Example sentences of "she turned [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She turned over on the bed and sat up . |
| 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 | Hoping that nothing had gone wrong with the course of her friend 's romance , she turned around on the piano stool as she heard hard , firm footsteps walking along the terrace . |
| 27 | As she turned on to the dual carriageway that ended only a few miles beyond Naas , the rain spat against the windscreen . |
| 28 | Good piece of work , Joe , he thought with some satisfaction , as she turned slowly on the wire . |
| 29 | She turned slowly in the middle of the living room , like a gyrating parakeet . |
| 30 | But actually it does n't tell you anything about the quality of the care which they 're purchasing and the evidence that we are getting increasingly from the community health council is the experience of people of the health service is that actually the quality of the care is getting worse and this is not due to the staff in the health ee the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the e the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the for an operation er , four years , it should to be said er , she 's been waiting despite the government 's claim that all operations are done within two years er for very severe varicose veins and surprisingly enough she got them because of course most varicose have been removed her , the north-east Thames region erm , and er she turned up on the Wednesday and the operation had been postponed twice previously er , she was er gone through all the er , various tests which took her four hours cos she had to find all the places herself , there was nobody to show her to X-ray and various other places erm she was prepared for the op and then was sent home because there was n't a bed available ! |