Example sentences of "[was/were] turning out " in BNC.
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| 1 | I threatened to put him on a discipline charge because whenever the drunks were turning out , you 'd find him in the station writing some trivial bike without a light . |
| 2 | These now formed , with the former king , a three-man invasion committee to plan the military operations while shipyards from Brittany to Provence , and factories in Toulon and Brest , were turning out the shipping , munitions , clothing and harness needed . |
| 3 | Ignored and forgotten , Jess moved closer , fascinated by the way things were turning out . |
| 4 | Both guitars share Mr. Donahue 's preferred neck profile , medium-deep and noticeably ‘ V ’ shaped , not unlike the ones Fender were turning out in late ‘ 56 and ‘ 57 . |
| 5 | She was not all that sure that things were turning out so well with Nicky , but she was ready to admit that everything else about the south was idyllic . |
| 6 | Surely no supporter actually believed Bobby Charlton , Justin Fashanu and Tom Finney were turning out for United ? |
| 7 | She was pleased with the way things were turning out . |
| 8 | They were turning out into the village street again now , leaving behind them the stone ranks of the dead , with their propitiatory offerings of flowers and foliage . |
| 9 | And as he had n't at first referred to the wedding-dress , last night or until they 'd reached the spinney that morning , so he did n't refer now to the fantasies of Timothy Gedge that were turning out not to be fantasies at all . |
| 10 | ‘ But what about your own work ? ’ she enquired tentatively , not at all sure she liked the way things were turning out . |
| 11 | They were turning out raw youngsters last season in the Ulster league and there was no way they could survive . |
| 12 | I did n't see it this morning when I was turning out your room . ’ |
| 13 | The nuthouse was turning out to be quite cosmopolitan with a Cockney and a German as well as the locals . |
| 14 | The President might not want them , but sense , and democracy , required it ; so while part of the NSC was on fire with the President 's wishes , another part was turning out position papers of a hopeless and reasonable kind . |
| 15 | It was turning out to be a day unlike any other he had spent at Gibbet Hall . |
| 16 | He also called for a full investigation into Orkney 's Social Work Department , and the RSSPCC whose involvement was turning out to be very much more fundamental than had at first been supposed . |
| 17 | Theo had been confiding his disappointment with the way his life was turning out , and Vincent quickly swept in with an indictment : ‘ It seems to me that the whole art business is rotten . ’ |
| 18 | Amazing , when you thought about it , but it was turning out to be an amazing war . |
| 19 | They may have been glad , since she was turning out to be hard to amuse , that she slept deeply in the early afternoons . |
| 20 | Dorrainge was turning out to be very meddlesome . |
| 21 | In a backyard shack in a Dallas suburb , and outside of normal working hours , he was turning out custom-built metal detectors that were of such advanced design for their day , that they wee superior to many of the commercially available machines of the time . |
| 22 | Being an artist 's model was turning out to be somewhat more traumatic than she had anticipated . |
| 23 | It was turning out to be quite a good day . |
| 24 | Stef was turning out to be very trying ; she seemed unable to accept that one love can finish just like that — poof ! — and a new one begin . |
| 25 | Quite glad to abandon what was turning out to be a very wet hunt , she walked with the little girl back to the hotel . |
| 26 | By January 1941 a Central Statistical Office was turning out regular reports on production figures , inflation , consumption and manpower resources . |
| 27 | The evening was turning out to be much more enjoyable than she 'd anticipated . |
| 28 | This assignment that , initially , had seemed simple and straightforward was turning out to be no such thing . |
| 29 | The young man looked startled that what he 'd thought was just a speck in his eye was turning out to be something much more serious . |