Example sentences of "[adv] to turn [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out comes a stream of expletives foul enough to turn the ears of Beelzebub blue . |
| 2 | He had only to turn the keys in both doors , take the cash from the tills and then he would be upstairs . |
| 3 | The aim of the schools , said Sidney Webb , was not to turn every man into a skilled worker at an apprenticed trade , but into |
| 4 | He slept immediately and deeply , and then got up at six a.m. to turn the television on and make the tea ready for when the man he lived with got in from work . |
| 5 | Last year Detroit 's car makers thought they were about to turn the corner in their battle against the Japanese . |
| 6 | Then to turn the contents of a pocket into a work of art . |
| 7 | Ardoyne woman Marion Kane , who fought hard to turn the scheme into reality , said : ‘ This is a dream come true and goes to show what can be achieved if local people are determined to have what they deserve . ’ |
| 8 | In the 1960s and 1970s computer experts from manufacturing and other industries showed banks how to turn a chain of paper into a string of digits . |
| 9 | In a unique experiment , police called together members of the public for an all day seminar to discuss how to turn the tables on the burglar and thief . |
| 10 | The working principle of Balcon 's life was that a ‘ film producer is only as good as the sum total of the colleagues with whom he works ’ , and he understood better than anyone else at the time how to turn the studio into a source of creative energy . |
| 11 | When they were installed to start working on 24 October 1931 , the Company 's nine bogie cars and one or two Milnes four wheelers were then taken into store at the L.U.T 's Fulwell Depôt , never to turn a wheel in service again . |