Example sentences of "turn [pers pn] [adv] [conj] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they had done her back , they turned her over and set to work on her front . |
| 2 | I turned her round and let her fall into it . |
| 3 | Casually , Juliet turned it over and read the words . |
| 4 | and it was just a case of erm pot luck , I would sort of brought it out and looked at it and , er no it was n't cooked , it was cooked on the edges so I turned it over and turned it round and put it back in again . |
| 5 | so turned it round and come back , this bloke pulls up in this er well three , three litre |
| 6 | As a matter of fact , he hated anyone to get to the post before himself , needed to be the first to turn them over and sort them out . |
| 7 | And do n't think you 're going to turn them out and slope off . |
| 8 | Often , even after insisting that everyone goes back to the launch point , there will be barely enough people to hold all the gliders down , turn them around and re-park them if the wind changes . |
| 9 | ‘ I take all the bad things — and the good — and turn them round and use them in my singing , ’ she says . |
| 10 | Do you have to walk miles to turn him out or bring him in ? |
| 11 | Because , because you told me to turn it over and watch something else . |
| 12 | He was trying to turn it round and make it sound positive . |
| 13 | Just turn it up and enjoy life … celebrate it . ’ |
| 14 | Just turn it up and enjoy life … celebrate i |
| 15 | ‘ You find you a 40 gallon drum , chop the top out with a hammer and cold chisel , turn it over and make four big holes with the pointed end of a pickaxe . |
| 16 | I think they 're bound to respond to that , I mean , as you turn it over and keep going on . |
| 17 | Turn it round and show Maggie . |
| 18 | Ian : I turn it round and try it the other way . |
| 19 | and turn it round and force it to look backwards |
| 20 | I 'm not turn it off and re-wind the fucking thing . |
| 21 | It did not matter that Ben could not physically see the pages of the journal : in his mind he could turn them anyway and read the tall columns of cyphers . |
| 22 | His cord trousers are still rolled down round his ankles and get in the way and we have to stop and turn him over and pull the trousers back up , fastening them by one button . |
| 23 | He is one of those players that when he gets the ball can turn it on and do something magic . |
| 24 | Then we can turn it on and see if it all works . |
| 25 | Mark : I 'll turn it over and see if it works . |
| 26 | can you turn it round and get it behind your back ? |
| 27 | It goes on there , well done , let's turn it round and see the whole , whole thing , there you are , there 's a great big picture of with his tail falling off , there we go . |
| 28 | ‘ But even though they had nothing at the ports , if you offered one of them a bar of chocolate or a pack of cigarettes they would turn it down and tell you to send it to the Front . ’ |