Example sentences of "and [adv] turned [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Some may have regretted the excursion and eventually turned back for home . |
2 | In another murder case , after a 19-year-old youth had been found guilty of a stabbing murder in Oakley Street , a woman who had given crucial evidence against him was ill-treated by neighbours and eventually turned out of her Oakley Street home amidst ‘ a terrible scene ’ . |
3 | Neither of them spoke as Dalgliesh negotiated the track and finally turned on to the higher road . |
4 | But he is intent now on presenting Instead , he preferred to dwell on his newly manufactured a softer image and even turned up for his press conference in an , admittedly immaculate , white tracksuit instead of his normal £2,000 Saville Row variety . |
5 | She constantly pestered him with telephone calls , messages and even turned up at his home . |
6 | There was n't a single man who was n't there all spruced up and well turned out at this awkward hour . |
7 | He not only met them off trains , got taxis , and frequently turned up at theatres to see how they were getting on , but would also dip into one of his baskets and present each Girl with a bar of chocolate . |
8 | The excess of Government expenditure in that year over the yield of taxation was forecast to be £1 billion and actually turned out to be just over £1and1/2 ; billion . |
9 | But he was alert and sparkling , his motor well and truly turned on by the presence of Catherine Crane , and he probably was n't going to go home till he , or Catherine , dropped in their tracks . |