Example sentences of "turned to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly the ground fell away before them and they came out on an open plateau with a floor of chequered marble , white on black , and a wide stone staircase with balustrades running down to the dried bed of an ornamental lake , which the mist turned to a bowl of milk . |
| 2 | JOHN Calton was a highly trained paratrooper who turned to a life of crime when he left the Army . |
| 3 | His mouth met hers and her shocked little gasp turned to a moan of hunger as she closed her eyes and kissed him at last , at last , and the brandy glass fell from her hands , shattering at their feet as her arms went around his neck , her mouth opening hungrily beneath his , her hands in his black hair , her body pressing against his as they clung together with intolerable necessity , unaware of the fragments of glass they trampled as Damian pressed her tighter , tighter until there was not an inch between their bodies . |
| 4 | Later , he turned to a variety of topics within logic and philosophy : modal and many-valued logic ; the logic of entailment and of questions ; the paradoxes ; the Polish school of reism ; action theory ; ontology ; and intentionality . |
| 5 | He opened the throttle as he turned left into Station Road The burble of the exhaust turned to a bellow as he raced down the long gentle slope towards Newtown . |
| 6 | But the Executioner 's attack scream turned to a shriek of agony , as Angel One seized his chance and launched his own surprise counter . |
| 7 | After a while the conversation turned to a friend 's plans to marry an American girl . |
| 8 | He turned to a door at the end of the room . |
| 9 | One man a few yards ahead of Dexter turned to a colleague and muttered , ‘ Bonking in the viewing room , eh ? ’ with a smutty chuckle . |
| 10 | The men chortled lewdly , as Estelle conjured up a trickle of pee that turned to a stream , and splashed into the tumbler like a miniature Niagara . |
| 11 | Despite their rousing calls for a cinema that was ‘ vital , illuminating , ’ and their polemic against a national cinema divorced from contemporary realities , they turned to a series of novels set in the English provinces for material out or which to make their first movies . |
| 12 | She turned to a glass case that held a number of boxes , and after a moment she said , ‘ No , I 'm afraid not . |
| 13 | Haig , though still hugely optimistic , reported later in a dispatch : ‘ The low-lying clayey soil , torn by shells and sodden by rain , turned to a succession of vast muddy pools . |
| 14 | Ceauşescu 's imagination turned to a project which could not be reversed by his successors , perhaps even by time itself . |
| 15 | That decision exposed the party 's bankruptcy : with no leader of stature to replace Mr Gandhi , they turned to a woman whose only political asset was her name , which , the party hoped , would bring in the sympathy vote that swung Rajiv into power after his mother 's death in 1984 . |