Example sentences of "turn himself [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his self-education had been very thorough , so that he turned himself into a good Latinist and a good Grecian also , as Pound in Confucius to Cummins acknowledged . |
| 2 | Having begun as a left-arm spinner he turned himself into a fast-medium bowler who frequently took the new ball and who at times could be decidedly nippy . |
| 3 | The 37-year-old man turned himself into a human fireball in front of estranged wife Brenda , 35 . |
| 4 | A MAN turned himself into a human fireball as a protest against Western inaction in Bosnia , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 5 | CHESTER 'S ex-town crier yesterday turned himself into a human fireball outside the office of his former girlfriend . |
| 6 | CHESTER 'S ex-town crier yesterday turned himself into a human fireball outside the office of his former girlfriend . |
| 7 | FORMER town crier Mike Chittenden turned himself into a human fireball outside the office of his former girlfriend . |
| 8 | CHESTER 'S former town crier was continuing his recovery in hospital yesterday after turning himself into a human fireball last week . |
| 9 | In conversations snatched in the backs of taxis between meetings , and in office anterooms , Branson spoke about the process of turning himself into a public figure if the airline were to succeed , fully aware of the consequences . |
| 10 | Its leader , a Colonel Seymour , was charged with committing common assault on Charles Eyres , the leader of the Croydon branch of the organization , after a dispute in which Eyres claimed that Seymour had misappropriated funds and altered the constitution to turn himself into a virtual dictator ; this led to Seymour drawing a sword and pointing an unlicensed gun at Eyres . |
| 11 | Thereafter he became a missionary of heathen Africa , wrote a seminal alchemical text called the Clavicula , and was reputed to turn himself into a red cock when occasion demanded . |
| 12 | He is living proof that an individual congressman with energy and knowledge can turn himself into a foreign-policy entrepreneur . |
| 13 | Jackie Tiptoe could turn himself into a proper gent when it suited him . |