Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] turned [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | About 30 journalists turned up at the Thai border village of Pong Nam Ron , about 200 miles east of Bangkok , yesterday morning , but were told by the local Thai military commander that he knew of no Vietnamese prisoners . |
| 2 | FORMER England batsman Bill Athey has had his request for cricket 's equivalent of a free transfer turned down by the Test and County Cricket Board . |
| 3 | Subsequently this craft turned up on the south west coast of Southern Ireland and was proved to be a regular smuggler in those waters . |
| 4 | Oh I do n't , I just , I remember that er if you walked down er Road at night you 'd see him with his mortar board on and his curate by his side coming down to post the letters , and then when all these ladies were in Sammy shop one night being entertained by Sammy erm Father and his curate went by , and old Sammy turned round to the audience and said well if dressing up will get him anywhere they 'll be on the first row in heaven . |
| 5 | Ace half turned back to the shuttle , pointed towards the sprouting hemisphere ( like chunks of cheddar stuck all over half a grapefruit , she thought ) , and aimed the suit towards the shape that looked like the nose of an asteroid cruncher . |
| 6 | Wimbledon boss Joe Kinnear after just 1,987 fans turned up for the Coca-Cola match against Bolton |
| 7 | To discover the electron is rather different from discovering the kangaroo , because it is a theoretical entity inferred from certain abstruse experiments ; and Thomson 's apparently crucial experiment turned out in the twentieth century not to be so . |
| 8 | Entire villages turned out for the spectacle and in Györ , the Bishop himself headed the assembled burghers . |
| 9 | I remember one day on the 8th there was a little dinghy turned over on the lake and he hooked his tee-shot , hit the boat and came out on the fairway — the shape of things to come ! |
| 10 | Keep your left knee turned out to the side , and place your hands through the gap in front of you on the floor . |
| 11 | Sixty fishermen turned out for the competition on Rutland Water , which had opened for the new season only four days earlier , after an initial stocking with 40,000 trout . |
| 12 | She looked aghast , tried to defend her view and then grew apologetic saying that newspaper offices were n't like others , the most extraordinary things turned up in the post all the time and it was reflex to laugh them off and throw them away . |
| 13 | Their talent for self-promotion ensured that many people turned up at the Ritz to witness the intriguing spectacle of The Smiths falling on their collective backsides . |
| 14 | ‘ I need one too , please , ’ Stuart said and the tall assistant turned back to the shelf . |
| 15 | Pauline 's wide , full mouth turned up at the corners . |
| 16 | No sooner had a special train , carrying 633 people who had taken refuge at the West German embassy in Warsaw , arrived in Hanover yesterday than at least 200 more refugees turned up on the embassy doorstep . |
| 17 | We used his PA system which was a bit ramshackle , but it worked — that was the main thing — and about 25 people turned up in the little mock Tudor , oak panelled dining room that was part of The Three Tuns pub in Beckenham . |
| 18 | On August 22nd only 6000 people turned up to the London demonstration called by the Special Conference . |
| 19 | Between 5,000 and 10,000 people turned out to the council display at Walton and 15,000 to 16,000 were reported at Sefton Park . |
| 20 | That afternoon two more carcasses turned up at the northern end of Butterwick Low , and another two were reported from the Norfolk coast , close to Cromer . |
| 21 | Big crowds turned out around the 1.46 mile city centre circuit , covered eight times after the international field had already done 105 miles over tough territory in Yorkshire and Lancashire . |
| 22 | Federalist countries such as Belgium and Italy recoil from this idea , as they want interior-ministry work turned over to the EC . |
| 23 | On Jan. 11 Cambodian officials turned over to the USA remains thought to be those of two US servicemen killed during the Vietnam war . |
| 24 | We found one part of the delivery bed in the labour ward but the other part turned up in the children 's ward . |
| 25 | Two riders turned in at the approach to the castle , the rest of the cavalcade swept onward through the gate , flung open to give them passage , and vanished in a flurry of spume and fine mud along the foregate . |
| 26 | More than 40,000 fans turned up for the 12-hour event , Britain 's biggest-ever legal Rave gig . |
| 27 | The two aides turned back into the offices , and Edouard and Jean-Paul walked slowly down the wide steps to the street . |
| 28 | Twenty-six teams turned up for the sporting events which included bowls , mixed netball , darts , 5-a-side football and the ever popular It's-a-Knockout and Superstars events . |
| 29 | Two thousand , seven hundred people turned up for the opening session of Object World ‘ 92 in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago , Katy Ring was one of them . |
| 30 | The bloody jacket was sent south as a trophy and the mangled remains turned over to the embalmers . |