Example sentences of "[noun] turned [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maria McFadden turned sparkling eyes on the fair man who called himself Florian Jones . |
| 2 | CHEEKY Coronation Street star Ken Morley turned perfect angel yesterday to launch the Post Office 's set of Christmas stamps . |
| 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 | Shannon turned incredulous eyes on the other woman . |
| 7 | Shelley 's senses turned violent somersaults , and she was n't responsible for her words as they tumbled out . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And John Millar will reveal all — well , a bit — about bad boy turned good guy Christian Slater and his latest movie True Romance . |
| 11 | Rachel 's skin turned dusky gold . |
| 12 | In his first season at Arsenal he was cast in the role of footballer turned male model . |
| 13 | A pre-emptive strike by a minority of non-Jewish Germans turned German Jews into foreigners in their own homeland . |
| 14 | Why did he follow J R Ewing , the epitome of 1980s TV , with a western about a gunfighter turned foster father ? |
| 15 | Maria turned clear eyes , golden-brown tonight , on Luke and said what needed to be said , eschewing preamble , cleverness and a host of other possible costumes in which she might have dressed it up . |
| 16 | Perhaps it was the shock , but the band turned heavy metal not long after . |
| 17 | Perhaps it was the shock , but the band turned heavy metal not long after . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Euturpia Kennedy turned untenanted eyes in a face laid waste ; even her lips , emptied of succulence , were hardly there but for the outlined ridge . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And loyalists claim a second inmate was blinded for 48 hours after riot squad prison officers turned high-powered hose on his face . |
| 22 | He was replaced by a former close colleague turned bitter critic , Donald Kalpokas . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Harrison v Hill [ 1932 ] SC ( J ) 13 where a road maintained by a farmer , leading from the public road to his farmhouse , was held to be a road , the farmer turned away people who were using it from time to time but it was also used by people having no business at the farm ; |
| 26 | The black clouds had parted to show between them shreds of summer sky turned sickly green . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It is said to be the tree on which Judas Iscariot hanged himself , after which its pink blossom turned dark red in shame . |
| 29 | The latter closes the album with an everyday tale of a desperate kid turned gun-toting cokefreak ; Mica 's ‘ In The Ghetto ’ . |
| 30 | The latter closes the album with an everyday tale of a desperate kid turned gun-toting cokefreak ; Mica 's ‘ In The Ghetto ’ . |