Example sentences of "to turn [pers pn] into a [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 | But this was the one Miss Minogue and her handlers gambled upon to turn her into a major star . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | Some , responding to the phallocentrism which Lacanianism retains from traditional psychoanalysis , try to turn it into a gynocentric psychoanalysis . |
| 8 | She wanted to turn it into a little sitting-room for herself and she wanted to keep its Chinese theme . |
| 9 | ‘ And with his money tied up in the land he lacked the extra cash necessary to turn it into a paying proposition . ’ |
| 10 | Her welding torch has been applied to an old mini to turn it into a Pink hippopotamus . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She winced at the faint trace of disgust in his voice , but managed to turn it into a careless shrug . |