Example sentences of "the [noun pl] turn [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For their part , the Allies were happy to see the Germans turn their aggression upon the revolutionary socialists . |
| 2 | Having made such a set at London and subdued any important resistance on the continent the Germans turned their attention to the total destruction of Britain . |
| 3 | The words turned her lip — something of a sneer , something of sorrow . |
| 4 | Although the tapes had been in the possession of the Walsh investigating team for some time , their significance concerning Fiers had apparently surfaced only recently when the investigators turned their attention away from members of the administration of former President Ronald Reagan in favour of concentrating on the connection between senior CIA officials and the Iran-contra affair . |
| 5 | Roman experience suggests that these fears were rational : one cause of the Social War of 91–88 BC was Roman military dependence on her allies ; this dependence was not recognized and rewarded by extra privileges such as citizenship , so the allies turned their fighting experience against Rome herself . |
| 6 | The bread-throwers turned their attention on Lambert . |
| 7 | By July 1941 the war economy was running smoothly and the economists turned their attention to post-war matters . |
| 8 | He saw some of the storm-troopers turn their attention to him and he sprayed them with his MPSK . |
| 9 | Two of the men turned their backs to the wind and driving rain as they checked the driver 's papers . |
| 10 | The men turned their attention to her . |
| 11 | After basic religious toleration was conceded in 1689 , the dissenters turned their back once and for all on Anglicanism and went on to develop the distinctive spirituality which was to play so dynamic a role in the revolutionary social and economic changes of the next century . |
| 12 | The horses turned their heads to look at him , but were not disturbed , except the mare which had been allocated to Gary . |
| 13 | because er train trains them the girls and the boys to turn their toes out , which is what we require in our society I believe . |
| 14 | Then he saw one of the boys turn his back on the man he seemed to be dancing with , hook his fingers in the skimpy underpants , wriggle them down to reveal his bottom and then wiggle the bottom until it shook like a jelly . |
| 15 | Tightening the butterfly nuts on these magnet limpets broke the glass phials , so setting chemical time-fuses ( see Appendix 3 ) before the raiders turned their canoe back to sea on a reciprocal course for the motor launch . |