Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] turn [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not needing any more we turn back to the shore . |
| 2 | The ladies ' timing is impeccable : usually they turn up on the day that social-security cheques are due to arrive in the post . |
| 3 | Carefully she turned in through the wide hospital gates . |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't you get impertinent with me , Miss Honey ! ’ the Trunchbull snapped , then she turned back to the unfortunate Wilfred . |
| 5 | Then she turned back to the reporter . |
| 6 | Then we turned off into the heart of the plain at Ponte Taro , a small hamlet , for the final stage of our journey . |
| 7 | They follow the drive , heat from the cracked tarmac rising in their faces , then they turn off along the path , dry grass scratching her legs . |
| 8 | But then it turned round towards the open stable door and went back to its place in the darkness , |
| 9 | The phone kept ringing and no one there , and then he turned up on the doorstep . |
| 10 | Then he walked heavily on for a pace or two until his tracks merged with the cart-way , then he turned back along the ruts to the stream and did the same thing again , more lightly this time . |
| 11 | Sh and she really , and she makes me laugh when she said , talking to someone and when they start working again she turns round to the next person at the other side of her ! |