Example sentences of "turn the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And up from the barbican of the castle , heaving the crowd aside by force on either hand as a plough turns the soil , came the clatter of hooves and a flurry of plumes , and resolved themselves presently into a posse of horsemen , breaking open a clear passage before them with staves , and thrusting the watching crowds back to the walls . |
| 2 | Now the programme that turns the cameras on teenagers and let's them do the talking and the interviews has packed its newest series with just the subjects their viewers want . |
| 3 | Marie steps in front of me and rolls the sleeves up to my elbows and then turns the collar up . |
| 4 | Medlycott turns the ball the most while the dependable Neil Kendrick finished last season much more strongly , displacing Medlycott and taking 10 wickets at Old Trafford . |
| 5 | Kapil Dev is past his prime , Manoj Prabhakar usually only produces one good spell a Test and leg-spinner Anil Kumble rarely turns the ball past the outside edge . |
| 6 | The best way to " lock up " the caesium , to prevent it being taken up by plants and into the food chain , is by spreading the affected areas with certain minerals , most successfully ammonium ferric hexacyanoferrate , or Prussian blue , which turns the hills blue . |
| 7 | Then , because the battery 's used up energy the motor of the car turns the alternator |
| 8 | The extension of the USSR 's geographical writ , with the corollary that ( Brezhnev expressed it ) , Eastern Europe 's borders are ‘ our borders ’ , turns the reliability of Eastern Europe 's ruling élites and their armed forces into a matter of the utmost importance . |
| 9 | The guest turns the pages and is perplexed by some of the photos . |
| 10 | He turns the pages from right to left . |
| 11 | Silently Harry turns the pages over . |
| 12 | ‘ Fit as a fiddle , darlin , ’ and I can hear , faintly , through the twisted frenzy of my own pelvis , a cheerful rustle as she turns the pages of her magazine . |
| 13 | Crilly turns the pages of his magazine . |
| 14 | She gives me time to read the label on the front cover Government Commission Press Department , 1974 — then opens it and slowly turns the pages , so that I can see it is a cuttings book , in which the Commission 's Press Officer has pasted the results of his labours , the stories inspired by all his briefings , handouts and leaks . |
| 15 | It must always have been the case that some problems are inherently insoluble , but perhaps it is the stress on all social services that turns the CAB into the last port of call when all others have failed . |
| 16 | it turns the skin on your arms to gooseflesh . |
| 17 | Mint turns the clock back to a time when sovereign was king of coins . |
| 18 | Mint turns the clock back to a time when sovereign was king of coins . |
| 19 | Mint turns the clock back to a time when sovereigns were king coins . |
| 20 | My purpose here is merely to suggest that the English choral tradition , with its reliance upon young voices ' and its tinge of Protestant Englishness , turns the memories and dreams of a social class into sound . |
| 21 | It may be brine or alcohol and this turns the cheese into what one of my customers calls ‘ garage cheese ’ — smelly ! |
| 22 | She is like a mechanical musical doll that will perform a ponderous dance when someone turns the dial . |
| 23 | A turn of the head or eyes turns the CVR . |
| 24 | Turns the globe in his hands . |
| 25 | I know they can be affected by wind and frost and it turns the leaves brown and kills off the buds , but why is only one affected ? |
| 26 | Robyn turns the ignition key , holding her breath as she listens to the starter 's bronchial wheeze , then exhales with relief as the engine fires . ) |
| 27 | This automatically switches the machine on when it hears a message coming through , recognises the medium being used , and then turns the machine off after the message has been recorded . |
| 28 | ( Crawling to bottom of bed , Peg turns the machine round to him . ) |
| 29 | But the Corrado turns the tables and outshines the Calibra in its unobtrusive engine , betrayed as much by the soft whine of the blower than the engine note itself . |
| 30 | Especially when such a rider turns the tables . |