Example sentences of "turned [pers pn] into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As summer drew on , the ocean of green became darker and darker until the first fires of autumn caught the leaves and turned them into a patchwork of burnished copper and gold leaving the black of the yews standing out once more . |
| 2 | Quinn 's line of thought can be traced back to earlier works such as those of Lindblom ( 1959 ) and Wrapp ( 1967 ) , but he took these general ideas and turned them into a framework for observing organization behaviour and then into practical recommendations for the chief executive who is responsible for strategic change . |
| 3 | Very light , very hurried steps , but the bare , glossy wood turned them into a muffled drum-roll . |
| 4 | Our questions ranged far and wide and his courtesy and patience turned them into an intriguing trail of discovery which was endlessly fascinating and richly rewarding , for he is also a natural raconteur . |
| 5 | IT ALWAYS used to be Chrismuzak — the sound of synthesised carols in stores and malls — that turned me into a Scrooge . |
| 6 | ‘ Ethel turned me into a frog and that 's where I 've been for the last day , and it was her fault . |
| 7 | Being forcibly confined with other blind girls in a school which thought it was a public school soon turned me into a staunchly outspoken socialist . |
| 8 | My natural speed turned me into a wing three-quarter at rugby for the colts , though I can always recall matches in the centre and at fly-half . |
| 9 | Clifford turned me into a monster |
| 10 | Turned me into a woman overnight . |
| 11 | ‘ One good thing to come out of it was that it inspired me to play guitar and turned me into the person I am . ’ |
| 12 | This turned him into a hero of the silent majority . |
| 13 | Valerie looked cautiously round , then , lowering her voice , said : ‘ Weeks ago our little kitten ran into the wood , and she caught him and turned him into a witch 's cat . ’ |
| 14 | But whisky turned him into a savage bully . |
| 15 | As a result her handsome husband shrank into a shrivelled old man until he was so deformed the gods took pity on him and turned him into a cicada — one of the first creatures to excitedly greet the dawn on a warm summer 's day . |
| 16 | Harry was enjoying himself : he had been drinking , and was in that pleasant state of semi-inebriation that softened his tongue and turned him into a quite amiable human being . |
| 17 | One , apprenticed to a shoe maker , recalled not a cruel master but a mistress who turned him into a household drudge . |
| 18 | The trials of his childhood and teenage years turned him into the perfect Prince , but they did not alter his fundamental nature . |
| 19 | The gods turned him into the flower that bears his name . |
| 20 | Dostoevsky underwent a spiritual transformation in Siberia which turned him into the greatest of nineteenth-century writers , but Petrashevskii died there and was buried in unconsecrated ground in 1866 . |
| 21 | and when Siegfried swears to marry and save Odette after she has told him how the wicked Von Rothbart turned her into a Swan ( Swan Lake , Act 11 ) . |
| 22 | Originally the Queen of Libya , she was seduced by JUPITER ; jealous JUNO murdered her children and cast a spell which turned her into a beast with the head of a woman , the body of a snake , strange cloven hooves and a flowing lion 's tail . |
| 23 | With her died the chance for Sinead to exorcise the demons that had scarred her childhood and turned her into a rebel whose talent to shock would ultimately overshadow her singing ability . |
| 24 | Amy 's experiences turned her into a radical activist as a teenager . |
| 25 | Notebooks in hand , they listened beside her hospital bed as she told of how her attacker stripped her , tied her hands behind her back , and turned her into a human rag doll by dumping her in a city rubbish skip . |
| 26 | Holding Mariana close to the ground , he turned her into the wind — fifteen minutes to crawl fifty yards … |
| 27 | Donald McCulloch grinned with pleasure and then turned it into a look of complicity for the younger men . |
| 28 | He never lost sight of the religious nature of his subject , and never turned it into a boring desert . |
| 29 | They might have had one if Bill could have explained his idea because that 's exactly what Harry Nilsson later did with the song , turned it into a big ballad and scored a number one hit with it . |
| 30 | Deracinated urban youths have built upon this uncompromisingly physical attitude to games and turned it into a different , more aggressive , and organized subculture . |