Example sentences of "[conj] it be [pron] turn [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's past his peak as a tennis player , so it 's his turn to stay at home . |
| 2 | Hammers reckon they were robbed … but then again Swindon have suffered the same fate this season … so it was their turn to sing and dance … |
| 3 | Once it was my turn to hit but I was just sitting on the ground and was thinking about something else . ’ |
| 4 | Right it 's all play and it 's your turn to draw . |
| 5 | After 11 years , 175 episodes and 26 Emmy awards Boston 's most famous bar is closing and it is our turn to watch this specially extended final episode . |
| 6 | After 11 years , 175 episodes and 26 Emmy awards Boston 's most famous bar is closing and it is our turn to watch this specially extended final episode . |
| 7 | When Constance woke up , he was sound asleep and it was her turn to stare . |
| 8 | And it was my turn to go wide-eyed , for the leader was a woman , possessing every anatomical aspect of femaleness in glorious Amazonian splendour . |
| 9 | She might sleep then , until he shook her gently off his shoulder , because it was her turn to drive and his to sleep . |
| 10 | The stance consisted of a couple of sprouting pegs but little else ; Mick 's home while it was my turn to try to link unlikely sequences of free and aided moves up the next 40 metres . |
| 11 | If you 're a single mum you may be able to take your children with you when it 's your turn to sit . |
| 12 | When it 's your turn to contemplate your ultimate yacht , and you 're considering a Little Harbor on the basis of hull design , appearance , construction , finish , attention to details , and performance , ask one more question . |
| 13 | When it is my turn to use the phone , I stand for a minute with two ten pence coins in my hand . |
| 14 | When it is your turn to shoot , declare whether you are firing a single shot or a volley . |
| 15 | To play the COOPERATE card means to play the female role when it is your turn to do so . |
| 16 | When it was their turn to pose they were true professionals . |
| 17 | St Mary 's led by three points at half-time despite the assistance of a strong breeze , but De La Salle managed to score only twice in the second-half when it was their turn to enjoy wind advantage . |
| 18 | the other hand he accepted the ministrations of Rosalba with pointed gratitude , looking up at her when it was her turn to bend over him , though she did not need to bend from the waist , wand-like as her sister , but rather leaned her plump body forward to adjust some dish , brush off some crumbs with a dithery movement that suggested — again he felt a stab of pity , followed by impatience — that her own body was always in her way . |
| 19 | When it was my turn to mime , I tended to concentrate on Popular Communicable Diseases , Well-Known Poisons , Famous Mass Murderers and Great Natural Disasters . |
| 20 | My open support of the Irish struggle , reading pro-Sinn Fein poems at school assembly when it was my turn to choose a reading two weeks after the Birmingham pub bombing caused more than a little outrage and several stern pep talks , culminating in threatened expulsion from the headmistress . |
| 21 | Dennis had given us a rough time in the previous two Tests and so I started to chat to him to get him in a favourable mood for when it was our turn to bat . |
| 22 | When it was our turn to go in , we found Our Father looking sinister in the candlelight . |
| 23 | Pitt had been a critic of both the principle of deduction at source and the rescheduling , but they proved their worth and he retained them when it was his turn to present a budget in 1805 . |
| 24 | The casket had been specially made to the measurements of Osiris and when it was his turn to get inside it was exactly right for him . |
| 25 | Chirac did n't even know where to go while Le Barre was speaking on an empty white platform with no chairs , and when it was his turn to speak he had no chance of a good clean start because he had to shake hands with Le Barre as they passed on the stairs . |
| 26 | When it was his turn to putt , I told him , ‘ Inside right lip and soft , on the toe ’ . |
| 27 | Certainly from the spring of 1918 Lenin was almost obsessed by the need to get grain to the cities of the north-west , for it was their turn to starve at that time . |