Example sentences of "[pers pn] turned [adv] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I turned politely to the young man . |
| 2 | As she turned on to the dual carriageway that ended only a few miles beyond Naas , the rain spat against the windscreen . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't you get impertinent with me , Miss Honey ! ’ the Trunchbull snapped , then she turned back to the unfortunate Wilfred . |
| 5 | Her grim smile was triumphant when she turned back to the open freight car . |
| 6 | We turned back to the sprawling baggage , so profuse and various it seemed organic , mushrooming in the rich compost of arrivals and departures . |
| 7 | He turned also to the Baltic for timber and wood-pulp , and to the Netherlands for dairy produce . |
| 8 | You , my poor dear lady , ’ and he turned here to the other great detective , ‘ have as one says ‘ raided the vegetable garden ’ . |
| 9 | He turned not to the developing rage for eclecticism , but to the French Renaissance style of the Second Empire . |
| 10 | As he turned back to the eerie blue-blackness of the strip lights in the corridor , Cardiff heard a thick grunt and the slap of someone falling heavily to the tiled floor . |
| 11 | He turned back to the young soldier and patted him affectionately . |
| 12 | He turned back to the young T'ang , nodding . |
| 13 | With Emery Walker he turned back to the Roman types of four hundred years before and to the beauty of woodcut title-pages . |
| 14 | He turned back to the glaring headlights and dimly made out the terrified eyes of the drivers and their passengers . |
| 15 | He turned back to the little beggar girl but she had disappeared . |