How To Use Turned out In A Sentence
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As it happens, the setback turned out to be the only hiccup in the 14 race series, and Andy made an astonishing recovery to claim 11 victories in his last 12 race meetings.
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The weather was perfect and hundreds of people turned out to see a 1000 yellow ducks bob their way down the canal.
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Witches, goblins, ghosts, ghouls and some gothic mums and dads were among an estimated 9,000 crowd that turned out for what is believed to be the country's largest Halloween party.
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We've seen how things turned out for Scotland's national football manager; matters are organised no differently in the more modest context that is Scottish shinty.
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The movie had won critical acclaim and is actually one of the few hits that Bollywood turned out this year so far.
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A mummy's pinkie turned out to be pilose asiabell, which she said was good for breathing, provided it was cooked with astragalus (those were the white sections of tongue depressor).
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The paddles turned out to be harmless slapsticks, with holes through the actual paddle part so they could cause a loud slapping noise without hurting.
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How many times has something as fanciful as a unicorn, a yeti, a mermaid or a werewolf turned out to be based on fact?
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My head turns sideways; my eyes turned outwards towards the wall.
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It turned out I was pretty good in science. But again, because of the small budget, in science class we couldn't afford to do experiments in order to prove theories. We just believed everything. Actually, I think that class was called Religion. Religion class was always an easy class. All you had to do was suspend the logic and reasoning you were being taught in all the other classes. George Carlin
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Instinctively, Hunter tried to field the ball barehanded - an unfortunate decision, as it turned out - and incurred a hairline fracture to his right thumb.
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Speckle tracking in migrating cells with retrograde flow had turned out to be more challenging.
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Name one country in history where bolstering people in their prejudices has turned out for the best.
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It turned out to be a cheap pair of spectacles with one red lens and one blue lens.
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Marlix feared they might be immune to his hurricane spell, but they turned out to be immune to arcance spells, including counterspell, which made it harder for us to pull them away to a quiet spot of the hall.
Crossfire in Dire Maul: in over our heads
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Their wedding turned out to be quite an occasion.
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The chemical heating process in producing the so-called pomace oil from olive residues may result in the carcinogen, but pure oil, turned out by mechanically squeezing olive fruits, presented no health threat, the minister said.
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He turned out the light when he left.
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Fire-engines turned out as soon as the fire broke out.
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It turned out that the pork op-ed was something of a prelude to another, larger attack on the local/sustainable food movement: his recently published book, Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly, in which he warns the reader of legions of rabid locavores who would build up irresponsible local food systems and disserve global ecology through their uber-local diets.
Leslie Hatfield: Miles from Nowhere: Why Does James McWilliams Hate Local Food?
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Thousands of people turned out to welcome the England team home.
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It turned out to be a prophetic piece of journalism.
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Since it turned out I spent more time procrastinating instead of actually doing anything, I decided to finally finish my Bachelor of Arts degree.
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Only a minute percentage of plants have turned out to be of medicinal value to humans.
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The fossil turned out to be a composite of the body of a bird with the tail of a dinosaur.
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Ha! you may ask -- he gave his mistress a potion, for the purpose of merely seducing her, and it turned out to be poison -- a _carabin_ like yourselves.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 546, May 12, 1832
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One mystery turned out to have a prosaic explanation.
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The police said he wasn't, they said he was up north, and as it turned out they were right.
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She was leaning with her back against the hotel wall which was papered over with a faded mural, her thumbs tucked in her gunbelt, staring at nothing and everything, including, it turned out, me.
In my New York City, the cops wink at you and mean it.
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The minister's admission turned out to be a spectacular own goal.
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She and Ellen between them had turned out the dining-room, giving it extra spit and polish because of Christmas.
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More than 10,000 Ellen fans recently turned out to cheer on their hero as she sailed her trimaran from Greenwich to Tower Bridge along the River Thames.
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But it turned out worse than that: the 200 submissions were later judged to be totally at variance with the findings of the RAF's own Board of Inquiry into the accident.
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It turned out the lawyers were referring to dozens of adult magazines seized from his home.
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Mainly, everyone there seemed astonished at the number of people who'd turned out.
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Italian turned out to be silly, while the Welshman recalled the gloomier imaginings of the BRONTËS, and in the event came by an appropriately violent end.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, April 5, 1916
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It turned out, however, that Barroso was on belligerent and coruscating form.
Eurozone crisis: European Union prepares for the 'great leap forward'
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It turned out that he'd done some hard years, too, as a revivalist.
HUMAN VOICES
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Smart turned out to be a very large and very friendly hairy headache whose owners were absolutely besotted with him.
