Example sentences of "to turn [pers pn] into [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The first such is Microsoft Workgroup Templates : these are bundles of technologies , such as macros and dynamic link libraries which can be bolted onto existing applications to turn them into a specific workgroup ‘ solution ’ .
2 I refused to have a mastectomy and I see now in terms of theory , that I was stagemanaged at various points on the production line , into trying to turn me into a well-behaved patient by traumatising me by saying ‘ If you do n't do what we tell you … ’ or ‘ You 're being very naughty ’ or ‘ You 're being hysterical ’ , or ‘ We have n't got time to deal with all these questions , we 'd never get round ’ , and so on .
3 There you are , and that 'll help to turn you into a human being .
4 Efforts to turn him into the new Olivier met a similar fate .
5 But this was the one Miss Minogue and her handlers gambled upon to turn her into a major star .
6 However , as the torchlight danced ahead she gradually lost the worst of the fears that had at first threatened to turn her into a quivering jelly .
7 For a bit , she tried to turn Yeats into a warrior , and he tried to turn her into a high priestess of the Celtic mysteries — and thus , of course , into a ‘ moderate ’ .
8 Suddenly , cheekily she spun round in front of him , mocking his attempts to turn her into an Anglo-Irish lady .
9 Some , responding to the phallocentrism which Lacanianism retains from traditional psychoanalysis , try to turn it into a gynocentric psychoanalysis .
10 She wanted to turn it into a little sitting-room for herself and she wanted to keep its Chinese theme .
11 ‘ And with his money tied up in the land he lacked the extra cash necessary to turn it into a paying proposition . ’
12 Her welding torch has been applied to an old mini to turn it into a Pink hippopotamus .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 She winced at the faint trace of disgust in his voice , but managed to turn it into a careless shrug .
16 Huge amounts of government money should be invested to turn it into the national effort .
17 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 .
18 This was a basic Ford shooting-brake which had had the windows and roof removed to turn it into an open truck .
19 The decision to turn it into an independent corporation has been welcomed , although the government 's power to veto members less so .
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