Example sentences of "it was [pron] turn [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Now it was her turn to lapse into thought . |
| 3 | She might sleep then , until he shook her gently off his shoulder , because it was her turn to drive and his to sleep . |
| 4 | It was her turn to look puzzled . |
| 5 | Her voice tailed off ; it was her turn to appear uncomfortable . |
| 6 | When Constance woke up , he was sound asleep and it was her turn to stare . |
| 7 | It was her turn to laugh ‘ Where did you learn such an expression ? ’ |
| 8 | It was her turn to laugh softly , throatily . |
| 9 | It was her turn to phone Daphne this evening . |
| 10 | It was her turn to hiss the warning now . |
| 11 | When it was their turn to pose they were true professionals . |
| 12 | 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 … |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It was their turn to do the talking ; he would manage better without Bacci now . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | To my annoyance , I found it was my turn to flush . |
| 19 | Once it was my turn to hit but I was just sitting on the ground and was thinking about something else . ’ |
| 20 | It was my turn to lay back . |
| 21 | Last week it was my turn to talk about my past ; in order to become conscious of my pain , in order to understand what 's happening now and why . |
| 22 | After three weeks it was my turn to go to the delivery ward at Fulmer . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It was my turn to go to the bank for the wages and I remember going back to the shop saying King George VI had died . |
| 25 | It was my turn to narrow my eyes . |
| 26 | ‘ It was my turn to get Marcus 's this year . |
| 27 | It was my turn to shrug . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Sleep is the only cure for such turbulence , but it 's difficult to achieve , and Mick was hardly rested by the time it was his turn to lead in the dampness of the new morning . |
| 30 | Now it was his turn to reach for the phone . |