Example sentences of "turned a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ross Group turned a half-year profit of £150,000 into a loss of £220,000 , underlining the task which faces the new management . |
| 2 | Instantly , Mr Bumble sat down by the fire and gave the widow such a warm smile that her face turned a delicate pink . |
| 3 | James 's pudgy face turned a dull red . |
| 4 | His sallow face turned a dull pink and his voice , never particularly strong or resonant , became a querulous squeak . |
| 5 | The whole hand turned a deep shade of scarlet , the flesh itself heating up . |
| 6 | One evening he turned a small chair over on its side and said ‘ While I 'm gone , Geraldine , dear , could you work on turning this chair into a forest ? ’ |
| 7 | Dr Kumar turned a 2,000 deficit into a near 2,000 majority . |
| 8 | He turned a dry look on me . |
| 9 | She turned a weary face to him . |
| 10 | It appeared quite suddenly as they turned a sharp bend , an imposing stone edifice with ivy-clad walls , set among tall poplars , well back from the road . |
| 11 | This was the normal relaxation of a king 's leisure : Henry I of Germany was so keen a huntsman that he ‘ would take forty or more wild beasts in a day ’ ; the Norman kings turned a substantial proportion of their kingdom into game preserves ; hunting was the natural sport of a militant aristocracy , venting on animals the energy and spleen left over from fighting their own kind . |
| 12 | She turned a stricken glance on Peter . |
| 13 | As Tabitha was trying to get past a couple of coked-up Thrants in expensive shakos and boiled leather , one of the Palernians turned a clumsy somersault , and one of the others pushed her into the canal . |
| 14 | Then the index fell by almost 20 points below Monday 's close after Wall Street turned a tentative opening into a 25 point slump . |
| 15 | Ann turned a laughing face to me . |
| 16 | Strangely , the sun also shone , though it turned a dusty red , blotted out by the dark wings of vultures . |
| 17 | So the Foreign Office turned a bland eye — nobody was exactly complaining out loud — and we took on the whole Sims organisation as a going concern . |
| 18 | Dinah turned a radiant smile on him . |
| 19 | Back in the study , Flora turned a beseeching face upon Anna . |
| 20 | Luke turned a venomous face to him . |
| 21 | At the end , between lengthy visits to Walter Reed Hospital in Washington and crippled with arthritis as a result of a youthful bicycle accident , he turned a deaf ear to opposition calls to resign after losing his majority . |
| 22 | She would n't be keeping the Law if she turned a deaf ear to the call or ran away from it . |
| 23 | The owners turned a deaf ear to such an expensive demand . |
| 24 | He refused to promise anything , just as he turned a deaf ear to their prayers for his ‘ resignation ’ . |
| 25 | Next day , when the mob was destroying the Catholic chapel in Moorfields , he apparently turned a deaf ear to requests for orders from the soldiers and the fire officers in attendance ; and when the rioters ' work was done he uttered the mildest of rebukes : ‘ That 's pretty well , gentlemen , for one day ; I hope you will now go to your own homes . ’ |
| 26 | Certainly II Cnut 54.1 , which forbids the keeping of a woman in addition to a wife , sits ill with the king 's own relationship with Ælfgifu of Northampton , and suggests that he occasionally turned a deaf ear to Wulfstan 's entreaties ; but this does not necessarily mean that he lacked interest in the archbishop 's work . |
| 27 | And the Westminster North constituency of Stormont Law and Order Minister Sir John Wheeler is among those which turned a deaf ear to the fund-raising targets set by party chiefs . |
| 28 | ‘ What Are the Royals Up To Now ? ’ changed abruptly to ‘ Will Soccer Violence Spread to Gaelic Football ? ’ as he turned a mental page . |
| 29 | When 20,000 travellers invaded Castlemorton Common last May , it turned a picturesque part of Worcestershire into a shanty town . |
| 30 | He bewildered his audience for a moment , and then moved them , when he suddenly turned a political invective about government 's neglect of the environment into a lament that one of the sad losses was going to be the poetry of the countryside , the pastorals of a Vergil or a Theocritus . |