turn - use in sentences

Object

  • round: But there was another tunnel, even longer, with restricted usage times, so we decided to turn round and head south.
  • corner: At that moment Cormac turned the corner of the hut, bearing an earthen jar of water on his shoulder.
  • tide: Neither you nor Anglicanism will be able " to turn the tide.
  • clock: We can not turn back the clock to the days when extension pathology was generously resourced.
  • eye: Police, apparently, turn a blind eye to such trifles.

Preposition: on

  • sixpence: Yet fashions in dance can turn on a sixpence.

Preposition: at

  • T-junction: Turn right at a T-junction to cross the bridge and ascend to the main valley road at Mill Bridge.
  • mini-roundabout: Turn right at next double mini-roundabout into Bromham Road.

Adjective modifier

  • sharp: Passage definitely seems to be taking sharp right turn.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • out: The NEC turned out to be worse than any of us imagined.
  • around: He turned around in a circle like a dog chasing its tail.
  • off: The gas is turned off at the oven, by the way.
  • up: I then turned up at the first class session of the module.
  • over: The cards in the magician's hand are immediately turned over to reveal the spectator's selections!
  • down: I reserve the right to edit or turn down what you send in.

Followed by a transitive particle

  • off: Changing play lists, turning off the player, or even changing tracks all resulted in the original material being paused ready for resuming.
  • down: After 200 yards there is a right hand turn down a track.
  • around: Published: 17 June 2003 Kelly vision Chris Kelly hopes to turn around the fortunes of the recruiter which shares his name.. .

Preposition: of

  • century: The system existed for 500 years until the turn of the 16th century when rent payments replaced labor.

Noun used with modifier

  • junction: Follow road to ' T ' junction turn left.

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