Example sentences of "turn [adv] [conj] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been looking at Mick , but turned slowly and looked at Joe , and smiling slightly said , ‘ Yes ; yes , of course . ’ |
| 2 | She turned slowly and looked at the figure in the chair . |
| 3 | He turned over and stared at the sky . |
| 4 | She turned over and looked at the illuminated dial of her alarm clock . |
| 5 | She half turned away and stared at the horizon . |
| 6 | ‘ Luke will , ’ Anna said unfairly , turning away and looking at her beautifully dug earth , and thinking how much she would just like to lie down on it and sleep . |
| 7 | Startled faces turned as they sang , then turned back and looked at the pulpit . |
| 8 | Then they turned back and looked at me . |
| 9 | Her father turned back and looked at her . |
| 10 | She turned now and looked at her mother , adding , ‘ He … he was coming to see you at Christmas . ’ |
| 11 | He turned around and stared at her with that insufferable thoroughness , which was downright rude , but about which she could n't complain . |
| 12 | It 's sad , you know ’ — she turned about and looked at Peggy ‘ It is sad when a mother outshines a daughter , and aims to do it to the extent of trying to fascinate her son-in-law . |
| 13 | The man turned round and looked at Robyn with startled eyes . |
| 14 | She turned round and looked at the brass-dialled clock sitting starkly on a red brick wall to the side of them and added , ‘ Only half-past eight . ’ |
| 15 | He turned round and looked at the sea of faces . |
| 16 | Father Kipling stooped and said a few words to them as he passed into the sacristy to vest , and they turned round and looked at Clare . |
| 17 | I turned round and looked at him , wondering why he was bothering with such an easy question . |
| 18 | She turned round and looked at them . |
| 19 | In fact , on all the windows wired up now , and I walked up to him , and I just said , would you like to give to me , son , and he turned round and looked at me , and to my great surprise he gave it to me . |
| 20 | She flicked a pink anemone at him through the hatch and it hit his cheek so that he turned round and winked at her . |
| 21 | He turned round and smirked at his squad car with a woman police constable in the front . |
| 22 | As he turned round and smiled at her , she was struck by his looks . |
| 23 | The old man sitting in his chair by the window turned round and smiled at him . |
| 24 | She turned round and smiled at him , in a watery fashion , because her eyes were near to tears . |
| 25 | Then she turned round and smiled at Michael . |
| 26 | Then on another shot , he had a POW on the drill , who turned round and waved at the camera crew , so that was scrubbed out and done again . |
| 27 | It is a salutary exercise to turn around and look at the Fifties and the Cold War from the East instead of the West . |
| 28 | ‘ And I would ask you , Mr Stevens , to turn around and look at that Chinaman . ’ |
| 29 | This manoeuvre exposed the Russian Fifth Army 's flank to Auffenberg 's Fourth Army , still advancing northward , so Conrad commanded it to turn about and strike at the left flank of the Russian Third Army . |
| 30 | The window 's shut and he turns round and looks at me . |