Example sentences of "turn [adv] [conj] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he sees me he pointedly turns away and tries to talk to someone else . |
| 2 | A very large number have been turned away and told to go back home . ’ |
| 3 | Is he aware also that during that time scale many seriously ill patients had to be turned away and had to go to other hospitals and that patients using the unit had to be taken out of it prematurely so that others more seriously ill could take their place ? |
| 4 | He had turned away and tried to avoid his eye , but it had been him , no question . |
| 5 | Instead of turning left over the canal bridge which would have taken him into the village , he turned right and began walking out of the village on the Brookend road . |
| 6 | The men turned together and started to walk back to the hotel . |
| 7 | As his boss turned away and began to stride down the corridor , Dexter noticed a wary look slither into Pargeter 's eyes . |
| 8 | He forced himself to bow politely , and then turned away and began to descend the stairs . |
| 9 | The tall boy turned away and began to pace away down the hill . |
| 10 | Marion turned away and began to pile up assorted biscuits in red and green tins , holly-decked and dotted about with fat robins in honour of Christmas . |
| 11 | ’ He turned away and started trudging through the wet grass in the direction Lesley-Jane had specified . |
| 12 | At the sound of Sophie 's entry , she turned quickly and stood facing her . |
| 13 | Mr Berkley turned aside and began to study the stills of Bicycle Thieves in the portico . |
| 14 | Strange , thought Fergus , turning restlessly and trying to escape the light , strange that throughout all Court history and throughout all Court gossip ( and gossip at Tara had ever been lively ) , that no one has ever referred to Dierdriu 's child , to the heir to Tara who disappeared . |
| 15 | Then she turned again and started to walk away , waiting for the last stone to strike her . |
| 16 | Here 's the Queen Street corner , and you just turn right and keep going full steam ahead . |
| 17 | There seems to be in some patients a failure of recognition of self , and as a consequence the immune system turns inwards and begins to attack selected targets within the body , and when this happens disease may arise . |
| 18 | A mind that can turn faster and keep going longer than that of anyone I know , so Paz , wrote Harsnet . |