Example sentences of "turn [adv prt] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crilly turns over and lies with his back stiff and petulant . |
| 2 | At " low " speeds ( less than 100 steps per second in the example of Fig. 4.1 ) the current is quickly established in the windings when a phase is turned on and stays near its rated value for a substantial part of the time for which the phase is excited . |
| 3 | There is a kind of feedback into the black community : stories about going for a job , getting turned down and explaining the failure as caused by being black get fed back to other blacks and so nourish conceptions about the structure of society . |
| 4 | The men lowered core moulds made of orange sand into the boxes , which were turned over and joined to boxes containing the other half of the moulds ( the bottom half was the drag , the top the cope — the first bit of jargon she had managed to master ) and moved forward on the track to the casting area . |
| 5 | One side is then printed and the sheet is then turned over and printed from the other edge using the same forme . |
| 6 | Ireland prop Nick Popplewell ( on floor ) is turned over and dispossessed by Laurent Cabannes as his captain Phil Danaher ( left ) tries to lend a hand . |
| 7 | He 's turned over and started snoring . |
| 8 | It is turned over and mixed in its dry state until a uniform greyish colour . |
| 9 | Then poor Pamela must be turned off and looked upon as a vile abandoned creature , and everybody would despise her , and justly too , Mrs. Jervis . |
| 10 | The heat could not be turned off or regulated . |
| 11 | To produce the latter the inner coffin was placed on to a width of lead which was then cut so as to be three inches larger all round than the coffin itself ; this was then turned up and tacked to the wood . |
| 12 | There had been a further recent development ; only a couple of days ago Herr Hamnett 's brother , another agreeable young gentleman , had turned up and collected his entire belongings . |
| 13 | The most common complaint , however , was that the projects were n't working ; results had n't turned out as hoped , essential equipment had proved faulty ( or in some eases had n't arrived ) and students were left writing up why their project had n't worked out . |
| 14 | Edward was not fond of Sandra ; she was a prissy little girl , always fastidiously turned out and given to exclamations of disgust and revulsion . |
| 15 | American handlers are always smart and well turned out and show their dogs to their best advantage . |
| 16 | If you wear the same thing twice in the same situation you may give the impression that you have one safe set of clothes and that you are only immaculately turned out when relying on that one safe outfit . |
| 17 | There are other times when I 've turned back and felt ‘ gosh no , this is wrong ’ and afterwards thought why did I turn back , maybe I should have carried on . |
| 18 | ‘ When the first High Queen cheated the curse by creating the Enchantment of the Bloodline , ’ said Dierdriu , ‘ the sorceress is said to have turned back and made a curious prophecy . |
| 19 | She 'd circled the block until she 'd found the side alley where the stage door was located , and then after hiding her bag in a dark spot behind a big wheeled trash hopper she 'd turned around and headed back to the coffee shop . |
| 20 | That is , inner cities are perceived as ‘ deviant communities ’ , areas which need to be turned around and brought back into the mainstream , a mainstream that requires little or no restructuring or reform . |
| 21 | The boys leapt out of the motorbike 's path but the rider simply turned around and charged on . |
| 22 | Then suddenly the boar had turned about and hurled it into the air . |
| 23 | She had said , ‘ Better luck next time , Andrew , ’ and had turned about and walked to the door . |
| 24 | Using the corner to steady myself , I slowly and silently turned about and moved to my right , into the blackness of the side alley . |
| 25 | So what 's Yeah but he could have turned round and said No , so what 's he actually done ? |
| 26 | ‘ If they had turned round and said to me , ‘ That 's a good idea , why do n't you do it for us here ? ’ |
| 27 | even up , further up the road to us ca n't , have turned round and said they ca n't sleep |
| 28 | the nitty gritty of it , well I could of turned round and said look , well I 'm actually entitled to half an hour , I should |
| 29 | Some of them have actually turned round and said keep it up Mr , keep it up Mr , we will see the end of it one day . |
| 30 | If he 'd have turned round and said , Look I 'm putting this in the kitchen I 'm gon na be listening to what you 're saying then she would n't minded . |