Example sentences of "to turn it [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some , responding to the phallocentrism which Lacanianism retains from traditional psychoanalysis , try to turn it into a gynocentric psychoanalysis . |
| 2 | She wanted to turn it into a little sitting-room for herself and she wanted to keep its Chinese theme . |
| 3 | ‘ And with his money tied up in the land he lacked the extra cash necessary to turn it into a paying proposition . ’ |
| 4 | Her welding torch has been applied to an old mini to turn it into a Pink hippopotamus . |
| 5 | The longer they had in order to establish this bit of coast as an aristocratic retreat , the easier it would be to turn it into a fashionable resort when time and money offered . |
| 6 | The brewers to whom it belonged , having ideas , like all brewers in the 1960s , of reviving the supposed jollity of the eighteenth century , had applied for permission to turn it into a fashionable beer garden . |
| 7 | She winced at the faint trace of disgust in his voice , but managed to turn it into a careless shrug . |
| 8 | There were plans to turn it into an opencast mine , but now the Forestry Commission , which administers the Forest from its headquarters in Coleford , has withdrawn its permisssion for British Coal to mine there , deciding instead to start re-planting trees . |
| 9 | This was a basic Ford shooting-brake which had had the windows and roof removed to turn it into an open truck . |
| 10 | The decision to turn it into an independent corporation has been welcomed , although the government 's power to veto members less so . |