Example sentences of "turn [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They took it in turns to breathe in the smoke , as the substance sizzled with a malicious delight . |
| 2 | I noticed that the Barwick men took no chances this time ; as the pole lay in the field it was wired up to an electronic burglar alarm system , but they still took it in turns to sit up and keep an eye on it . |
| 3 | Alexandra , Lyddy and Janet took it in turns to sit up at night with her . |
| 4 | It was a tiny cell , so we had to take it in turns to sit down . |
| 5 | There were so many journalists covering the Orkney story that they set up a pool system and took it in turns to go in . |
| 6 | Then , against all her better instincts , she stopped and slowly turned to look back down Lyra Street . |
| 7 | Jesus half turned to point out something . |
| 8 | After Millie had turned to run back into the house , Ben said , ‘ So that 's what he wanted . |
| 9 | Hence , a sequence of shots might be : mother and toddler together on sands , toddler crawls out of picture leaving mother watching to see where it goes cut ; an older child digging a sand castle cut ; closer shot of mother looking out of picture in opposite direction , turns to look back in direction of off-frame toddler , cut from her to toddler who is now well on way to the sea cut ; father getting to his feet to go after child , pan with him as he sets off and catches up with the wanderer , they start to walk back to mother cut ; the older child carries on with its castle-digging ( see pages 62–63 ) . |
| 10 | He turned to go out of the room . |
| 11 | People surged forward and back ; the Man realized he was needed and turned to go out of Woil 's cage , probably thinking that if he left the door ajar for only a moment Woil was too placid and safe a bird to try to escape . |
| 12 | Now we had n't rehearsed this so I turned to go off , only he called me back . |
| 13 | She shivered and turned to go in . |
| 14 | I turned to go back . |
| 15 | Marion Aluinn , smiling , turned to go back up the beach , caught her foot and staggered . |
| 16 | As I turned to go back , the wheelbarrow was far away , perhaps half a mile , the black and yellow stripes just discernible . |
| 17 | Benny turned to go back home as usual . |
| 18 | Duncan turned to go back into the room . |
| 19 | Her shoulders slumping , she turned to go back in . |
| 20 | ‘ Until this evening , ’ he said huskily , and turned to go back the way they had come . |
| 21 | As she turned to go back inside , she saw something white lying on the hall floor . |
| 22 | He turned to go back along the gallery , then stopped and looked back at her . |
| 23 | When the bell sounded he dropped his gloves and turned to go back to his corner . |
| 24 | Athelstan turned to go back into his church just as a young pursuivant turned the corner of the alley , slipping and sliding on the ice as he bellowed the friar 's name . |
| 25 | Merrill did n't hear the rest as he hurried away , before half turning to fling over his shoulder , apparently as an afterthought , ‘ Three minutes , Miss Stanton , and I 'll be with you . ’ |
| 26 | Jos shook his head , turning to go back to the van . |
| 27 | Turning to go back to her own house to oversee her own arrangements for departure , she realised how little good the summer had done Mrs Browning . |
| 28 | As Allen turned to clamber down he spotted through a gap in the leaves a thin spiral of smoke not far off to the east . |
| 29 | As one , they turned to continue on around the side of the house , Hector racing along before them . |
| 30 | The frustration turned to anger on more than one occasion . |