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Simple sentences
Fred and George took turns with the driving.
They take turns at the patient's bedside.
Tom turns thirteen the day after tomorrow.
Tom turns thirteen in two days.
Milk easily turns sour.
We took turns with the driving.
We took turns driving the car.
Mary and her sister took turns at looking after their sick mother.
It seems as if everything he touches turns to gold.
Each time you step on the pedal, the wheel turns once.
Nobody knows why he turns down my help.
The road turns left there.
The villagers serve their own needs by taking turns driving the bus.
This road is full of sharp turns.
Your beauty turns me pale.
The birds ate the bugs taking turns.
The members of the family nursed the patient by turns.
I will be able to see you tomorrow unless something unexpected turns up.
The worm turns.
It will not be long before he turns up.
The old cottage had only one bed, so we all took turns sleeping in it.
Jack and I agreed to work at the office on Saturdays by turns.
We slept by turns.
We took turns driving.
Movie subtitles
And it turns out we can see that.
What's incredible is that it turns out that even in our own little solar system, there are diversity places where there could be life.
If she turns herself in, after 100 times of flogging, she can regain the hope.
Although, now it turns out it might have to be a novella.
I don't know how he disappeared or why he ended up in that refrigerator or how he got that whistle down his throat, but if our investigation turns up anything of interest, I'll be sure to call you.
Turns out he's Polish.
Maureen turns up to see Evan.
Tonight we're going to take it in turns to step up to the front and show all the other Cubs our Treasures From Home.
Going halves on the mantelpiece and the bedside table and taking it in turns to open the curtains and turn the light off.
But it only works when you believe, because once you pull that thread, it just turns into nothing right in your hands.
They take turns.
Every Wednesday at midnight, light turns on and there's strange noise.
Arbaces stabs the priest Meneker and turns the suspicion to Glaucus.
He'll wait for you until he turns blue.
If anybody turns yellow and squeals my gun's gonna speak its peace.
And the boat turns back to pick up some elastics or something and gets stuck in the mud.
Here's where the milk turns to cheese.
Turns my best sitting room into a chemist's shop.
And lo, the worm turns.
But he turns disaster into a house speciality.
And remember. if it turns out that you don't get into a jam, the money is not refunded.
He puts it down. he turns off the lamp.
I have a pretty fair idea. and if this trick turns out right, I'll be sure.
Fate leads you down separate paths, but the world turns and you meet again.
That when I come back and all turns out well you thought all would turn out badly.
Then the sideboard turns around and turns into the bathroom.
But it turns out that Scott outsmarted Gerard by putting.
THAT WAY, IF THIS OLIVER GUY TURNS OUT -- WAIT.
The sensational murder came before the court. and the struggle for Mark's life took many turns.
Sometimes it turns into a roller coaster right beneath your feet.
It usually turns out pretty tragically when something goes wrong.
The first year sees an abundant harvest, but then the soil is exhausted. There's no nitrogen and it turns sterile.
You notice it turns purple. And exudes.. a most unfortunate odor.
Now it turns out he was a messenger.
She turns her back to you, and you look at her.
Everything that vanishes turns up!
Because if he ever turns to me, I won't turn away.
News and current affairs
Now that Chernobyl will be permanently shut down, world attention again turns to Ukraine, this time in hope, not fear.
That sour sense of rejection, felt by many confused youths, turns for some into a fierce desire for vengeance.
Whatever happens, and whoever turns out to be the new leader, North Korea most likely faces an unstable future.
Using local systems and capacities, it turns out, can strengthen them.
If a convict turns out to be innocent, his execution cannot be undone.
Preserving biodiversity, it turns out, is not only desirable; according to three new studies by the economists Anil Markandya, Luke Brander, and Alistair McVittie, it also makes good financial sense, at least for some projects.
But it turns out that the increase in imports from China alone implied an almost equal volume of extra emissions outside the EU.
But that turns out to be spectacularly wrong.
The surreal environment, the amazing chess turns, and the Cold War backdrop made Fischer one of the most famous people in the world that summer.
This may not yet mean Asia for only the Asians; but it could mean a reduced regional role for the US - especially as America turns inward during the presidential election season that starts this year.
Combining hard and soft power into a smart strategy, it turns out, is not easy.
If America's annual rate of improvement in productivity turns out to be higher in the next thirty years than they have been over the past three decades, the country's worries will be few.
Rather than facing up to the issues, corporate America systematically turns its back - aided and abetted by crony capitalism, American style.
And it turns out that growth rates decline in all of these categories as the debt-to-GDP ratio increases, only somewhat more in the last category.
They were not discouraged by his ambivalent perception of them (by turns celebrating their traditional domesticity and glorifying their sexual objectification).
Whatever the theory turns out to be, it is certain to revolutionize physics.
Even when we focus on a simple physical trait like height, natural selection in humans turns out to be a multifaceted and nuanced process.
But, even with a university degree, life in go-go Shanghai turns out not to be as she had imagined.
But those concentrating on the short term risk losing money, because the risk premium will eventually decline when the debt ratio turns around.
Even President Barack Obama, of whom miracles were expected, turns out to be no more than a very talented mortal.
As Australian and Japanese initiatives fade, attention now turns to ASEAN, which has put in place norms for peace that all major powers affirm.
Everyone, including bellicose trade unionists, tends to become more reasonable when the economy turns south.
It turns out that our estimates then, if applied to subsequent data, predicted long-term rates extremely well for the 20 years after we published; but then, in the mid-1990s, our theory started to overpredict.
But it turns out that the basic laws of economics eventually apply after all - even in China.
Much quoted since, this alarming statistic turns out to have been based on a single, unreferenced bullet-point from a report by an environmental think tank.
The consumer-voter, however, will not accept this and therefore turns away.