Example sentences of "[verb] turn [prep] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has turned into a champion of the underdog , gone out on a limb to support unglamorous causes like AIDS victims , drug abusers and the mentally handicapped . |
| 2 | Bank Assistants were told there was room at the top , but this mirage has turned into a desert of empty dry promises , sun bleached skeletons of the fallen victims and descending spirals of the vultures , vigilant for the weak . |
| 3 | Germany , once the greatest supporter of a united Europe , has turned into a nation of bewildered sceptics intent on forcing Bonn to claw back some lost sovereignty . |
| 4 | You 're going to spend the next few months hanging over them with your heart thumping in case they 've stopped breathing and the next few years after that stopping them committing suicide because a perfectly ordinary house has turned into a minefield of electricity and stairs and windows and boiling kettles . |
| 5 | But for today I now want to turn to a number of erm definitions and classifications linked to foreign policy and this is where I want you to start working a bit harder . |
| 6 | Many of the cases appear to turn upon a consideration of whether the payment was voluntary or involuntary . |
| 7 | ‘ I just hope neither of you ever has to turn to a life of crime . |
| 8 | Some of the early cases seem to turn upon a consideration of whether or not a payment which it is sought to recover was made voluntarily or not . |
| 9 | Could I ever again trust the being I had turned into a sort of god ? |
| 10 | It was as if he had turned into a block of ice . |
| 11 | It was as though someone had turned on a current of electricity , and with every second that passed the image became brighter and stronger . |
| 12 | It took place immediately after Air France had turned in a loss of 685 million francs . |
| 13 | I mean it 's turned into a bit of a joke now really |
| 14 | But even back then in that golden age for the company , there were early forerunners of the devastating failures that have turned into a way of dismal life from the dawn of the 1980s . |
| 15 | We have now turned almost full circle , but instead of employing someone to bait the swim , we have turned to a choice of mechanical devices which do a similar job . |