Example sentences of "turn it [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wind had turned it into an octopus and the old lady muttered , ‘ Oh dear , oh lord , oh good heavens , what a nuisance . ’ |
| 2 | They 've turned it from a Council that was determined to tackle the social deprivation in this city , was determined to tackle the disadvantaged , such as racial disadvantaged , by supporting the C T C , which gives a unique opportunity to Asian children in this city for education . |
| 3 | The Teifi Valley Sports and Leisure Centre Management Committee is a group which renovated a disused woollen mill and turned it into a sports and leisure centre . |
| 4 | It 's since been a cafe , a grill and a bric-a-brac shop , with plans now to turn it into a museum and heritage centre ; something Browne Willis would doubtless have approved of . |
| 5 | When I asked Dad he mumbled something about entertaining so maybe he was planning to turn it into a theatre or something . |
| 6 | He turns it into a hotel and falls in love with a local French lass . |
| 7 | One might wonder why metaphor so often demands that its work be described in terms of colonization and occupation , and what it is about an initial transportation of meaning that turns it into a conquest or a coercive restructuring . |