Example sentences of "[verb] to turn [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These people , Miss Schlegel , invented Disneyland and now want to turn the rest of the world into a theme park , too , by bribing ancient and civilised peoples to caper and prance for thuggish tourists . |
| 2 | ‘ The Conservatives want to turn the NHS into an industry , they say that will bring a better service to the consumer , but health should n't be an industry . ’ |
| 3 | For instance if you want to turn an object on a lathe erm and you go from one end of a shaft to the other , no matter , supposing you do it ten times , erm the machine will take that cut in exactly the same time . |
| 4 | The work of the NLRB and the publicity generated by civil liberties groups helped to turn the tide against industrial violence : |
| 5 | You women are all the same — a man just has to turn the corner of the street and the next thing , they 're all eyes and lips and tongue and sucking me ’ — he tripped , changed ‘ sucking him towards them . |
| 6 | It is applied to turn the wood into an alkaline condition , so that when the ‘ B ’ or No. 2 solution is applied , it will liberate oxygen , thus bleaching the wood . |
| 7 | Eric , who sold his house for the venture , is the resident caretaker , and plans to turn the house into a base for fellow trainspotters are under way . |
| 8 | Next year she plans to turn the garage into a games room for table tennis . |
| 9 | This was the most spectacular humiliation suffered by any major European state during the seventeenth century ; and Louis did not hesitate to turn the knife in the wound . |
| 10 | I had an old air-raid shelter , partly dug into the ground because of the slope : there was a load of stones on top , waiting to turn the shelter into an apple store disguised as a rockery , and when Mrs Wilson saw this she stood for a long time looking at the hump in the ground and the pile of stones . |
| 11 | Moreover , public expenditure restraints during the 1980s in particular have helped to turn the rhetoric of care by the community into de facto reality , as support services such as home helps and nursing auxiliaries have been reduced or withdrawn — a theme developed by Hilary Land in her chapter here on the demise of the social wage . |
| 12 | Rohmer was not going to turn a gun on him again , and he was not going to allow this to happen . |
| 13 | I 'm going to turn the key on Aladdin 's cave . |
| 14 | ‘ I decided it was time to say goodbye , but before I could give notice Sam Hall , the Benskin 's area manager , phoned me to say the company was going to turn the Harrow into a managed house . |
| 15 | We are not in competition but are part of the same team , and so , in that spirit , I would like to turn the spotlight on our existing systems and make some fairly revolutionary suggestions . |
| 16 | This regulatory code is put to even greater effect when it is used to turn an exchange of missiles between rioters and police into a surreal game of football in which the rules have been deliberately bent to give the ‘ opposing team ’ an unfair advantage ! |
| 17 | Next the reflection tool has been used to turn the copy into a mirror image . |
| 18 | The computer has dealt what will prove to be a mortal blow to the ‘ priesthood ’ of printing — those who have spent many years gaining the skills needed to turn a typescript into a printed page . |
| 19 | He put down the candle and began to turn the pages of the book . |
| 20 | He had come on as sub just as Tottenham began to turn the tide against an Everton side who had torn them apart in the first half . |
| 21 | She threaded up the machine with the right cotton for her curtains , arranged the material in the right position under the needle , and began to turn the handle of the machine . |
| 22 | The private farmers pay more for everything than the collectives , labour materials , taxes , yet they 're beginning to turn a profit from the soil . |
| 23 | Therefore a sensing unit is employed to turn the ozone on and off . |
| 24 | It does not try to turn a Scot into an Englishman , or suppose a recruit 's upbringing has no bearing on his suitability for officer training , or pretend that men and woman have identical abilities . |
| 25 | But the new Headmaster did not try to turn the School into a Technical School with a full science curriculum . |
| 26 | But they did n't leave the room ; instead , Fiona and Fergus , still breathless with giggles , still chattering excitedly away , started to turn the furniture in the room upside down . |
| 27 | He decided to turn the pressure on the Russian . |
| 28 | Eschewing both rutted ‘ autoroute ’ and Paris-Dakar ’ engineering , ten couples somehow cajoled their 2CVs across the Sahara and eight survived to turn a brain-storm into an annual rally . |
| 29 | Eschewing both rutted ‘ autoroute ’ and ‘ Paris-Dakar ’ engineering , ten couples somehow cajoled their 2CVs across the Sahara and eight survived to turn a brain-storm into an annual rally . |
| 30 | The fat cook pushed him out of the way , coming to turn a pan of potatoes roasting under spitted beef . |