Sentence examples for bit of a turn from inspiring English sources

She gave the Queen Mother a bit of a turn but a lovely new hip.

Sadly she had a bit of a turn later on – she's diabetic, apparently – so has had to have a bit of a lie down between songs.

"Half way through, the game started, and the eleven took a bit of a turn... Wojciech Szczisnae getting any better Mathieu Flamini Happy Returns Bon Anniversaaron Ramsey Gus for Caesar jolly good fellow Per Mertesanachronism A Kick in the Emmanuel Peteeth Nadir Nasri Nicklas Bendtner Slapstick Vieira Olivier Girooh, dearie me, this isn't going to plan, is it?

That's a bit of a turn off as well.

'The forest industry is seeing a little bit of a turn around.

Generally this is OK, but the oddball description—"the design seeks transport the user back to the golden age of phonographs in early 1900s where sound broadcasting had a magical feel"—leaves is a little bit of a turn off.

"This is a bit of a turn-up, eh?

As he says, it is a bit of a turn-up.

Very odd, and even a bit of a turn-on — as GFS seemed to feel, too: "I look positively debauched there, don't I?" he said.

The handwringing of the phrase "we need more women in … " (politics, technology, football, FTSE 100 companies) has become, even for women, a bit of a turn-off, with its suggestion that women are primarily a problem to be solved.

Its title is a bit of a turn-off, borrowed from the literary critic William Empson - and it seems surprising that such an original writer should want to poach in this way.