Example sentences of "[noun] turned [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CHEEKY Coronation Street star Ken Morley turned perfect angel yesterday to launch the Post Office 's set of Christmas stamps . |
| 2 | Heads turned that night when Senator Jared Tunstall and his wife entered the ballroom at Devonshire House . |
| 3 | Defender turned star striker Paul Warhurst passed a fitness test after recovering from the groin injury that forced him to pull out of the England squad . |
| 4 | Merrill 's heart plumetted as the wheel turned full circle again . |
| 5 | The hectic action started in November with Clive Rice 's public-relations visit to India — Wessels 's successes on the tour earned him the man-of-the-series award — and ended six months later in frustration as the West Indians turned imminent defeat into a remarkable victory in one session on the final day of an historic Test , denying two excellent half-centuries by Wessels and Andrew Hudson 's debut century , the first for South Africa . |
| 6 | It has been stoked primarily by Mr Alexander Rutskoy , the Russian vice-president , who has warned that it may be time to review Khrushchev 's gift of Crimea to Ukraine in 1954 , and by President Kravchuk , a Communist Party boss turned Ukrainian nationalist . |
| 7 | Our chartered Sunsail 350 , La Pietra , rode contentedly with the other anchored boats in the shimmering heat of the afternoon , and it was not until the sun turned bright orange and began to drop rapidly seawards that anyone in the boat felt like stirring . |
| 8 | And John Millar will reveal all — well , a bit — about bad boy turned good guy Christian Slater and his latest movie True Romance . |
| 9 | Rachel 's skin turned dusky gold . |
| 10 | In his first season at Arsenal he was cast in the role of footballer turned male model . |
| 11 | Why did he follow J R Ewing , the epitome of 1980s TV , with a western about a gunfighter turned foster father ? |
| 12 | A gargled sound came from the doorway and every eye turned that way . |
| 13 | Perhaps it was the shock , but the band turned heavy metal not long after . |
| 14 | Perhaps it was the shock , but the band turned heavy metal not long after . |
| 15 | John is an ex-international steeplechaser turned entrepreneurial agent , and he and Kim McDonald both do a fine job , mostly for distance runners , in finding all-important overseas competition for British athletes . |
| 16 | Peter Banning ( Robin Williams ) is an American attorney turned corporate pirate , who wo n't find time for his children ( Charlie Korsmo and Amber Scott ) and sees no irony in accusing them of childishness . |
| 17 | His head turned this way and that . |
| 18 | Its bronze-gold wings were tightly wrapped around its body but the long equine head turned this way and that at the end of a remarkably prehensile neck . |
| 19 | And loyalists claim a second inmate was blinded for 48 hours after riot squad prison officers turned high-powered hose on his face . |
| 20 | He was replaced by a former close colleague turned bitter critic , Donald Kalpokas . |
| 21 | The Central Statistical Office reported that its longer leading index of economic activity continued to suggest hat the economy turned last summer while its shorter index points to recovery at the end of last year . |
| 22 | Mind you , it is rather surprising that McDonald , a top session man turned star performer , has not established himself as a big noise in Europe . |
| 23 | Formerly a European commissioner , and now the outgoing chairman of Britain 's Civil Aviation Authority , Sir Christopher Tugendhat is to become chairman of Abbey National , a building society turned retail bank . |
| 24 | The black clouds had parted to show between them shreds of summer sky turned sickly green . |
| 25 | Though the odd player such as Dewi Morris , the England scrum- half , still has a hand-off , it has become rare enough to make the criticism of Wales 's Nigel Walker , the Olympic hurdler turned international rugby wing , sound almost like a phrase from another age . |
| 26 | It is said to be the tree on which Judas Iscariot hanged himself , after which its pink blossom turned dark red in shame . |
| 27 | The latter closes the album with an everyday tale of a desperate kid turned gun-toting cokefreak ; Mica 's ‘ In The Ghetto ’ . |
| 28 | The latter closes the album with an everyday tale of a desperate kid turned gun-toting cokefreak ; Mica 's ‘ In The Ghetto ’ . |
| 29 | About this time Berthelet turned active supervision of his printing-house over to his nephew , Thomas Powell , probably by 1549 when he was granted a coat of arms . |
| 30 | BRIAN MARWOOD , England winger turned Premier League reject , last night heaped gratitude on the man who has booted him out of Sheffield United . |