Example sentences of "turning [pers pn] into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any moment now , Judi would be turning them into a Jury , appealing for their verdict on the Nielsen family . |
| 2 | Certain that it was the only true begetter of G&S , indifferent to new theatrical styles , D'Oyly Carte presented the same productions year after year , turning them into a rather dreary ritual . |
| 3 | They put their muck , untreated into rivers , turning them into a dirty brown evil smelling soup . |
| 4 | Yet , apart from these and a couple of stagings of The Tempest , choreographers have tended to present Shakespeare only in one act form , at best condensing the great poetic dramas into intense and intimate character studies at worst , turning them into a slide show of cliched vignettes . |
| 5 | In the ‘ we-reap-as-we-sow ’ category this week there are reports by Computer Reseller News that WordPerfect is now thinking about dusting off its long-standing complaints against Microsoft Corp and turning them into an anti-trust action if the US Federal Trade Commission does n't hop to and litigate . |
| 6 | Now if you know that somebody is a drug addict and they 've just had an injection you keep away from them , erm if they 're having a bad trip , whatever they call it , because you do n't , they become very violent , they can do a lot of damage , now the only time you will step in and help is when they go unconscious , but at the same time remember protect yourself , we 're talking about needles here and probably shared needles , you must be terribly careful that you do not get pricked by a needle , especially if , they have a habit of sticking needles under lapels , so always be aware of this , if a person is a drug addict , in fact if you can find some easier way of turning them into the recovery position , do so , erm , you can then obviously either call the ambulance . |
| 7 | If a week of being looked after had gone such a fair way to turning me into a drivelling weakling , it was just as well I had n't let Dottie tempt me to any more of it . |
| 8 | She 's turning me into a wild animal . |
| 9 | Do n't miss out the l or you 'll start turning me into a Parisian grocer . |
| 10 | Now you 'd better start turning me into a space-station commander . ’ |
| 11 | She had a long face and such a naked forehead , Daisy found herself turning her into a polo pony . |
| 12 | SIX people accused of kidnapping a teenage girl and turning her into a human torch appeared in court yesterday . |
| 13 | In 1952 she wed film director Roger Vadim , the man responsible for turning her into a screen star , but that soon turned sour . |
| 14 | Sondra Locke never would have made a Forces ' pin-up but that did n't deter Clint Eastwood from turning her into a star with lotsa spunk — and they were off-screen lovers — although he could have had his pick of ‘ beautiful broads ’ . |
| 15 | Now he was turning her into a stammering schoolgirl ! |
| 16 | Efforts at turning him into a sort of global brand — a line of shoes for L.A. Gear , toys called ‘ Michael Jackson 's Pets ’ — have failed miserably . |
| 17 | The conjurer would probably put a spell on him , turning him into a toad . |
| 18 | Behind him , lightning flared , turning him into a stark silhouette against the windows ; flooding the reception with white light . |
| 19 | David Icke insists he made no such claim , and blames the media for turning him into a laughing-stock . |
| 20 | Estella and Miss Havisham reduce the reader 's sympathy towards Pip by turning him into a snob at the beginning and Magwitch helps to redeem Pip at the end by bringing out his loyalty . |
| 21 | Not only did she need Vitor 's goodwill now , but she could need it some time in the future ; so turning him into an outright no-holds-barred enemy was shortsighted … and potentially dangerous . |
| 22 | At present the beer is bottom-fermenting in the lager style but Bitburger are considering turning it into a top-fermenting beer . |
| 23 | With no qualifications and precious little experience , she has taken on the job of Princess of Wales and is turning it into a significant career — and at the same time has brought up two small boys . |
| 24 | UNEP , it is worth recalling , was born out of the 1972 Stockholm conference ; the 1992 anniversary conference will be the time to consider turning it into a full-blown UN agency with more funds at its disposal . |
| 25 | Herrhausen and Mr Reuter wanted to accelerate Daimler 's hesitant steps towards diversification , turning it into a huge manufacturing conglomerate capable of leading German industry to a high-tech future and big enough to compete with the giants of American and Japanese industry . |
| 26 | When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain , turning it into a vehicle for the meme 's propagation in just the way that a virus may parasitize the genetic mechanism of a host cell . |
| 27 | For those who ‘ liked a job to do ’ there was the distribution of food and clothing and fuel , and there were some who did it honestly and others who were suspected of turning it into a ‘ racket ’ . |
| 28 | People travel outside the village to work , so turning it into a dormitory village . |
| 29 | They chose for their project the task of landscaping an area of waste land , turning it into a very pleasant garden with flowers , trees and shrubs for the benefit of the village . |
| 30 | We had a really tight budget and we feared the cost of turning it into a home was way beyond our means . |