Example sentences of "[adv] turn [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In cold winter weather it develops a terminal misfire starting with a slight loss of power which slowly turns into a worsening , choking misfire eventually stopping the vehicle . |
| 2 | In the summertime , it is alive with hot fumes and rampant dogs and fashionable bathers crawling up Highgate Road on their way to the Heath , where they claim respective ponds and languor till the sky slowly turns to a soothing summer gold . |
| 3 | Both partner horses whose careers took down turns after a promising start and now need to prove themselves again . |
| 4 | Amazingly , the film takes on instant depth the minute it touches ‘ American ’ soil , suggesting something very like moral ambiguity as Columbus suddenly turns into the hard-arsed imperialist we now fondly imagine him to be . |
| 5 | She never uses the central heating system , only turns on a single bar of her electric fire for about half an hour and then off again for another half hour or so . |
| 6 | Somehow her own anger and his frustration together turned into a mutual all-embracing passion , and they clung together , hating and loving at the same time . |
| 7 | And after a number of false dawns , it seems the private insurance industry will shortly be able to offer some sort of long term care insurance product — if it succeeds conventional health and social services could be put out to tender , and perhaps turned into a commercial operation . |
| 8 | Voluptuous girlfriends , sisters and mothers constantly turned against the hot dusty wind to secure their cascading glossy hair with plastic bull-dog clips . |
| 9 | French biologists ignored Darwin and only turned to a Lamarckian version of evolutionism in the 1880s . |
| 10 | He and Whoopi met making Made In America , having a screen romance that swiftly turned into a real one . |
| 11 | One of the images showed the trail of a particle more massive than an electron which suddenly turned through a sharp angle making an L-shape , and whose thickness and character changed at the kink . |
| 12 | In general , though , it was considered taboo — a place scientists should not tread — until the tide apparently turned at the 1986 international conference of human geneticists in Berlin , where participants openly discussed the possibilities . |
| 13 | But there are ways of gradually increasing daily physical activity without necessarily turning to a specific form of sport . |
| 14 | Johnny had another couple of seasons as a player , but he retired after a nasty fractured cheekbone and broken jaw early in 1962–63 , only to turn to the commercial side of the game and build a new and successful career there . |
| 15 | Brutus says that if Caesar is crowned he will not only turn into a dangerous animal , but it will allow him to harm the public . |
| 16 | Although her owners had tried every method of finding her , including local radio appeals , Tim Charlesworth eventually turned to the last resort of hiring a helicopter to help in the search . |
| 17 | By way of variation , though , she sang a simple setting of a poignant old Irish poem , which began in a lovely duet between her and Kellock , with drummer John Rae on bodhran , but eventually turned into a full-steam work out for the trio , which was completed by bass player Andy Mitchell . |
| 18 | In a corner of the floor stood a saucer of milk which had long since turned to an unsavoury junket embellished with blue mould . |
| 19 | The pornographic monologue of the monk 's expressed thoughts soon turns into a pornographic play , in the dialogue between monk and wife whereby each tests and reassures the other that their desires , and their readiness to hide those desires under the dissimulation of a financial bargain , match . |
| 20 | But Faye had already turned to the thick , creamy frontispiece to check for herself before leafing through the rest of the volume . |
| 21 | The salmon had already turned into a ravening wolf , eating at my innards . |
| 22 | You should n't , if you 've already turned into a full-time clergyman 's wife . |
| 23 | And he just turned round the other belt him ! |
| 24 | He was just turning into the featureless modern office block that housed the Heyes-Farringdon Company where Helen worked , when his eye was suddenly caught by a sign on the other side of the street : The Olivera Typewriter Company . |
| 25 | He hurried on , sighting Clare and Underwood in the distance just turning off the main road up the hill . |
| 26 | ‘ Look , you , ’ he said , finally turning to the chief inspector , ‘ what do you think you 're doing ? ’ |
| 27 | What began as an exotic flirtation with the Other , a pop foray into a perceived Heart of Darkness , soon turned into a full-blown dance initiative in those irony-clad years of 1980–81 , with everyone from Japan to ABC to Cabaret Voltaire to Spandau Ballet to Heaven 17 conspiring to venture a white funk whose snappiness was a jeer at the indies , a white funk that would saunter easily into the charts and every other public place and , with their manifestos , make them better places to be . |
| 28 | There was good reason for this : when Government ministers want to test opinion in a particular sector , they normally turn to a single trade body , such as the National Farmers Union , the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders , or the Retail Consortium . |
| 29 | Well we went off , we got off at Peel which was the other side as you know and there was Peel Castle right on the hill there and erm well after , and she said we wo n't go to these sea front cafes , well I know a nice restaurant , she said , up that road , and she said , just turn to the right and there we are , see . |
| 30 | Take a Dominican anole from the south ( left ) , move it to the north , and chances are it will soon turn into a genuine northerner ( below ) . |