Example sentences of "and turn [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just for a moment , standing by the window , dropping the edge of the curtain he had lifted and turning back towards the cot , Adam saw the picture again , saw it with an awful clarity on the darkness before his eyes . |
| 2 | Quadrant Park is a great , glitzy three- storeyed chasm of a club in Bootle , which on Saturday nights becomes a suffocating fleshpit of 2,500 north-western ravers tuned in and turned on to the house sound of Merseyside . |
| 3 | He gave a quick , curt nod to the soldiers on duty and turned on to the Al Ain road . |
| 4 | The driver revved up enthusiastically and turned on to the October Bidge . |
| 5 | He had a pale face , deep blue eyes , hair darker and straighter than hers , and a mouth which curved and turned up at the corners in an almost feminine way . |
| 6 | He arrived at 1.30am on the first day , slept for a few hours and turned up at the clubhouse to find he was in the field . |
| 7 | He was happier with this , though , than with his rather over-pan-fried John Dory , which was dry and turned up at the edges . |
| 8 | Very flat on the bottom and turned up to the bow and that 's what the salmon fishers used in the in the rivers for pulling their nets in and fishing salmon on the . |
| 9 | They had left the path and turned up by the side of the long Nissen hut when Len paused and , half turning to Joe , he said , ‘ You know , you still did n't answer my question earlier on information concerning one Joseph Jebeau . |
| 10 | She took off her clothes and turned round in the moonlight . |
| 11 | The former were blindfolded , and turned around on the spot to scramble their sense of direction . |
| 12 | The cool air caressed her bare arms , and Folly shivered and turned back towards the house . |
| 13 | Spencer smiled and turned back into the room . |
| 14 | He looked at her bleakly and turned back into the kitchen . |
| 15 | The Chargé waved a hand and turned back into the group . |
| 16 | He surfaced from his thoughts and turned back to the room . |
| 17 | ‘ Let us hope his butler was too drunk to remember faces , ’ he said shortly , and turned back to the work . |
| 18 | He swung the gun up again , fired wildly at that thrashing form and turned back to the staircase . |
| 19 | He rose unsteadily and turned back to the shattered windows , breath coming in sobs . |
| 20 | Bob became embarrassed at his own effusiveness , and turned back to the screen , tapping out the rhythm with his fingers on the side of his glass . |
| 21 | Iris , seated at the dressing-table , paused in the act of brushing her short , mouse-brown hair , glanced briefly through the window and turned back to the mirror without comment . |
| 22 | He glared at Maggie for a second longer and then gathered the reins and turned back to the door . |
| 23 | Shrugging off the thoughts with his greatcoat , he threw the latter over one of the two big tables and turned back to the fire . |
| 24 | Lady Usk watched him wend a hasty path towards his wife and turned back to the window to find that Miss Kyte was standing stock-still on the terrace , staring in at her . |
| 25 | Midwinter came into the frame of the door and turned back to the room beyond to clap gently with his white-gloved hands . |
| 26 | Killion glanced at him , and turned back to the Scotch thistle . |
| 27 | She looked me up and down and said , ‘ Oh , it 's you , is it ? ’ and turned back to the wicker hopper on the bike , delving into its depths with both hands , surfacing with long packages wrapped in newspaper . |
| 28 | For a fleeting moment , she wondered if the woman might have given her deliberately wrong directions but , shrugging the thought away , she started the car and turned back in the direction from which she had just come . |
| 29 | This clock can be turned on by the START signal , causing the motor to run at a stepping rate equal to the clock frequency , and turned off by the STOP signal , in which case the motor is halted . |
| 30 | They descended the switchback road and turned off in the valley towards the church ; which stood in its walled graveyard , solid , square-towered . |