Example sentences of "turning [pers pn] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Now you 'd better start turning me into a space-station commander . ’
2 She 's turning me into a wild animal .
3 If a week of being looked after had gone such a fair way to turning me into a drivelling weakling , it was just as well I had n't let Dottie tempt me to any more of it .
4 Do n't miss out the l or you 'll start turning me into a Parisian grocer .
5 SIX people accused of kidnapping a teenage girl and turning her into a human torch appeared in court yesterday .
6 Now he was turning her into a stammering schoolgirl !
7 Behind him , lightning flared , turning him into a stark silhouette against the windows ; flooding the reception with white light .
8 UNEP , it is worth recalling , was born out of the 1972 Stockholm conference ; the 1992 anniversary conference will be the time to consider turning it into a full-blown UN agency with more funds at its disposal .
9 McDonald outlines it thus : ‘ A : find the best artists you can ; B : keep them in a creative mood so that they make the best records they can , and C : maximise the sales of the records everywhere without turning it into a real form of drudgery for them . ’
10 After a while , though , dismissing her memories , Ruth began to like it ; the sun was behind the mist , turning it into a glimmery silver haze ; and at least it was a different sort of weather .
11 Even the simplest VAT eats up 2–4% of its revenues in administrative costs ; the BTU tax may eat up as much as 10–20% , turning it into a full-employment programme for bureaucrats .
12 When this happens , some people respond by pouring paraffin over that fire , turning it into a blazing inferno ( i.e. panicking , hyperventilating , catastrophizing , avoiding , etc. ) , while others sensibly dampen down the blaze with a wet blanket ( i.e. relaxing , thinking positively , goal planning , problem solving , and self assertion ) .
13 He largely reshaped this family business , rescuing it from near bankruptcy in the 1860s , extending it into tinplate in Monmouthshire , carrying through several amalgamations , and turning it into a public company in 1902 .
14 The Tory party is often an amiable shambles , but the Maastricht process is turning it into a neurotic press gang .
15 ‘ Tell him Edward 's turning it into a conservation area for endangered species .
16 At present the beer is bottom-fermenting in the lager style but Bitburger are considering turning it into a top-fermenting beer .
17 Herrhausen and Mr Reuter wanted to accelerate Daimler 's hesitant steps towards diversification , turning it into a huge manufacturing conglomerate capable of leading German industry to a high-tech future and big enough to compete with the giants of American and Japanese industry .
18 With no qualifications and precious little experience , she has taken on the job of Princess of Wales and is turning it into a significant career — and at the same time has brought up two small boys .
19 In this way Ulthuan drains magic out of the known world and prevents the tide of magic overwhelming everything and turning it into a seething realm of Chaos .
20 The Schwarzlose could also be fired from a monopod , turning it into a light machine-gun .
21 Because making the material itself is a lot harder than turning it into a rudimentary bomb , it is the tight control of plutonium and uranium that has until now restricted the spread of nuclear weapons .
22 Like the Tubwell torrentor it had a disconcerting habit of flooding the road and turning it into a muddy cesspool .
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