Superdog! Action plans that work for a happy and well-behaved pet
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It turned out that they were just locals making a buck or two by lifting the heavy loads.
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The first smash hit of the 2007-2008 Broadway season turned out to be one of the biggest surprises in Broadway history †“Xanadu.†People are calling a hilariously reinvented send-up of the 1980’s Olivia Newton-John film, this irreverent musical adventure, about following your dreams when others say you shouldn’t, spins along to the addictive original hit film score by pop-rock legends Jeff Lynne and John Farrar.
Whoopi Roller Skates ‘Xanadu’
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Nadler turned out to be about my height, trimly built, clean-shaven, and wearing a gray glen plaid suit and a striped tie.
HOPE TO DIE
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As it turned out there happened to be five of them and I was traipsed on up to the casualty unit.
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He had never heard of me, but he was so impressed by the way I sang “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” that he signed me to the label sight unseen, and selected “Boulevard” as my first single for Columbia, As it turned out, it would be one of the few times that Mitch and I saw eye to eye on the subject of repertoire.
The Good Life
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The Rutherford Lab lecture turned out to be a pivotal event in theoretical physics.
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It seems to have turned out well enough.
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You could immediately tell that it had been shampooed, and their hair turned out to be very curly.
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While Disney turned out elegant, smooth, richly detailed work, Ub's stuff looked like high-school doodles.
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My surmise turned out to be right.
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The only justice I can think of in modern who turned out to be more conservative than originally advertised is ByronWhite.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Epstein for the Supreme Court?
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But many companies overpay their taxes because, by the end of the year, they have turned out smaller incomes than expected.
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They turned out a quite creditable performance.
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Fanny was, by all accounts, a fine equestrienne smartly turned out as she sought every opportunity to ride.
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It turned out that many of the letters of recommendation were from nonexistent companies.
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It turned out that Matt's Dad was a naval captain and his mother worked in Hong Kong, so he had to live with his Aunt.
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The mystery guest turned out to be none other than Cher herself.
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The bar turned out to be surprisingly spacious, with a restaurant downstairs, and a bar with an attached roof deck upstairs.
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As it turned out, his sperm count appeared normal but his wife continued to fail to conceive.
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So I kind of rewrote some stuff, and it turned out to be a worship song.
Cross Rhythms
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The project viva turned out to be smooth sailing.
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I'm so glad it has turned out fine.
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His tactics turned out to be sterile, dull and most importantly ineffective.
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There was a huge funeral for him in California, and many many many SEALs turned out to honour their fallen brother-in-arms.
A Real Life Hero
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We had all assumed the miniature stela was one of the fakes that are turned out by the hundreds to be sold to gullible tourists.
LORD OF THE SILENT
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He summoned the police, the van turned out to be packed full of a terrorist's explosives, and the bombs were defused.
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Apparently, Ricky's made-up rumor turned out to be true.
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The fact that so many people still wish Andie had ended up with her New Wave-ish, pompadoured best buddy speaks to how beloved and unforgettable Duckie turned out to be.
Friday List: Ranking the John Hughes characters
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An interesting story, no doubt - but rather incomplete without some discussion of the fact that the fuddy-duddies turned out to be right.
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His release turned out to follow the pattern set by that of the other six hostages.
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That was not so bad, but it turned out that the pedlar was a woman, and she came with a rawhide and camped in the office for two days waiting for Jimmy, while he came in and out of the back door, stuck his copy on the hook by stealth, and travelled only in the alleys to get his news.
In Our Town
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His great love within mathematics was geometry, and this turned out to be his lifelong field.
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They visited a few obscure shops, that turned out to be awesome, including a little old-fashioned taffy shop, where they made fresh taffy each hour, in so many different flavours.
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Turned out the woman had been convicted of fraud, and her alma mater was the continuing education program at the women's state prison.
Hire With Caution
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It's a type of chili Lydia invented, based on garbanzo beans, and it hasn't turned out too well.
HOMELAND AND OTHER STORIES
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What should have been a slam-dunk if Walker's proposal was really as extreme and disaffecting as unions claim turned out to be an even split," he continued.
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Officer Raymond said crews faced the death-wish teenagers every time they turned out along a certain stretch of road.
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Well I might have put too little gelatine for this volume of fruit/cream mixture, especially when I tried to make the mousse in jelly molds, as it turned out a bit too soft.
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It would not have helped if he had turned out to have been a pretty accomplished rock climber.
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It turned out that 33,000 fans thought he was the Cubs' first batgirl, but - with the exception of one cruel future Cy Young winner - all the players told him stories in the dugout about when they had had long hair.
