Example sentences of "[verb] to turn a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Rohmer was not going to turn a gun on him again , and he was not going to allow this to happen . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The private farmers pay more for everything than the collectives , labour materials , taxes , yet they 're beginning to turn a profit from the soil . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The fat cook pushed him out of the way , coming to turn a pan of potatoes roasting under spitted beef . |
| 10 | Subsequent or alternative drinks had to be paid for at saloon-bar prices , so Clive managed to turn a profit on the evening . |
| 11 | There is , too , the appalling possibility that the corrupting tendency of power would operate to turn a meritocracy into a Nomenklatura . |
| 12 | A group needs time for the processes to develop to turn a number of individuals into a group , no matter how well they know each other . |
| 13 | It seemed to me he was trying to turn an apple into an orange or an aeroplane into a horse . ’ |
| 14 | In the 74th minute Furlong forced Cherry to make the first serious save of the match , and soon afterwards the goalkeeper had to turn a shot from Flynn round a post . |
| 15 | You now have to turn a mass of information into a coherent argument . |
| 16 | He 's managed to turn a triumph into a public relations disaster . |