Example sentences of "turn [pers pn] into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Managers had hoped that closer co-operation with the unions would make the committees a place for consultation , not turn them into a battleground . |
| 2 | We need the winds everywhere and we rely on people in Florida state to take these very sparse observations and turn them into a map which covers the whole surface of the tropical Pacific . |
| 3 | If they are broken up , turn them into a fish paste . |
| 4 | erm What you ca n't do is take somebody who really the very idea of computers , and turn them into a successful computer operator , because they will make mistakes , and having made mistakes they will be terrified and wo n't want to do it again . |
| 5 | Back at the hacienda she abandoned the horses and fled to her room , leaving the others to see to them and turn them into the enclosures . |
| 6 | What , you , you , you turn them into the paddock ? |
| 7 | Invade my space , compact my disc , shrink my knob and turn me into a blue hedgity-hog . |
| 8 | Turn me into a drone . |
| 9 | Be it nuking the world , winning at Brand 's Hatch , or wrestling with pixies , will all this fantasy turn you into a blob-shaped brain-dead computer-zombie ? |
| 10 | Turn you into a human being . |
| 11 | Turn you int turn you into a human being . |
| 12 | We 'll get you sorted out , turn you into a human being again . |
| 13 | Turn you into a human being . |
| 14 | Presently , he said , ‘ If it 's going to help , by all means interview Edna , but I do n't quite see how raking up the past , digging into something which might be better left alone , is going to get Celia over this illness , turn her into a normal woman again . ’ |
| 15 | Turn her into a human being . |
| 16 | We talk to him in his language and we have tried to lift as much of the experience from his mind as we can so that it does n't fester , get covered over , then burst out in 10 years time and turn him into a disturbed child . |
| 17 | ‘ Turn him into a bunny rabbit . ’ |
| 18 | He was determined to resurrect the Liberalism of Cambridge , and turn it into a force among junior members of the university . |
| 19 | Or you can say : I 've researched it , I know the idea is right , I 'm going to go in big and I 'm going to have to sustain four or five years of losses before I turn it into a profit . |
| 20 | Turn it into a utopian commune where women , gazing through mullioned windows at the lake , weave medieval tapestries . ’ |
| 21 | The Shorthorn/Highland first cross has always been popular but it took the concerted efforts of the three Cadzow brothers on an island off the west coast of Scotland to consolidate the virtues of the cross and turn it into a genuine breed , the Luing , named after the island of its origin . |
| 22 | Johnny Kirk , whose family had been connected with the ‘ mayor-making ’ over the years , said they did not want to make a big production of it or turn it into a tourist attraction ; they wanted to keep it as it was , ‘ a local event for local people ’ . |
| 23 | Plans to improve Elstead Village Hall and turn it into a community centre were outlined to a gathering of about 50 people at the annual general meeting in the hall . |
| 24 | To me that 's really annoying because all you do is destroy your song and you turn it into a guitarist 's track and I 've never really been interested in that . |
| 25 | Because of the sole directorship , the Revenue is trying to ride roughshod through the facts of the case and turn it into a mini investigation . |
| 26 | Mary can take any serviceman 's record of service and turn it into a stunning gouache painting of unit badges , decorations and awards , supported by a beautiful write-up in calligraphy . |
| 27 | Thankfully there 's always Dave Hemingway 's grin , Brian Corrigan 's Grogan-esque voice and Heaton 's foppish dancing to cheer us up and turn it into a gorgeous and lurvely night . |
| 28 | About 150 of those North European settlers chose to barricade themselves inside the Alamo Mission , turn it into a fortress , and to defy Santa Anna 's army of around 5,000 . |
| 29 | ‘ The federalists want to neuter the entire continent and turn it into a giant blancmange , ’ says Robertson . |
| 30 | After his unsuccessful campaign in 1988 to save Worthing 's charming Victorian lifeboat house and turn it into a lifeboat museum , Rob Blann wrote a book about the deed of 19th century local lifeboatmen , entitled ‘ A Town 's Pride ’ . |