Example sentences of "[vb past] turn a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Endill sat beside him and he started turning a handle at the front of it . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Subsequent or alternative drinks had to be paid for at saloon-bar prices , so Clive managed to turn a profit on the evening . |
| 5 | Ibn Fayoud half closed his eyes as if someone had turned a knife in his guts . |
| 6 | As Farrell ( 1980:287 ) explains , ‘ Internment had turned a campaign of pinpricks into an all-out war . ’ |
| 7 | He felt as if his entire arm and hand were ablaze ; as if someone had turned a blowtorch on them . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | During the drive , Ellwood had turned a number of ideas and opportunities over in his mind . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She had turned an act of his own free will into an act of meek obedience to her . |
| 12 | 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 . |