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If that's not the case - well, it's a lot of money to spend on what, for me, turned out to be an almost imperceptible difference.
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In 1999, a prediction that 60 percent of the harvest would be lost turned out to be optimistic.
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Howie didn't have an act but he got up there, almost on a dare, and ad-libbed what turned out to be the funniest set of the evening.
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Eighteenth-century prints caricature George III as a farmer, laugh at Hanoverian German accents – yet the same crowds who laughed at the printshop windows turned out loyally for coronations.
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It seems to have turned out well enough.
Times, Sunday Times
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The stables turned out to be remarkably solid structures for a travelling circus, made mostly of wood with canvas roofs.
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The whole town turned out to welcome the team home.
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He has had his fingers burnt by deals that turned out badly.
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The vet just called to say she had to euthanise the baby chough, because it turned out s/he had a broken wing as well as the leg and the wing was too damaged to fix.
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The problem turned out to be rather less tractable than I had expected.
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My findings turned out to be less positive than I expected, and it's an indicator of how much more detached I feel from my job these days than I used to that this doesn't bother me unduly.
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I received two; one had been opened and read by somebody else, and one, as it afterwards turned out, had been burked at home before forwarding.
The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton
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It turned out to be malignant melanoma.
The Sun
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Their wedding turned out to be quite an occasion.
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His release turned out to follow the pattern set by that of the other six hostages.
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Participating in the agoge regimen was considered prestigious and even non-Spartan families from aristocratic backgrounds, desired for their sons to be included, as agoge consistently turned out strong and powerful leaders.
Becky Lee: 21st Century Spartans : Does Violence Beget Violence?
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Turned out a less thoughtful newspaper was giving away giftwrap.
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She turned out to be warm and witty and committed to the cause.
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Rae, 32, was among a pack of celebrities who turned out to support the label founded by U2's Bono and his wife, Ali Hewson.
The Seattle Times
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One mystery turned out to have a prosaic explanation.
Times, Sunday Times
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In fact, they turned out to be even more right than they suspected; they were predicting upticks in illegitimacy that were much more modest than what actually occurred - they expected marriage rates to suffer, not collapse.
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That turned out to be fanciful thinking as instead I found myself in a warm and cheerful place with assistants hard at work and a kettle on the boil, and if there was a funny smell it was, Polly assured me, just her lamb stew at lunch, not the waft of an odorous beast she'd flayed.
Kisa Lala: Sculpting Corpses: A Conversation With Taxidermy Artist Polly Morgan
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Concrete decisions on vital improvements to the road, rail and air networks have taken decades and too regularly turned out to be an ill-judged compromise between opposing interest groups.
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I couldn't believe it when the other woman turned out to be my next-door neighbor.
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An abundantly mustachioed local in a bar - the police chief, it turned out - asked him home.
Times, Sunday Times
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And if such turned out to be the case, wouldn't it prove that the scoutmaster was a wonder at guessing things that were
Boy Scouts on a Long Hike Or, To the Rescue in the Black Water Swamps
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Do you remember when Burnley were justly famous for the young players they turned out, seemingly week after week?
Times, Sunday Times
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It turned out I was pretty good in science. But again, because of the small budget, in science class we couldn't afford to do experiments in order to prove theories. We just believed everything. Actually, I think that class was called Religion. Religion class was always an easy class. All you had to do was suspend the logic and reasoning you were being taught in all the other classes. George Carlin
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There was a horrible crunching noise which turned out to be The Chief's dentures cracking in two.
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They were candidly surprised by how well it all turned out and my office no longer elicits derisive or doubting commentary.
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It turned out to be a bit of a chicken night for me as the curry was chicken too, but it was a very tasty plateful and the chips were cut like big scallops and were nice and crispy around the edges.
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The whole town turned out to welcome the team home.
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The script may vaunt Eduardo and demonize Zuckerberg, but it also begs the question -- who would we rather be, given the way things turned out?
Elizabeth Nicholas: There Goes Your Social Life
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Rusty turned out to be a personable fellow who loved to work horsehide into trusty tools to tote handguns.
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Käkisalmi, also known as Kexholm, turned out to be at the mouth of the Vuoksen River, where it flowed into Lake Ladoga on the Karelian Isthmus, not far from the old Swedish city of Viborg.
Red Wolf
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Sure enough, when we arrived at the bus station it turned out that the last bus had already left.
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And as it turned out, what I truly wanted was to be back with my baby, my best friend, my soulmate.
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It turned out that keeping hens was utterly simple and rewarding.
Times, Sunday Times
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The result turned out to be so hard to understand that the novel acquired an aura of profundity by virtue of its sheer incomprehensibility.
