Example sentences of "turn [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has , for example , turned me into a complete Danny Baker fan . |
| 2 | ‘ I think , ’ she said , deliberately lowering the tone of her voice , which was bordering on the hysterical , ‘ that something happened to you in the past , you loved someone else , and it 's turned you into a bitter man . |
| 3 | It 's turned you into a human being yet ? |
| 4 | Luckily , though , his adventures had already turned him into a local hero , and his bosses were only too happy to allow him to devote as much time as he wanted to his art . |
| 5 | The huge international interest in Brightness which followed his escape to freedom in Turkish waters , has turned him into a valuable commodity . |
| 6 | Yes , it 's not , they 've turned it into a total university trained job erm , people have n't given award . |
| 7 | would have turned it into a distinct party separate from the Parliamentary Labour Party of which it formed nearly a halt Candidates were asked to avoid " commitments with other organisations of such a nature as to militate against their effectiveness as ILP Members of Parliament " . |
| 8 | In Manchester the handover has allowed it to offload heavy costs such as bridge maintenance , while in Sheffield the running of the tram system into British Midland 's station has turned it into a major transport terminus , which includes buses . |
| 9 | The château was empty , almost derelict , and they have turned it into a small hotel and restaurant . |
| 10 | If Knightshayes had been a really fine Victorian garden , you 'd have had to keep it as it was , but we 've turned it into a twentieth-century garden and that 's what the Trust has taken . |
| 11 | By the 1950s , The Ridges was the criminal ghetto of Newcastle , and by the 1970s a costly council manicure job had turned it into a free-fire zone . |
| 12 | Six years later Murphy had turned it into the biggest agency in Scotland , overtaking Barkers , traditionally the market leader , and bought it out ( the implicit threat being that he would start up on his own ) for £100,000 . |
| 13 | Can you hold it here so it 's security keys and I have n't turned it round the other way . |
| 14 | Total marketing and sales expenses increased as it turns itself into a market-driven company to $24.3m , up 45% . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Now you 'd better start turning me into a space-station commander . ’ |
| 17 | She 's turning me into a wild animal . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Do n't miss out the l or you 'll start turning me into a Parisian grocer . |
| 20 | Very light , very hurried steps , but the bare , glossy wood turned them into a muffled drum-roll . |
| 21 | Our questions ranged far and wide and his courtesy and patience turned them into an intriguing trail of discovery which was endlessly fascinating and richly rewarding , for he is also a natural raconteur . |
| 22 | Nothing really constructive got done there But it was where we first had a serious go at turning ourselves into a real band . |
| 23 | But his self-education had been very thorough , so that he turned himself into a good Latinist and a good Grecian also , as Pound in Confucius to Cummins acknowledged . |
| 24 | Having begun as a left-arm spinner he turned himself into a fast-medium bowler who frequently took the new ball and who at times could be decidedly nippy . |
| 25 | The 37-year-old man turned himself into a human fireball in front of estranged wife Brenda , 35 . |
| 26 | A MAN turned himself into a human fireball as a protest against Western inaction in Bosnia , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 27 | CHESTER 'S ex-town crier yesterday turned himself into a human fireball outside the office of his former girlfriend . |
| 28 | CHESTER 'S ex-town crier yesterday turned himself into a human fireball outside the office of his former girlfriend . |
| 29 | FORMER town crier Mike Chittenden turned himself into a human fireball outside the office of his former girlfriend . |
| 30 | He then turned himself into an enormous DRAGON and settled down on top of the cache . |