Example sentences of "[verb] turn the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now Wilkinson has turned the stale escargot into the galloping gourmet of the English game , a player who can be one of the shining lights of the new Premier League season . |
| 2 | But , it is that very fascination — bordering on fanaticism — with the game that has turned the Afrikaner sport into a political football , as the All Black and Wallaby tourists found out . |
| 3 | For most of Day Two , the sun seemed to shine on Worcestershire , but the game has turned the other way since tea . |
| 4 | His slowness to take decisions can frustrate colleagues , but the strategy he has followed since the £310 million management buy-in of Woolworth in 1982 has turned the renamed Kingfisher group into a British success story on a par with that of British Airways . |
| 5 | I 've walked the Roman road on wet windy December days when clouds have sailed across Drumaldrace and the stone walls have been silvered with rain and I 've sat by Semer Water on sweltering August days when the shimmering haze has turned the wild summer colours into pastel shades . |
| 6 | He threatened to quit the hit series when writers tried to turn the gentle fireman-turned-'tec into a trendy , big-time operator involved with glamour girls and car chases : ‘ It just was n't on , ’ said Michael , back on Tuesday ( ITV , 9pm ) for a seventh Boon series , in a 13-week run . |
| 7 | The British ‘ aristocracy of labour ’ , a stratum peculiar to that country where the class of independent small producers , shopkeepers , etc. , was relatively insignificant , as was the lower middle class of white-collar workers and minor bureaucrats , helped to turn the Liberal Party into a party with genuine mass appeal . |
| 8 | One faction , called the Democratic Platform , wants to turn the Communist party into a social democratic one . |
| 9 | The organisation wants to turn the disused school into a community centre offering religious , educational and leisure facilities . |
| 10 | The antifeminist teaching of Repertoire de Science ( " the Body of Knowledge " ) in the Miroir de Mariage is similarly designed to turn the male character Franc Vouloir from contemplation of an earthly marriage to contemplation of a spiritual and divine one . |
| 11 | 4 Some reflex actions have to be learnt such as tying a shoe lace , chewing a pencil under stress and biting nails , but others come naturally from the moment we are born like digestion , breathing and jerking our big toe out of the bath water when we have forgotten to turn the cold tap on . |
| 12 | It 's almost like the ceremony of ordaining a bishop in fact if I 'd turned the wrong page we could have ended up with a bishop rather than an abbot you know |
| 13 | ‘ There 's a lot of potential here and since coming I can see how much Frank has done to turn the playing side round . |
| 14 | Then one evening as she was tidying up the room he said as quietly as if he were taking rifle aim , ‘ There 's no need for you to go turning the whole place upside down . |
| 15 | Sometimes it can be slightly embarrassing to be successful at something , and if you are beginning to turn the occasional head now that you are slimmer you may come in for some negative comments from your rivals . |
| 16 | It could have turned the other way ; in case you might think this was a simple transaction — it was not . |
| 17 | And so with the help of these , they just managed to do a bit of slate , but if them had not gone back , I thinks this this strike would have turned the other way . |
| 18 | For a second she thought they must have turned the other way , and then she saw them again , riding through the trees , the sunlight striking them before they moved off into the shadows . |
| 19 | It is in accordance with such optimism that Euripides should have turned the suffering hero of earlier tragedy into a dialectician and the transcendental justice of Aeschylus into the " poetic justice " dispensed by the deus ex machina who appears at the end of so many of his plays . |
| 20 | You will still have turned the same amount as before , that is 180° . |
| 21 | Lou Reed 's critical rehabilitation is threatening to turn the old sourpuss into rock ‘ n ’ roll 's first Professor of Literature . |
| 22 | If he ever decided to turn the full wattage of his charm on a woman , she thought , distractedly folding some of her clothes into neat piles , he 'd be quite irresistible . |
| 23 | Paul Daniels who has been known to turn the odd trick as has |
| 24 | Labour sought to turn the general election into a referendum on the NHS , asking voters for a mandate to reverse the changes . |
| 25 | ( 36 ) Carefully , cunningly , he was daring to turn the whole situation round to his advantage . |
| 26 | I 've learned to turn the other cheek in a manner that would make Christian proud . |
| 27 | Denis had turned the other chair round and now straddled it , his arms crossed and resting along its back , the gun on the tea-chest within easy reach . |
| 28 | The Israelis had turned the Damiani soap factory into a municipal museum but you could still see the family 's name in fading Arabic letters on the archway at one end of the building . |
| 29 | Before the first shots rang out , Adam had turned the shallow bend and was shielded by the safety of the trees . |
| 30 | Despite the number living in what was quite a small cottage , Mrs. Burden had turned the front room into a shop selling tobacco , confectionery and small oddments . |