1. The government did an about-turn over nuclear energy.

2. These new measures indicate an about-turn in government policy.

3. This is the Government's second about-turn on the issue.

4. Foreign businesses welcomed the about-turn.

5. The decision was seen as an about-turn for the Government.

6. I'd only gone a little way down the street when I remembered I hadn't locked the door, so I made/did a quick about-turn and ran back to the house.

7. We all want progress. But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man. C.S. Lewis 

8. Woolley turned a corner and saw Colonel Hawthorn instructing Corporal Hemsley in the about-turn.

1. I'd only gone a little way down the street when I remembered I hadn't locked the door, so I made/did a quick about-turn and ran back to the house.