Example sentences of "[vb -s] turn [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ I ’ describing conversations he has n't direct access to , which he was n't present at , which he may not even have been told about and so may be inventing , is the ‘ character ’ Dostoevsky has turned himself into for the purpose of narrating the provincial chronicle . |
| 2 | This ‘ I ’ is the first-person narrator inside the frame of the provincial chronicle , the ‘ character ’ Dostoevsky has turned himself into . |
| 3 | DALIAN ATKINSON has turned himself from a confessed ‘ fat , lazy , depressive ’ into one of the country 's most lethal marksmen . |
| 4 | DALIAN ATKINSON has turned himself from a confessed ‘ fat , lazy , depressive ’ into one of the country 's most lethal marksmen . |
| 5 | The Democratic Party has turned itself into a ‘ small enterprise ’ . |
| 6 | A hospital has turned itself into a charity to prevent the Health Authority closing it down . |
| 7 | Place and spirit of place is the inspiration of more poetry than we nowadays like to admit ; and to do that poetry justice , the critic needs to turn himself into a tourist . |