Example sentences of "[pron] turn [prep] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there are many contributing factors as to why er somebody turns to a life of crime , er , which is another argument , which I 'm not gon na get involved with . |
| 2 | She turned in a swirl of nylon jersey , and flung wide the door to the study , where the subsiding glow of the fire still burned . |
| 3 | JOHN Calton was a highly trained paratrooper who turned to a life of crime when he left the Army . |
| 4 | Unpretentious yet beautiful orange brick and pantiled watermills , trout farms and farmhouses rest peacefully in isolated spots and cosy little hamlets appear unexpectedly as one turns of a bend of a woldland way . |
| 5 | First , however , we turn to a view of economic change which pre-dates Bell 's analysis and which underpins most accounts of the break from an industrial to a post-industrial economy . |
| 6 | Er , colleagues , before we turn to a period of , er , rule amendments and general motions , could I just advise congress that a pair of spectacles have been handed in er , Vision Express , look like , well they could be ladies or gents , multi-sexual these days , colleagues . |
| 7 | Right colleagues , could we turn to a period of rule amendments and er general motions now . |
| 8 | He kept the glasses trained , and as he watched they turned into a herd of about seven buffalo filing slowly in their direction . |
| 9 | But sooner or later it turns into a crisis of resources — practical , personal and political . |
| 10 | Although it grows from mud , it turns into a thing of great beauty and smells very sweet . |
| 11 | Later , he turned to a variety of topics within logic and philosophy : modal and many-valued logic ; the logic of entailment and of questions ; the paradoxes ; the Polish school of reism ; action theory ; ontology ; and intentionality . |