Example sentences of "[verb] turned a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From a financial point of view , the insurance has turned a disaster into an inconvenience . |
| 2 | Marr would n't have turned a hair on that , thought Theodora , but she said nothing . |
| 3 | Ibn Fayoud half closed his eyes as if someone had turned a knife in his guts . |
| 4 | As Farrell ( 1980:287 ) explains , ‘ Internment had turned a campaign of pinpricks into an all-out war . ’ |
| 5 | He felt as if his entire arm and hand were ablaze ; as if someone had turned a blowtorch on them . |
| 6 | Joseph Robinson had blessed his luck to marry a woman who had a certain expectation of such a fine spot and his vigorous commerce had turned a pothouse into a stopover for some of the best in the county , in the land even . |
| 7 | During the drive , Ellwood had turned a number of ideas and opportunities over in his mind . |
| 8 | Climbing the stair behind her , looking up at her clacking legs , his body already responding , he had turned a pillar of pearl into a hard shaft of flesh . |
| 9 | She had turned an act of his own free will into an act of meek obedience to her . |
| 10 | a ‘ quick-service hatch ’ and lots of ‘ go ’ have turned a liability into a success . |
| 11 | At this year 's Chelsea Flower show , a group of prisoners walked off with a silver medal for a garden display.And at the prison itself , they 've been busy creating borders and features that have turned a jail into an oasis of colour . |