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I was returned out of the valley aliue, they reuerenced me much, saying that I was baptised and holy, and that the foresayd bodies were men subiect vnto the deuils infernall, who vsed to play vpon citherns, to the end they might allure people to enter, and so murther them.
The Journal of Friar Odoric
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The liquid turned out to be distilled morning glory seeds, which contain traces of lysergic acid.
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Meanwhile the players dressed to thrill when they turned out for their thrash at the hotel following their 1-0 win.
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Boys who had been truanting and priding themselves on being cheeky and ‘hard ‘turned out to be brilliant at woodwork.
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It turned out to be caused by a faulty washing machine in the rented flat upstairs.
The Sun
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I had to swallow my words when the scheme turned out to be a great success.
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Only two judges have been turned out of office since Wyoming adopted this method of judicial selection nearly twenty years ago.
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The glam TV star always looks well turned out, but will she be able to dress up her dishes as smartly?
The Sun
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He just picked something he liked and it turned out to be great (red, and starts out with "hagg" but I can't remember how it finishes).
Recent Reviews Near San Francisco, CA
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On Sunday July 20 hundreds turned out to pick their way over the myriad of food and trinket stalls.
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_spavin_, during the last hunting season, he was sold for a __machiner; but being since fired and turned out, he had come up all right, and was now, according to coachee's disinterested opinion, one of the best hunters in the kingdom.
The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life
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He then ran for the senator and lost, so that qualified him of course to run for president, and he turned out to be the greatest president in American history.
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The waitress who greeted me when I arrived turned out to be a former colleague of mine.
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It turned out to be an innocent farm truck, its elderly driver left writhing in the dirt.
Times, Sunday Times
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What should have been a propaganda coup for Germany turned out to be the opposite.
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And I'm far from the only one who has been flimflammed by articulate, accomplished candidates who turned out to be psychotic, fascist, or just plain useless even before the ink was dry on their personnel forms.
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As it turned out, the city needed gravel for a public works project, so crews hauled away seven truckloads.
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As events turned out, we were right to have decided to leave early.
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Can she be a lady that is turned out of all her beray? [
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6
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Nor, perhaps, did they wish the supernatural to meld with the sexual, as otherworldly beings turned out to be alluring mortal women in flimsy garments.
Scott Repatriated?: La Dame blanche Crosses the Channel
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The single daughter of a single mother, she'd turned out better than anyone in Plano, North Dakota, had expected.
A THEORY OF RELATIVITY
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We discovered a little-known mountain area near Ohau, and did a walk up the Temple valley which turned out quite exciting.
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But it turned out to be a ferry and this was confirmed by radar maps and ship timetables.
The Sun
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Turned out to be a full-scale war.
Times, Sunday Times
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It turned out instead that the throng had assembled to praise, not to bury him.
The Passion of Michel Foucault
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As it turned out, and to gusts of relief within Number 10, rather the reverse happened.
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Rangers have thrice stuck three goals past Dundee this season, though that 3-1 win at Ibrox in January was initially a lot closer than it turned out.
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Einstein ditched aether and replaced it with spacetime, which turned out to be a physical object with its own degrees of freedom (that's general relativity).
About: The Progressive Diminishment of Man
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It came with a red-hot sauce and two pieces of meat which looked like knee cartilage but turned out to be school rubbers.
BLOOD IS DIRT
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Hiring a nanny has turned out to be the perfect solution.
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Unbeknownst to me, the bib that got put so swiftly around my neck when I arrived, turned out to be attached by leads to the back of my chair and I nearly garroted myself.
Tortures and Rewards « Tales from the Reading Room
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His greatest strengths - the uncompromising determination, sharp-tongued irreverence, and unblushing idealism - turned out to be critical flaws.
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I quoted the bit about the delimiter-separated values file format being being better than CSV to a co-worker once and it turned out he'd contributed the section when ESR had it up on his website for comments/additions/corrections.
Insightful Book: The Art of UNIX Programming
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He walks with an awkward gait, his right leg turned out from birth, and he is sharp and selfish and snorts; a bachelor alumni of the finishing school for quiet men.
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The prosody of the language is very euphonic, and for the first week of classes (an hour every day), we recited what we thought was a prayer but turned out to be the paradigm of the verb “to go”.
F is for First Lessons « An A-Z of ELT
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The job turned out to be harder than we thought.:The house they had offered us turned out to be a tiny apartment.
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The argument turned out to be of longer duration than normal, and Lucien practised with Jeopardy for seven consecutive days.
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It turned out that she'd been the object of so much attention that she had to hide in the girls' room to get a breather.
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Turned out she had no interest whatsoever in photographing me.
