Example sentences of "turn a " in BNC.
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| 1 | To a fevered imagination , it seems no one can turn a corner in the crowded conference complex without running into a mug shot of one or other high-theoretician leering pensively from a wall of hardback dust covers . |
| 2 | How do you turn a clapped-out Lada into a Mercedes while driving down the motorway ? |
| 3 | Get the car slightly crossed-up and the pendulum-like effect of the heavy tail could turn a twitch into a slide . |
| 4 | Something as simple as a mug can turn a handful of pansies into a vivid display . |
| 5 | The latter has said that he could not necessarily turn a blind eye to this … especially if there were complaints from other parties ; as you are well aware the commission have the power to seek repayment . |
| 6 | A good word from Dave Power can turn a car into an enormous hit ; a bad word can wreck it . |
| 7 | With stallions , anxiety can turn a normally peaceable horse into an angry , rearing , uncontrollable animal when brought near a mare that is in season . |
| 8 | There are some steamy bed scene , which may be too hot for most of Kylie 's young fans to see , but it could turn a whole new audience on to her charms . |
| 9 | I do n't know where she lived , but years later , as I walked to the gymnasium , I would often turn a corner and see Rebecca 's burning eyes . |
| 10 | For example if one succussion will turn a 29c into a 30c then extra succussions will simply intensify on the 30c level . |
| 11 | The songs of birds if listened to with a creative ear , can turn a garden into an enchanted place . |
| 12 | Some said his wife did n't turn a hair any more when Sammy was carried in like a drowned rat . |
| 13 | Two rotors turning opposite ways can turn a ship on the spot . |
| 14 | ‘ There are , ’ he replied , ‘ certain plants which cut , distilled and treated , can turn a man 's mind and raise phantasms in his soul ; the deadly nightshade , the purple foxglove , above all the flowers of Hecate , Queen of the Night , the black hellebore . |
| 15 | Sam could turn a family disagreement into a war , a difference of opinion into a drama . |
| 16 | If events contradict the way we see things , we may either turn a blind eye or resist hotly . |
| 17 | Ben the actor appeared beside them and started his piece , and I saw Filmer turn a bland face towards him and watched his mouth shape the unmistakable words , ‘ Go away . ’ |
| 18 | high interest rates can turn a wise investment into an uphill struggle . |
| 19 | It is sometimes said of Parliament that , say , it can make it a crime for a Frenchman to smoke on the streets of Paris , or that it can not turn a man into a woman . |
| 20 | To have no line of communication to your own kind available can turn a tolerable solitude into a state of intolerable isolation ; and yet thousands of elderly people , who live on their own and are too frail to go out , are in this position . |
| 21 | And try as hard as they do , residential staff can never turn a residential establishment into a home . |
| 22 | ‘ God , that would turn a few of them over in their graves up there under the yew trees , ’ Benny 's father had said , but again there was no explanation of why . |
| 23 | He 's nice to us because we do n't threaten him , and because he 's cultivated the vote catching art of being modestly affable , but wearing cowboy boots and grinning like a demented Howdy-Doody does n't turn a rattlesnake into a puppy ! ’ |
| 24 | There was no way in which he could turn a young man 's allegiance completely against his motherland in just three weeks . |
| 25 | It is clear that a leisure centre can turn a Monday-to-Thursday out-of-town operation into a seven-day-a-week one and thus substantially increase occupancy rates . |
| 26 | Draconian cost controls , improved distribution and a clampdown on high-spending franchisees helped turn a near-£1m loss into a better-than-expected £301,000 profit in the six months to August 16 . |
| 27 | Such a quantity of natural ability can sometimes cause inner confusion and players like him can turn a match on its head sometimes without knowing how it happened or how they did it . |
| 28 | These are n't in the same league as the gas variety when it comes to providing ‘ real ’ flames , but there 's a wide variety available , and they can just add that cosy finishing touch which helps turn a house into a home . |
| 29 | ‘ He 'd turn a 40-60 ball round the other way . |
| 30 | Sky-high costs in places like the US can turn a dream holiday into an costly nightmare that lasts for months after . |