if this turned out later to be merely the secondary effect of some more fundamental energy . |
| 16 | This turned out to be so popular that production was taken over by the English parent company , leaving the colonial off-shoot to resume its original project . |
| 17 | However , this turned out to be , in reality , another part of Kaiser Wilhelm 's expansionist policy , so the concessions were cancelled in 1905 and in 1914 , when Portugal joined in the First World War , all German interests were taken over by the Portuguese Government . |
| 18 | This turned out to be P2653 , the aircraft I had ferried to Malta in June of the previous year . |
| 19 | This turned out to be a very wise precaution . ’ |
| 20 | In one case this turned out to be quite untrue . |
| 21 | Yet although this turned out to be the case and Edna 's and Bert 's spells at Four Winds gave Harriet increasing support , she was still unable to rouse Liza out of her permanent lethargy or to get her further than the garden gate . |
| 22 | This turned out to be 1,600,000 p.s.i . |
| 23 | This turned out to be impracticable , partly because they were needed for training and also had to be moved between aerodromes because of changes in the strategic and tactical situation , but also , more importantly , just how do you build an aeroplane for one flight only ? |
| 24 | The cure for this turned out to be to burn the drain-holes with a red-hot skewer which , of course , gives a clean edge to the hole . |
| 25 | This turned out to be a major administrative problem . |
| 26 | Already they were aware that if this turned out to be true , it would be revolutionary for geophysics and possibly for fusion research . |
| 27 | This turned out to be 3 ¼ hours . |
| 28 | This turned out to be an even bigger disappointment , and showed how few people were really heavily committed to the project . |
| 29 | Thus lawyer B has been characterised as professionally integrated , although this turned out to be a rather mixed blessing for his clients . |
| 30 | This turned out to be a delightfully acid apple green that interacted with the violet corner pieces quite strikingly . |