THE DUTCH BLUE ERROR
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My original intention was to study all morning, but this turned out to be impractical.
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Two suspects were driving away in what turned out to be a stolen two-door sedan.
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It turned out that being absorbed in something to avoid relationship problems was a family trait.
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An exhibition of geological data and samples organised at the Museum auditorium has turned out to be a big draw for school children in the city.
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If a slave turned out not to be a virgin, the buyer had a legal case against the seller.
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Fortunately, it turned out they too spoke the international language of prog rock or whatever musical abomination he was riffing on at the time.
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The region of the so-called neck is outwardly divided into five divisions, and sixthly comes the flattened portion at the end, and this portion has five flaps, or tail-fins; and the inner or under parts, into which the female drops her spawn, are four in number and hairy, and on each of the aforesaid parts is a spine turned outwards, short and straight.
The History of Animals
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It turned out to be a good indication of what would happen in the final.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nobody thought that he had turned out a great inventor.
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But it turned out that that was a 15-month year, because we realigned the accrual accounting.
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As it turned out, it was half-buried under the Iraqi sand because it had been abandoned, it was empty, no evidence of WMD found there, nor evidence that WMD had been manufactured there.
Think Progress » Even Though Bush Used False WMD Claims To Justify Iraq War, Rove Claims They Dealt With ‘Reality’
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There was somebody in especial – a man you cared for and might have married if he had been a finer sort of chap than he turned out to be? '
Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land
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It turned out that she was doing the work of fishery guardship on that part of the coast.
The Riddle of the Sands
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It turned out I had a violent allergic reaction to this sulfonamide drug.
Pat York: A Homeopathic Solution to the Gulf Leak?
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10 000 people turned out to welcome the world champion.
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Ottawa isn't known for it's headbangers, but it seemed that every metalhead in the city turned out for this show.
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It turned out that the mushroom he'd thought was a common cep was the rare and highly toxic deadly webcap.
Times, Sunday Times
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The news report about the explosion turned out to be false.
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Everybody bought some just because the goods were cheap; but they turned out to be faulty — they say fools rush in.
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So I dumped a great girl and got involved with what turned out to be the psycho beast from hell.
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But as it's turned out, divers have become the Grey Nurses' greatest friends.
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This whole thing turned out to be destructive to our relationship for more than three years.
Christianity Today
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Surprisingly this all turned out to be quite fun, but I was still happy to return to the chocolate-box beauty of Aix after my reluctant taste of reality.
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My cabbie turned out to be an out-of-work dentist, and I couldn't quarrel with his diagnosis.
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• You can see Jay Rayner's film about the Matthew Walker factory, and how his pudding turned out, on The One Show, Friday, BBC1, 7pm.
Move over Heston Blumenthal, I know how to make the perfect Christmas pud
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Prospects perked up when I broached the first of my rapidly warming cans and heard loud singing from what looked like a pub but which turned out to be Sunday service at the Salvation Army.
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The party turned out to be a huge disappointment.
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In front of 39,000 supporters, they turned out a display that was uninventive, effortless and depressingly poor.
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I doubt that they believed in the equitability of fate - especially when their only son turned out to be no more than another burden in their already overburdened lives.
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Furthermore, Ambassadorial Scholarship turned out to be more than just a way to pay for tuition.
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This has, in fact, turned out to be a wonderful escape clause for dishonest employers everywhere.
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Not only could fat be wrung out of the bread, there were dark foreign objects within its matrix, which upon further investigation turned out to be little globules of maple syrup.
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The party turned out to be a quiet affair.
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You can imagine my utter disbelief then, when the cab turned up and turned out to be driven by a grey haired, short man of about fifty years of age.
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Name one country in history where bolstering people in their prejudices has turned out for the best.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their ceremony turned out to be on the same day as a bicycle ride through central London.
Times, Sunday Times
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As it turned out, Dr. Jackson was going to join me and two other colleagues in a daylong trip to a research clinic evaluating a purported energy-medicine device.
The Sacred Promise
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As quixotic ventures go, the symphony has turned out well.
Times, Sunday Times
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The guy turned out to be a spy, and the information Novak passed on was therefore suspect.
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As it turned out, they had now penetrated the inner hatch and still had not tripped an alarm.
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The two men turned out to be members of a vicious gang of four armed robbers who were responsible for eight separate shootings and 20 hold-ups throughout West Yorkshire.
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Once, after boasting how little petrol his car used to go round the mountain, a crowd of people turned out asking Sam to prove it.
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The biopsy from one of the nine healthy Crohn's disease twins turned out to be inadequate for immunohistochemical evaluation.
