Example sentences of "[noun] turned a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | McPhee turned a concerned face towards him . |
| 32 | Stigwood turned a local scene into an international sensation , launched John Travolta as a box office star and cult hero and masterminded the biggest-selling soundtrack album of all time with a movie that encapsulated the energy and release of the disco age . |
| 33 | The whole hand turned a deep shade of scarlet , the flesh itself heating up . |
| 34 | The radical Mamba darabiner turned a few eyes on the DMM stand . |
| 35 | This was the normal relaxation of a king 's leisure : Henry I of Germany was so keen a huntsman that he ‘ would take forty or more wild beasts in a day ’ ; the Norman kings turned a substantial proportion of their kingdom into game preserves ; hunting was the natural sport of a militant aristocracy , venting on animals the energy and spleen left over from fighting their own kind . |
| 36 | We met when I was researching some material on community care , and her great good humour and flawless memory for fascinating aspects of social history turned a one-off interview into an intermittently enjoyed friendship . |
| 37 | Back in the study , Flora turned a beseeching face upon Anna . |
| 38 | Our knowledge of all these sides of religious life at Canterbury at the time of the Conquest has had to be reconstructed by laborious scholarship , largely because Lanfranc turned a blind eye to every aspect of a native religious tradition . |
| 39 | Dinah turned a radiant smile on him . |
| 40 | Using the Temple as a short cut was also forbidden by Jewish Law and yet the priests turned a blind eye to it because it brought more trade into the Temple . |
| 41 | EVIL robbers turned a terrified bank guard into a human bomb and threatened to blow him up before stealing £23 million in cash . |
| 42 | EVIL robbers turned a terrified bank guard into a human bomb and threatened to blow him up before stealing £23 million in cash . |
| 43 | Luke turned a venomous face to him . |
| 44 | So the Foreign Office turned a bland eye — nobody was exactly complaining out loud — and we took on the whole Sims organisation as a going concern . |
| 45 | But they fell away and Schmeichel turned a fierce shot from Micky Adams against the outside of a post , and substitute Nicky Banger sent a tremendous shot from long range past the post with the goalkeeper beaten . |
| 46 | James 's pudgy face turned a dull red . |
| 47 | His sallow face turned a dull pink and his voice , never particularly strong or resonant , became a querulous squeak . |
| 48 | Instantly , Mr Bumble sat down by the fire and gave the widow such a warm smile that her face turned a delicate pink . |
| 49 | Bull O'Malley 's red face turned a deeper shade . |