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Example sentences for "good turn"

  • It's just like you, thinking he's doing her a good turn.

  • Later in the morning, quite casually, he made inquiries of Miss Ottway, who liked Janet and was willing to do her a good turn.

  • The captain's motive had nothing in it but kindness, and a laudable desire to do a good turn to a playmate of his boyhood.

  • I am happy to have been able to have done you a good turn, and at the same time to have served her so well.

  • And must try his best to do a good turn to somebody every day.

  • Eventually I made up my mind that I ought to go back and do my good turn to the man.

  • Gee whiz, we would have been willing to do them a good turn.

  • You did me a good turn, all right," Tom said, with simple gratitude in his tone.

  • They'll have a lot of fun up here, those two troops, and it's a kind of a good turn how I bring them together.

  • If you harm one person to help another, do you call that a good turn?

  • They appreciate that he does this for the sake, not of the Silver Foxes, but as a good turn to the Ravens and the Elks.

  • I don't know where it went, but it did us a good turn, that's one thing.

  • Because a good turn might go wild and cause a lot of trouble.

  • Of a verity Elias Macomber did me a good turn when he started the quarrel with Darius Thorpe, for up to this time I had been sadly lacking in patriotism, as may have been learned from that which is already set down in these pages.

  • I've known your father this many a day, an' would like to do him a good turn.

  • In Chapter 31, Dick Marston says "I did live to do her [Maddie Barnes] a good turn back.

  • And I did live to do her a good turn back--much as there's been said again me, and true enough, too.

  • We're not the only horses that can't be kept on the course--with a good turn of speed too.

  • It was prepared for us, and we walked into it, I am a trifle sick at having done so, but perhaps it will serve us a good turn in the end.

  • He is a young man, and I knew his father, who once did me a good turn.

  • Far shall her way be then, and little fair, Foe she hath hindered me of my good turn; God send her wet and weary, ere she turn!

  • You did Old Man Coyote a good turn and he paid you back by doing you a good turn.

  • He came up here last night just to do me a good turn because I once did him a good turn.

  • I'm just studying what Old Man Coyote means by telling me one day that he is my friend, and proving it by doing me a good turn, and then trying to catch me the very next time he sees me.

  • Then he told Danny how Old Man Coyote had done him a good turn In the Old Pasture in return for a good turn Peter had once done him, and how he said that he always paid his debts.

  • And Burleigh was thinking then and there how desperately in need of a good turn he stood that minute.

  • If I can ever do you a good turn don't you fail to let me know.

  • Having completed this good turn to Mrs. Bartlett he proceeded to do a good turn to himself by bringing forth two sandwiches out of the pocket usually associated with a far more dangerous weapon.

  • Tracking, signalling, good turn, cooking, it makes no difference what.

  • Only Danny, if he did it, had no idea of doing us a good turn.

  • It will give me a chance to do him a good turn.

  • He was sure the old gentleman would bear out what he had said, and Bert felt he would be glad to do him a good turn in part payment for what Bert and his chums had done in catching the runaways.

  • This won his heart and made him wish, as he said, to do me a good turn; but that wasn't ever likely to be in his power.

  • He took pains however, to ingratiate himself with the Irishmen, by being always ready to do a good turn to any of them, very frequently even sharing his grog with them--the highest mark of regard one seaman can show to another.

  • The boys want a little money and here's a good chance to earn it and do a good turn at the same time.

  • Something always gets in the way when you try to swing a big good turn," Roy mused.

  • At any rate, what sort of good turn can a man condemned to death do for any lady?

  • Having fixed things for myself, I thought I'd do you a good turn, too.

  • So you see, Mr. Sturgess, I owed you a good turn, though you never guessed it.

  • I'm sorry I cannot help you, but I want you to do a good turn for a lady.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good turn" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    certain date; good broth; good circumstances; good citizens; good crops; good dame; good design; good disposition; good example; good fairy; good farm; good farming; good handful; good large; good literature; good meat; good offices; good plan; good result; good shape; good soldiers; good sound; good spoonful; good town; good yeast; military service