Example sentences of "she turn [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 2 She turns quickly on the balls of her feet to meet the advance . |
| 2 | She turned right into the High Street then jumped from the cycle and began pushing it up an alleyway on her left which led into the stables cum car park at the rear of the Berkeley Chase Hotel . |
| 3 | She turned hastily from the light of that smile and slid the credit card into the crack between the door and the frame . |
| 4 | Weeping , she turned away as the prince , trying manfully to hold back his tears , was led away . |
| 5 | She turned away from the clinical whiteness of one successful firm with its forbidding elderly receptionist , to the old-fashioned chaos of another with its smell of coffee and everyone being informal and helpful . |
| 6 | As she turned away from the house , into the lane , she gave a shudder of relief . |
| 7 | She turned away from the mirror . |
| 8 | She turned away from the theatre photograph and stared , hostile , at the bus in the way an elderly person will crossly confront a jutting paving-stone on which he has stubbed his toe . |
| 9 | She turned away from the road and started treading her way through pebbles towards the ocean . |
| 10 | She turned away from the door , stood irresolute outside the door of her own cabin . |
| 11 | It was n't until she turned away from the elms that Artemis realized she was not alone . |
| 12 | The only reality of the event had been her mother 's reaction , which was silent , grim , and grudging to the last ; not a tear did she shed , and after the funeral , as she turned away from the graveside and started to walk slowly through the cemetery mud she set her mouth in that prophetic way , and straightened her thick body , and then , as she passed a gravestone announcing that death is but a separation , she opened her mouth and said , " Well , he 's gone , and I ca n't say I 'm sorry . " |
| 13 | It was when she turned away from the window that she saw it . |
| 14 | She turned away from the door , and fell into salt water , right up to her neck . |
| 15 | As she turned away from the limousine , the last thing Katherine felt like doing was laughing . |
| 16 | Her cheeks burned and she turned away from the window . |
| 17 | Reluctantly she turned away from the window . |
| 18 | She turned away from the mirror and , putting her cosmetics in a vanity bag , opened the door . |
| 19 | She turned away from the window , closed her case , caught up her jacket and bag and walked to the door . |
| 20 | With a resolute nod at her reflection , she turned away from the bouncing curls and lightly freckled face and began to undress for bed . |
| 21 | She smiled as she turned away from the tempting sight of him , holding the swaths of cotton around her as she crossed the room and picked up his hairbrush to untangle the knots from her hair . |
| 22 | She turned away from the window , sighing wearily as she glanced round the room . |
| 23 | She turned away from the mirror with a sound of disgust . |
| 24 | Raising her mug , she turned again to the telegraphist at her side , giving him her most brilliant smile . |
| 25 | She turned again to the stove and shovelled coal from the scuttle . |
| 26 | Good piece of work , Joe , he thought with some satisfaction , as she turned slowly on the wire . |
| 27 | She turned slowly in the middle of the living room , like a gyrating parakeet . |
| 28 | She turned quickly at the sound of my footsteps on the gravel . |
| 29 | He glanced at Belinda as he spoke and she turned quickly to the glucose monitoring kit to put it away . |
| 30 | With relief , she turned left down the tow-path towards the Amy Roy . |