Example sentences of "he turn the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could hear him turning the key in the lock . |
| 2 | Ritschl was impressed and urged him to turn the paper into an article for publication . |
| 3 | And she let him turn the key and open the door . |
| 4 | Profoundly yet lightly and yet again oh so generously imagined , he turns the novel 's transpersonal unsteadiness to joy for us and sheer astonishment , and its cancer-growth of rumour to life 's health through art 's freedom . |
| 5 | And as to Spasov and being saved — ‘ Il me semble que tout le monde va à Spassof ’ — there is still some comic devillife in him as he quotes the Saviour against his bible-selling saviour because she is taking thought for the morrow , and as he turns the gospel on its head with ‘ Happiness does n't pay me because I start at once forgiving all my enemies . ’ |
| 6 | February He turns the six-yard box into a cartoon strip . |
| 7 | My great friend Mitropoulos had a photographic memory ; the players would watch him and say , ‘ Now he turns the page ! ’ |
| 8 | He turns the stiff , polythene-covered pages rapidly . |
| 9 | He turns the mangle for her and reads her the newspapers , ‘ doing the police in different voices ’ . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , I would predict that we will see Ray 's name in the records books before long , though , perhaps not until he turns the grand old age of 60 in another three or four years and can make a new charge up the age-group ladder . |
| 11 | He turns the voice off , a remedy still available to him , but for how long ? |
| 12 | He turns the pages from right to left . |
| 13 | And so he turns the Galatians to think about Jesus Christ . |
| 14 | He turns the door handle silently , snaps the door open ‘ Bang ’ and leaps into the room . |
| 15 | He turns the page to a fresh sheet . |
| 16 | But home to London , where a newsvendor would not serve him till he turned the camera away , was pretty anticlimactic too . |
| 17 | He turned the shop upside down , smashing stock , breaking bottles . |
| 18 | EVEN after nearly four years in prison ( where , characteristically , he turned the permitted weekly letter to his wife into philosophical essays ) Havel was able to dramatise the dissident 's dilemma with a mixture of recollected pain and resilient humour . |
| 19 | The night before , alone and drunk , he turned the Harley the wrong way on to busy St Peter Street downtown and rode awhile through oncoming traffic until a policeman mercifully stopped him . |
| 20 | For twenty years , while he turned the porn shop of sports into international theatre , attention was paid in a way it never was before or has been since . |
| 21 | He turned the sharpener slowly , keeping his eye on the lead . |
| 22 | As soon as he turned the tap on it started . |
| 23 | He turned the car into Park Lane and drove quickly and skilfully through the maze of traffic converging on Marble Arch to emerge in the correct lane for the Edgware Road . |
| 24 | I watched him until he turned the corner . |
| 25 | The man did the same again as he turned the paper , revealing to Mungo the front page with its lurid headline : ‘ BIRD 'S HEAD CLUE TO GIRL 'S DEATH . |
| 26 | He turned the bread over to grease its upper side , then climbed on a stool to cut another thick wedge from the loaf . |
| 27 | He turned the corner miserably , bumping into Elsie with their fish and chips . |
| 28 | As soon as he turned the corner , I grabbed the wallet and sprinted down the alley . |
| 29 | As he turned the corner away from the house and towards the train station , Endill was sure he saw the shape of his father standing at one of the upstairs windows , watching him go . |
| 30 | What a shock he got when he turned the corner to find the entire corridor overgrown by mountains and mountains of wild plants . |