Example sentences of "[pers pn] had turned [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had turned away from the food-processing factories and chemical plants spewing bilious yellow smoke to gaze towards the east , to the mouth of the Estuary where the river ran out into the North Sea . |
| 2 | She had turned away from him and he wondered whether she might have dozed off . |
| 3 | But she had turned away from her high window and demanded he scale the ivory walls without her help . |
| 4 | He had turned away from her a little and she could not see his face . |
| 5 | Just at the time when they should have been giving most to each other , he had turned away from her , and in its way that had been almost as painful as the loss of her mother . |