Example sentences of "[pron] turn in " in BNC.

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1 We sailed into a murky , airless dawn veiled by the thin drizzle of a Scotch Mist , and I turned in for a few hours .
2 ‘ Just one final nightcap before I turn in . ’
3 As the sea is calm I turn in to a narrow cleft on the headland , cutting the engine and gliding in between the faces of grey rock to let my passengers get the flavour of the sights and sounds of a Shetland geo .
4 I might try and get a bit of work done before I turn in .
5 To welcome the faint dampness of my German feet , as I turn in .
6 As I turn in to the book of Genesis I read there of God coming to Abraham , and saying to Abraham , that Abraham in your family all the nations of the world are gon na be blessed !
7 But the bulky fillings of ten years ago are now for the budget bags only with a new generation of low-bulk polyester waddings now available which turn in much better all-round performance than down .
8 That 's what made it seem all the more strange when she turned in on herself , so to speak , in the end . ’
9 Josie found her when she turned in for work at the club that evening .
10 She turned in , then felt her nerves flutter as she drew up before a timber-built single-storeyed house which was backed by several small chalet-type huts , while behind them were numerous sheds .
11 She sighed as she turned in at her parents ' tasteful wrought-iron gate .
12 Carefully she turned in through the wide hospital gates .
13 Refusing the invitation to go in for coffee , Fran hurried back to the car and drove across town , only slowing when she turned in through the gates of the college and made her way along the rutted gravel path to pull up in front of the old sandstone building next to Luke 's car .
14 Oh you turned in did you ?
15 Yet , when you 've decided you 've had enough action in one night , you can leave it all behind when you turn in from some well-earned sleep !
16 You turn in to the right .
17 ‘ Perhaps you 'd be good enough to make sure the fire 's safe before you turn in ?
18 ‘ Do n't you want any supper before you turn in ? ’
19 He paused in the doorway , ‘ And I wish you joy of your solitude , since that 's what you seem to prefer , but I warn you it 's going to be a wild night , so you 'd better make sure everything is secured before you turn in tonight .
20 and there 's a car on the opposite side of the road as you turn in aha , so you go outside work and then round and ha , ha , oh
21 Why do n't you turn in now ?
22 Erm , although I think we will say that that would be dangerous thing to do and that we should continue to work upon the er the assumption that there erm er overall as a n , a nine percent increase , but , that seems highly unlikely that will succeed , erm What I 've then done is take account of the various staffing changes that there have been during the year , both short term and long term , erm , and you 'll see that produces a figure actually available to us this year of twenty seven thousand five hundred and eighty eight investigative hours , erm which is slightly less than we had last year , er but erm almost not significantly so , erm and it seemed to me therefore that if we were n't trying to reduce times , er , if we were saying that we would turn in times at the end of this year which were the same as the term times we turned in at the end of last year we could probably achieve that without any further recruitment .
23 We turn in , with the wind picking up even stronger and threatening to blow the lavvu away .
24 ‘ Do you expect God to hold back the tide for us to float here all day , then , or do we turn in to Duart ? ’
25 See how they turned in they are , you will never make the grade ! ’
26 They looked perfectly ordinary , and they turned in through the gates and went up the drive .
27 They turned in at the yard of a two-storey stone house which had a red tiled roof .
28 He opened the window after they turned in to the country .
29 They turned in through a pair of eagle-mounted gateposts , then at the end of a long driveway at last drew to a halt .
30 A deep and brooding sense of shame and failure led him to turn in upon himself , withdraw from both his wife and his son , and ultimately during 1920 and 1921 to engage in nightly excursions , disappearances designated by Sartre as " attempted suicides " .
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