Example sentences of "[conj] turned the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bobbin-making throve on the rise of the cotton industry in Lancashire , and it was the invention of John Braithwaite of a bobbin-making machine that turned the craft into a factory industry . |
| 2 | For I think it is not out of any maiden meekness in you , ’ he said , with a sudden blazing smile that turned the stricture into a compliment . |
| 3 | It was so loud and so deep it was n't really sound at all , just something that turned the air hard and then hit you with it . |
| 4 | But it was her vocal anti-meat stance that turned the country establishment 's down-home snub into redneck outrage . |
| 5 | The bodies were made of ‘ German silver ’ , essentially bell-brass , but with a high nickel content that turned the metal white and hardened it ready for engraving . |
| 6 | Younis arrived in Larnaca on the 10th and joined Hamadan in another two-day , nonstop pub crawl that turned the knife in Hurley 's wound and brought them , on schedule , to the Sheraton resort hotel in Limassol on the night of the 12th . |
| 7 | He and May put on 187 — a stand that turned the match and indeed the whole rubber . |
| 8 | She sat in her car and turned the heater on while she wrote her comments on a piece of paper . |
| 9 | I went and turned the bottom as well got i |
| 10 | He got into the driver 's seat of our car and turned the vehicle round in order to follow the Sierra . ’ |
| 11 | Ron stepped aside , opened the door and turned the ignition . |
| 12 | She shut her eyes and turned the ignition key , pressing it slightly to the left . |
| 13 | Sharpe emerged from the wood and turned the mare north-west . |
| 14 | He reached out and turned the lamp so that it shone onto her face , seating himself on the edge of the desk so that he could study her . |
| 15 | He reached out and turned the bottle , looking at the label . |
| 16 | She plastered a polite smile on her face and turned the door-handle . |
| 17 | His queen , Persephone , became jealous and turned the nymph into the plant mint . |
| 18 | Rae scratched her initials due south-west and turned the easel to face the door . |
| 19 | She jerked her head at the boy and he went over and turned the knob . |
| 20 | He closed his eyes , uttered a silent prayer and turned the knob . |
| 21 | Taking her courage in both hands , she left her bag where it was and turned the knob , pushing open the door into the kitchen which smelled so warm and inviting and blessedly familiar that a lump rose in her throat . |
| 22 | I even knew that if we talked about her past and all her life I might begin to like her , but I was thinking of a different countryside and different cattle and worrying about the oxen who ploughed the fields and turned the water wheels . |
| 23 | ‘ Stead of that , she went round the corner of the stable , and she hit the corner of the barn and turned the tumbril right over , that did ! |
| 24 | She reached out and turned the clock towards her , blinking at the small ornate face , attempting to focus on the figures , trying to work out if it was twenty past twelve or twenty past one , finally deciding it was the earlier hour . |
| 25 | He came to an arrangement with two more actors , gave the camera crews some private pocket money and turned the film over to his assistants . |
| 26 | Once , ’ he continued , ‘ everything beneath the great Tor was covered in marsh , meres and pools , but the monks have drained these dry and turned the land into one of God 's great wonders . ’ |
| 27 | Patience , she counselled herself , and turned the chicken in the nick of time . |
| 28 | A decisive change of allegiance , however , took place in 1212 , when Renaud Dammartin became John 's ally and turned the king against Eustace , who consequently entered the service of King Philip . |
| 29 | It was already nightfall when Whitlock crossed the Heuss Bridge over the Rhine and turned the Golf Corbio into Rampenstrasse , his eyes screwed up behind his tinted glasses as he tried to distinguish the numbers , many of them faded and indistinct , on the rows of warehouses lining the river bank . |
| 30 | The Second Vice-President took over defence of the Bill in the House and turned the discussion away from considerations of press freedom to a critique of newspapers like the Standard , which were owned by capitalists . |