Example sentences of "turn [pron] [prep] a [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 | Total marketing and sales expenses increased as it turns itself into a market-driven company to $24.3m , up 45% . |
| 13 | Now you 'd better start turning me into a space-station commander . ’ |
| 14 | She 's turning me into a wild animal . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Do n't miss out the l or you 'll start turning me into a Parisian grocer . |
| 17 | Very light , very hurried steps , but the bare , glossy wood turned them into a muffled drum-roll . |
| 18 | Nothing really constructive got done there But it was where we first had a serious go at turning ourselves into a real band . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The 37-year-old man turned himself into a human fireball in front of estranged wife Brenda , 35 . |
| 22 | A MAN turned himself into a human fireball as a protest against Western inaction in Bosnia , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 23 | CHESTER 'S ex-town crier yesterday turned himself into a human fireball outside the office of his former girlfriend . |
| 24 | CHESTER 'S ex-town crier yesterday turned himself into a human fireball outside the office of his former girlfriend . |
| 25 | FORMER town crier Mike Chittenden turned himself into a human fireball outside the office of his former girlfriend . |
| 26 | CHESTER 'S former town crier was continuing his recovery in hospital yesterday after turning himself into a human fireball last week . |
| 27 | In conversations snatched in the backs of taxis between meetings , and in office anterooms , Branson spoke about the process of turning himself into a public figure if the airline were to succeed , fully aware of the consequences . |
| 28 | At its assembly on Oct. 19-21 , the Public Against Violence ( PAV ) movement , the Slovak equivalent of the Czech Civic Forum , turned itself into a political party named Civic Democratic Union — Public Against Violence . |
| 29 | How Hillary turned herself into a presidential partner . |
| 30 | SIX people accused of kidnapping a teenage girl and turning her into a human torch appeared in court yesterday . |