Example sentences of "[pers pn] turned [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I turned towards the boar again . |
| 2 | I turned towards the voice and saw a slender young woman hurrying towards me . |
| 3 | I turned towards the voice to see a small dark number with gleaming black hair and flashing eyes to match . |
| 4 | Shep , almost on his knees , tail tucked well in , shot back into his kennel and I turned toward the farmhouse to wash my hands , |
| 5 | He was sitting in his jeep as I turned into the driveway . |
| 6 | I left Taff at the entrance to the farm and watched him as he continued along the road then , as he clambered up the grass bank and disappeared among the trees , I turned into the farm . |
| 7 | As Sergei went off to call his old friends , I turned into the lounge area where tea was being served , and found Surkov and Masha there . |
| 8 | A tribe of stray cats scattered as I turned into the yard where Ellen 's apartment lay . |
| 9 | As I turned into the street I felt conspicuous , to say the least , in a red Porsche and wished I was driving a ten-year-old Japanese saloon like most of those rusting away on both sides of the road . |
| 10 | It was eight-twenty when I hit Wilshire and a mile or so further on I turned into the Avenida San Vincente . |
| 11 | I turned into the boy with iron teeth |
| 12 | In one such mood I turned for the first time to Marcus Aurelius . |
| 13 | I turned on the parking lights and drove slowly forward . |
| 14 | So I turned on the TV to find the news , but they had n't found out who had been on board yet |
| 15 | When I turned on the dishwasher or washing machine , the power required was taken out of the underfloor heat and returned to it immediately the machines were switched off . |
| 16 | I rolled out of bed at eight o'clock and went to the bathroom where I turned on the taps for a hot bath . |
| 17 | I turned on the smile . |
| 18 | I was in a car with my wife-to-be and we turned on the radio ( I turned on the radio really — My wife could n't care if Leeds went bankrupt tomorrow ) to find out that Leeds were 3–0 down with 15 minutes to go . |
| 19 | We were to do it from Friday to Friday but I turned on the tapes on , when was it |
| 20 | I turned at the door and said , ‘ Just write the truth , tuan Hans , that will be the message . ’ |
| 21 | Then I turned to the other side of the coin — the Civil War that might break out , even if Reunion were voted in by a majority and approved by the Dáil . |
| 22 | I turned to the arts page which , every day this week , contained interview-portraits of two festival writers . |
| 23 | I turned to the gang and waved them on with my hand . |
| 24 | I turned to the front of the book . |
| 25 | In the end I turned to the longbow of England . |
| 26 | So , I turned to the devil 's picking method — free-arm — and it sounds fine . |
| 27 | When I 'd completed this process I turned to the mirror to look at myself for a last time . |
| 28 | Toby first — and I turned to the back pages of the Daily News . |
| 29 | Ritually I turned to the back pages of the Daily News to see a picture of a grinning Brian Harley holding the habitual poster-sized cheque beside the equally cheerful sponsor . |
| 30 | I turned to the waiter who 'd brought me . |