Example sentences of "turn [pers pn] into [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 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 19 | SIX people accused of kidnapping a teenage girl and turning her into a human torch appeared in court yesterday . |
| 20 | Now he was turning her into a stammering schoolgirl ! |
| 21 | Behind him , lightning flared , turning him into a stark silhouette against the windows ; flooding the reception with white light . |
| 22 | But whisky turned him into a savage bully . |
| 23 | The trials of his childhood and teenage years turned him into the perfect Prince , but they did not alter his fundamental nature . |
| 24 | Amy 's experiences turned her into a radical activist as a teenager . |
| 25 | Notebooks in hand , they listened beside her hospital bed as she told of how her attacker stripped her , tied her hands behind her back , and turned her into a human rag doll by dumping her in a city rubbish skip . |
| 26 | At one point , towards the end of the seventeenth century , the church was possessed by Daniel Disney who turned it into a Presbyterian Meeting House but by 1812 it was back in the hands of the Church of England again . |
| 27 | One turned it into a front room and one going down , and two in the alley on the left hand side , one in the alley on the right hand side . |
| 28 | He never lost sight of the religious nature of his subject , and never turned it into a boring desert . |
| 29 | They might have had one if Bill could have explained his idea because that 's exactly what Harry Nilsson later did with the song , turned it into a big ballad and scored a number one hit with it . |
| 30 | Instead the overwrought director turned it into a bitter battle which ends with the lover , played by Sydney Pollack , savagely forcing Lysette 's character into his car . |