Example sentences of "[verb] a turn for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , the weather 's definitely taking a turn for the better . |
| 2 | Thankfully , ‘ Dirty ’ , the Sonics ' recent Geffen album , entered the UK Top Ten during the first week of release and , even if it has a long way to go to equal the sales of ‘ Nevermind ’ , things could be taking a turn for the better . |
| 3 | Gradually his motivations ( like his methods ) took a turn for the worse , and the idealistic young politician turned into a power-crazed monster . |
| 4 | But the weather took a turn for the worse and Lawford suggested that maybe they ought to wait until morning . |
| 5 | The weather took a turn for the worse and we found ourselves driving a very grey , bleak day . |
| 6 | It took a turn for the worse with the reduction in numbers of personnel here at site and was taken from us suddenly in March when the outcome of a company-wide vote [ on what should have been agreed locally ] was announced . |
| 7 | In January 1859 , however , the cause of press reform took a turn for the worse when the tsar appointed a Committee on Press Affairs which smacked of the committee of 1848 . |
| 8 | Barry Hills ' luck took a turn for the better at Goodwood and he 's hoping the same applies at York . |
| 9 | In 1799 , however , things took a turn for the better , for a number of prizes captured from the enemy and retained with the fleet created an acute shortage of officers to command them . |
| 10 | His fortune took a turn for the better in 1968 , however , when he teamed up with Tyrell again who had entered the world of Formula One with the Matra MS10 . |
| 11 | Last season definitely took a turn for the better when Kerslake came , and Kelly has made this season 's success in no small part . |
| 12 | He launched his Wear Borders Knitwear campaign in Edinburgh and promised to wear sweaters until the industry took a turn for the better . |
| 13 | Then when it was realized that things had taken a turn for the worse and somebody was going to get killed the vicar stepped in and bought them all ice-creams . |
| 14 | Anglo-French relations has taken a turn for the worse and Queen Victoria 's enthusiasm for the project evaporated . |
| 15 | I mean he 's not taken a turn for the worse or anything ? ’ |
| 16 | The playing fortunes of David Campese , on the other hand , seem to have taken a turn for the worse . |
| 17 | In fact , he said , since the treaty was negotiated , the outlook for European economies had taken a turn for the worse and national problems now loomed large on the domestic agenda , causing people 's perceptions about the treaty to change . |
| 18 | He could have continued placidly with the life he had chosen , and would have excelled ; but telegrams of a peremptory nature , saying his mother 's illness had taken a turn for the worse and he must come , kept arriving from Colonel Carteret , and Paul had to leave his work , abandon lectures , and make the weary journey to London time and again , only to find Sophia weak but resigned , and reproachful for his having come at all . |
| 19 | This time she had been sent for urgently because Nigel had taken a turn for the worse — in fact , had nearly died after his peritonitis operation . |
| 20 | She seemed to have taken a turn for the worse , her eyes had gone dull and slitty again with a third kind of lid coming half across . |
| 21 | But this morning all that had been forgotten because the budgerigar had taken a turn for the worse . |
| 22 | Since Lemmy 's move to LA , Motorhead 's fortunes seem to have taken a turn for the better . |
| 23 | On a range of third-world issues their policies have taken a turn for the better and are broadly the same as those of Labour — support for the Palestinians , dialogue with the ANC , endorsement of the ‘ safe haven ’ for the Kurds . |
| 24 | Life had taken a turn for the better . |
| 25 | He kept saying how their fortunes had taken a turn for the better from the moment Alice began playing with the group . |
| 26 | ‘ Moreover , the immediate situation appeared to take a turn for the better ’ . |
| 27 | Whilst the latest CBI survey reports a turn for the better in future business confidence amongst UK industry and commerce , this merely indicates that the rate at which businesses are failing has slowed . |