Example sentences of "turn [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In relation to the Irish worker , he feels himself a member of the ruling nation and so turns himself into a tool of the aristocrats and capitalists of his country against Ireland , thus strengthening their domination over himself . |
| 2 | JAMES THURBER 'S short story , ‘ The Catbird Seat ’ , tells of mild-mannered Mr Martin , who deliberately turns himself into a boor for one evening . |
| 3 | The ‘ I ’ describing conversations he has n't direct access to , which he was n't present at , which he may not even have been told about and so may be inventing , is the ‘ character ’ Dostoevsky has turned himself into for the purpose of narrating the provincial chronicle . |
| 4 | This ‘ I ’ is the first-person narrator inside the frame of the provincial chronicle , the ‘ character ’ Dostoevsky has turned himself into . |
| 5 | DALIAN ATKINSON has turned himself from a confessed ‘ fat , lazy , depressive ’ into one of the country 's most lethal marksmen . |
| 6 | DALIAN ATKINSON has turned himself from a confessed ‘ fat , lazy , depressive ’ into one of the country 's most lethal marksmen . |
| 7 | The Democratic Party has turned itself into a ‘ small enterprise ’ . |
| 8 | A hospital has turned itself into a charity to prevent the Health Authority closing it down . |
| 9 | Total marketing and sales expenses increased as it turns itself into a market-driven company to $24.3m , up 45% . |
| 10 | Nothing really constructive got done there But it was where we first had a serious go at turning ourselves into a real band . |
| 11 | But his self-education had been very thorough , so that he turned himself into a good Latinist and a good Grecian also , as Pound in Confucius to Cummins acknowledged . |
| 12 | At Liverpool he turned himself into the most powerful preacher in all England . |
| 13 | Having begun as a left-arm spinner he turned himself into a fast-medium bowler who frequently took the new ball and who at times could be decidedly nippy . |
| 14 | He then turned himself into an enormous DRAGON and settled down on top of the cache . |
| 15 | The 37-year-old man turned himself into a human fireball in front of estranged wife Brenda , 35 . |
| 16 | In less than three years after his demob from the self-indulgent pastures of the peacetime RAF , Richard Burton turned himself into a great young classical actor — the heir and very apparent to Gielgud and Olivier ; and Hollywood was on the line , fishing for a new star . |
| 17 | You need one of those slave-driving old studio bosses if you ask me , not a sensitive graduate who went into movies because he liked the clouds in Antonioni and then turned himself into a nouvelle vague Deutscher all hot for Truthspiel . |
| 18 | turned himself into a handwriting expert and compared examples of the defendant 's signature … |
| 19 | A MAN turned himself into a human fireball as a protest against Western inaction in Bosnia , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 20 | CHESTER 'S ex-town crier yesterday turned himself into a human fireball outside the office of his former girlfriend . |
| 21 | CHESTER 'S ex-town crier yesterday turned himself into a human fireball outside the office of his former girlfriend . |
| 22 | FORMER town crier Mike Chittenden turned himself into a human fireball outside the office of his former girlfriend . |
| 23 | Now , Armani is Italy 's new Great Dictator but his genius is that , having handed down his basic dictate — that both women and men look their best in unstructured tailoring applied to traditional menswear fabrics — he has succeeded in turning himself into the Great Listener . |
| 24 | He bought the old Cherton Manor about a year ago and has set about turning himself into the local squire . ’ |
| 25 | Wessels overcame his country 's sporting isolation in the 80s by turning himself into cricket 's most infamous mercenary . |
| 26 | In conversations snatched in the backs of taxis between meetings , and in office anterooms , Branson spoke about the process of turning himself into a public figure if the airline were to succeed , fully aware of the consequences . |
| 27 | In the period of his presidency Louis Napoleon 's principal concern was to maximize his domestic authority in order to prepare the ground for turning himself into Napoleon III . |
| 28 | CHESTER 'S former town crier was continuing his recovery in hospital yesterday after turning himself into a human fireball last week . |
| 29 | With more emphasis on household products , does this mean that Marks and Spencer is turning itself into a supermarket ? |
| 30 | Sweeping into the market with some force has been Abbey National , the building society that turned itself into a bank in 1989 . |