Example sentences of "turn [adv prt] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About six months after the dinner party she realised that , for the first time in her life , she had turned down a decent journalistic commission in order to start work for a crazy old lady off Ladbroke Grove , whose garden specialised in old roses , and who was insistent about sterilising soil before new plantings . |
| 2 | The Ford Pay claim coincides with negotiations at Vauxhall where leaders of the 9,000 manual workers have turned down a two-year offer giving 9.1 per cent in the first year and inflation plus £3 in the second . |
| 3 | Norwich were trailing Grant , who has turned down a new contract , last season and have maintained their interest . |
| 4 | Former West Indies captain Viv Richards has turned down a lucrative offer to play Currie Cup cricket for South Africa 's Western Province . |
| 5 | Meanwhile the world 's top players have turned down a tempting financial offer aimed at attracting them away from the Ulster Milk Games match between Europe and Asia in Belfast on June 8 . |
| 6 | If we could have turned over a living trilobite we would have seen an array of jointed legs on the underside , and flexible antennae . |
| 7 | Yet in each of those insolvent years they had turned over a good half million . |
| 8 | Dennis the Menace has turned over a new leaf — for a week ! |
| 9 | Enjoying the irony of it , and actually quite pleased to discover that Ryan had n't turned over a new leaf after all , she continued smoothly , ‘ And might I remind you , Ryan , that it was my money in the first place , not yours ? |
| 10 | COMIC Mike Harding saw how Middlesbrough has turned over a new leaf at the weekend . |
| 11 | We know people were treasuring this hope at the time of Jesus , because in the caves of Qumran there has turned up a messianic anthology which includes the prophecy given to David in 2 Samuel 7:14 . |
| 12 | Their mother had been forever running after her with a pencil box or an exercise book or a threepenny piece for church collection , and the maid had turned up a lost doll , a coin , a glove in every corner . |
| 13 | This third and bulky fruit of Sir Ian 's otium cum dignitate ( ’ how to amuse oneself harmlessly when out of office ’ ) has turned out a curious book . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's turned out a beautiful blue , love . |
| 15 | And I must also add that I was a trifle put out , and surprised , because it seemed to me that he was turning down a good opportunity . |
| 16 | Former England batsman Bill Athey is leaving Gloucestershire after turning down a new two-year contract . |
| 17 | And with Deane , you are forgetting the big guy turned down a BETTER contract at Sheff Wed to join Leeds . |
| 18 | That evening she turned down a prior supper engagement , pleading a headache . |
| 19 | ‘ I turned down a new contract at the end of the season , even though it meant getting a testimonial next year because I 've got to be playing in the Premier League to confirm my place in the Irish side . |
| 20 | McCreery left last month after he turned down a new contract . |
| 21 | Voters on Feb. 16 turned down a popular initiative to introduce drastic limits on experiments on animals . |
| 22 | He succeeds Jocelyn Stevens , who turned down a fresh contract , and will pick up his duties with a five-year tenure on 1 August . |
| 23 | But his efforts to bring more women into his administration suffered an unexpected setback when Mrs Edwina Currie , who resigned over the salmonella-in-eggs controversy in 1988 , turned down a senior position at the Home Office . |
| 24 | TURPINS turned over a 1-0 interval deficit to beat Ambulance Services 3-1 in an exciting LCFA Intermediate Cup second round tie . |
| 25 | Instead , kids compare the stats on dogs like Scion , whose total seizure value to date is over $91 million , or Sinbad , who once turned over a camper van on the Mexican border and sniffed out 400 pounds of cocaine . |
| 26 | Besides , if I 'm turning over a new leaf , I need new friends to go with it , do n't you know ? ’ |
| 27 | SIR — In turning over a new leaf , the Labour Party would do well also to turn over a new blossom . |
| 28 | He stopped for a moment , turning over a new possibility . |
| 29 | There is no indication that Hollywood is turning over a new leaf , free of bloodstains . |
| 30 | I think he 's , he 's like the other day when he was here he was talking about how he was turning over a new leaf and stuff . |