Example sentences of "turn [adv] [conj] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barbaric England of the scientists , the military men , and the politicians : let us turn away and contemplate the past before all is lost to the vandals . |
| 2 | All I have to do is turn up and see the applicants , ’ she said . |
| 3 | you can either turn left and follow the road for 100yds turning right onto a path above a stream . |
| 4 | and the one who owned the car was itching to get Joe dumped so that he could turn around and make the slow , crawling drive across town to his home . |
| 5 | but you do n't suddenly turn round and go the other way do you ? |
| 6 | ‘ Why here we are all mustarded ’ , as the roast beef said to the Welsh rabbit ’ ; ‘ ‘ Off with a whisk ’ , as the butcher said to the flies ’ ; ‘ ‘ When a man is ashamed to show the front of his face let him turn round and show the back of it ’ , as the turnstile said to the weather-cock . ’ |
| 7 | I 'll give you a room to work in , I 'll turn round and walk the other way whenever I see you , and I 'll stay out of the kitchen whenever you want to use it . |
| 8 | Then , pretending for a moment that he was back there , he would turn round and face the back of his cage , open his wings , and glide down the few feet to where his food lay on the ground , pretending that it was prey and that the few feet was hundreds of feet , and that he could feel strong winds on his wings and was an adult eagle , and free , free to fly where he liked . |
| 9 | If you 'd like to turn round , turn round and address the attentive multitude . |
| 10 | All he could remember was that TOWs were shipped at some point ; that ‘ the price asked for the military was twelve million two ’ ; that the aircraft could turn round and abort the delivery if the hostages were not released , which he thought was ‘ a most unusual thing ’ ; and that it was definitely not ‘ the Khomeini ’ with whom he had been doing business . |