Example sentences of "turned the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Goldberg , pushing back his chair , stepping over the piles of papers and magazines littering the floor of his study , scanned the bookcase , found what he wanted , brought the book back to his desk , licked his middle finger and turned the pages , found the passage and copied carefully into the margin : only his mind remains unchanged . |
| 2 | He walked past Claire 's room and turned the corner . |
| 3 | She turned the spray and stained the white front of his shirt blood red , then turned back and slowly wrote ‘ carnal knowledge ’ , ‘ impudicity ’ . |
| 4 | She reached into a cabinet and turned the radio off . |
| 5 | Through the late 1980s another force was at work which turned the Provincial sector 's fortunes further round . |
| 6 | The Giuliani campaign — advised by Roger Ailes , the media guru who turned the Bush campaign around — has been trying to persuade Jewish voters that Mr Dinkins is a clone of Jesse Jackson and no friend of Israel . |
| 7 | After the Western allies turned the western part of Germany into a sovereign state , the Soviets followed suit and the German Democratic Republic was founded on 7 October 1949 . |
| 8 | But it was Johnson who so nearly turned the game in the second period as Giants clawed their way back from an aggregate deficit of 16 points at 46-37 behind . |
| 9 | As we turned the comer , passing the guy [ who had earlier sworn at the police ] , [ PC. 2. ] said , |
| 10 | Under King Charles II Bishop Cosin turned the hall into a chapel after the dilapidations of the Commonwealth general , and gave the medieval windows a clerestory . |
| 11 | You regularly turned the heating up before the intermission , when the icecream girl appeared . |
| 12 | In the words of one contemporary observer : ‘ these cheaters turned the cat in the pan , giving to diverse vile patching shift s an honest and godly title , calling it by the name of law … to the destruction of the good labouring people ’ ( Salgá0do , Cony-Catchers , 15 ) . |
| 13 | We turned the light on The room was full of funny little animals whizzing all over the floor . |
| 14 | More controversial was the manner in which Britain turned the terms of trade in its favour and directly squeezed the incomes of colonial producers by bulk purchasing of colonial products at below world prices . |
| 15 | She turned the light on and got out of bed . |
| 16 | Nathan turned the conversation to the bear trap in the museum , asking Odd-Knut if he had seen it , and soon we were talking about the killing of film on seal killing had been shown , an indictment of the Norwegian sealers . |
| 17 | It was a biting cold that almost turned the pleasure of the riding into a chore , or a want for it to end . |
| 18 | They turned the lights out and sat in fear . |
| 19 | As she turned the corner into Perry Street her heart began to pound . |
| 20 | The brilliance of its colours turned the remembered garden outside into monochrome . |
| 21 | Wexford turned the page to Sunday , |
| 22 | I turned the key in the door and crept in . |
| 23 | Stanley Unwin turned the book down . |
| 24 | The result was chaos : their first skiing holiday ruined by the press , who turned the icy mountain roads of Liechtenstein , where they were staying , into a re-run of the Monte Carlo rally . |
| 25 | But home to London , where a newsvendor would not serve him till he turned the camera away , was pretty anticlimactic too . |
| 26 | The Third Division front-runners , who had already knocked Millwall out of this competition and have not lost at home for 12 months , refused to be intimidated , then turned the tables . |
| 27 | Rickett , to the surprise of the gallery , turned the match round by winning a marathon second set after leading 3-1 and trailing 3-4 before Hakami served for the match at 5-4 . |
| 28 | Rickett , to the surprise of the gallery , turned the match round by winning a marathon second set after leading 3-1 and trailing 3-4 before Hakami served for the match at 5-4 . |
| 29 | He and May put on 187 — a stand that turned the match and indeed the whole rubber . |
| 30 | He turned the shop upside down , smashing stock , breaking bottles . |