Example sentences of "turns at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | C-47B-35DK 6865 turns at the Cape of Good Hope , during a formation training sortie . |
| 2 | Iris and Nils continued taking turns at the galley stove with the inevitable result that the dynamo that would run off the free-turning prop when we were sailing arrived by air from the States before the alterations to the drive shaft were complete . |
| 3 | At the beginning of his translation , Mannyng appeals to the reader : His vivid description of the Crucifixion both stresses Christ 's willingness — he climbs the ladder to mount the cross , then turns at the top , laying himself vulnerable and open as he stretches out his arms and back against it — and rams home the shock of pain as the nails are driven in . |
| 4 | It turns at the top and goes straight . |
| 5 | By the time we rolled into Lima it was dark and , though we had taken hourly turns at the wheel , we were all of us limp with exhaustion . |