Example sentences of "[verb] turn 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 | For instance if you want to turn an object on a lathe erm and you go from one end of a shaft to the other , no matter , supposing you do it ten times , erm the machine will take that cut in exactly the same time . |
| 3 | It risks turning a triumph into an irrelevance . |
| 4 | But this is a plot development — the plot development — and , if it involves turning a couple of Aled Jones types into Oliver Reeds , why let logic get in the way ? |
| 5 | Rohmer was not going to turn a gun on him again , and he was not going to allow this to happen . |
| 6 | This regulatory code is put to even greater effect when it is used to turn an exchange of missiles between rioters and police into a surreal game of football in which the rules have been deliberately bent to give the ‘ opposing team ’ an unfair advantage ! |
| 7 | The computer has dealt what will prove to be a mortal blow to the ‘ priesthood ’ of printing — those who have spent many years gaining the skills needed to turn a typescript into a printed page . |
| 8 | The private farmers pay more for everything than the collectives , labour materials , taxes , yet they 're beginning to turn a profit from the soil . |
| 9 | Marr would n't have turned a hair on that , thought Theodora , but she said nothing . |
| 10 | Endill sat beside him and he started turning a handle at the front of it . |
| 11 | It does not try to turn a Scot into an Englishman , or suppose a recruit 's upbringing has no bearing on his suitability for officer training , or pretend that men and woman have identical abilities . |
| 12 | Eschewing both rutted ‘ autoroute ’ and Paris-Dakar ’ engineering , ten couples somehow cajoled their 2CVs across the Sahara and eight survived to turn a brain-storm into an annual rally . |
| 13 | Eschewing both rutted ‘ autoroute ’ and ‘ Paris-Dakar ’ engineering , ten couples somehow cajoled their 2CVs across the Sahara and eight survived to turn a brain-storm into an annual rally . |
| 14 | The fat cook pushed him out of the way , coming to turn a pan of potatoes roasting under spitted beef . |
| 15 | Subsequent or alternative drinks had to be paid for at saloon-bar prices , so Clive managed to turn a profit on the evening . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There is , too , the appalling possibility that the corrupting tendency of power would operate to turn a meritocracy into a Nomenklatura . |
| 18 | A group needs time for the processes to develop to turn a number of individuals into a group , no matter how well they know each other . |
| 19 | Ibn Fayoud half closed his eyes as if someone had turned a knife in his guts . |
| 20 | As Farrell ( 1980:287 ) explains , ‘ Internment had turned a campaign of pinpricks into an all-out war . ’ |
| 21 | He felt as if his entire arm and hand were ablaze ; as if someone had turned a blowtorch on them . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | During the drive , Ellwood had turned a number of ideas and opportunities over in his mind . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She had turned an act of his own free will into an act of meek obedience to her . |
| 26 | It seemed to me he was trying to turn an apple into an orange or an aeroplane into a horse . ’ |
| 27 | In the 74th minute Furlong forced Cherry to make the first serious save of the match , and soon afterwards the goalkeeper had to turn a shot from Flynn round a post . |
| 28 | a ‘ quick-service hatch ’ and lots of ‘ go ’ have turned a liability into a success . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | You now have to turn a mass of information into a coherent argument . |