Example sentences of "turned [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five years later Sykes turned the knife even further : ‘ You remember that salmon I caught on the Ayr in 1962 ? |
| 2 | Younis arrived in Larnaca on the 10th and joined Hamadan in another two-day , nonstop pub crawl that turned the knife in Hurley 's wound and brought them , on schedule , to the Sheraton resort hotel in Limassol on the night of the 12th . |
| 3 | He turned the vehicle round in the drive and drove off . |
| 4 | He got into the driver 's seat of our car and turned the vehicle round in order to follow the Sierra . ’ |
| 5 | She sat in her car and turned the heater on while she wrote her comments on a piece of paper . |
| 6 | while a plinth of sunlight turned the sea 's roof turquoise |
| 7 | Taking the plate gently from him she placed it in the sink , then checked the turkey one last time , turned the gas down as low as it would go and made her way up to bed . |
| 8 | Then he turned the gas off and poured the contents of the pan into the big metal bin which seems to be compulsory in vegetarian kitchens and which always contains enough mushy peas to drown a Rugby League team . |
| 9 | Grobbelaar flapped at McGee 's cross and when Miller drove in a low shot Sanchez turned the ball into the net . |
| 10 | There was ‘ Deadly ’ Derek Underwood , who was quick through the air , turned the ball and had marvellous control . |
| 11 | In injury time Erith made absolutely certain of victory when Battram turned the ball in from close range as the Braintree defence was caught out . |
| 12 | Gary Lund raced in for the rebound but Marker turned the ball round the post . |
| 13 | Ropati added the goal but Leeds replied when Gregory turned the ball inside for half-back partner Garry Schofield to score on 16 minutes . |
| 14 | What turned the campaign around was playing on another strength : his genuine fondness for getting among the public , even a hostile public . |
| 15 | The grammar turned the whole of my stomach over like a huge unwieldy omelette . |
| 16 | The profound embarrassment of Morrissey 's dancing turned the lack of oneness with your body into glamour . |
| 17 | Salt 's great shoulders twitched as she turned the pie and put it back , but she did n't deny it . |
| 18 | He turned the bread over to grease its upper side , then climbed on a stool to cut another thick wedge from the loaf . |
| 19 | Thus in a bid to weaken Arab support for allied action , Saddam turned the bunker deaths of Iraqi citizens into an international photo-opportunity while allied and Iraqi intelligence continue to collude in suppressing images of the dead Iraqi conscripts slaughtered by the bombing of Kuwait . |
| 20 | What turned the rising of 17–18 July 1936 into a civil war was , first of all , the rebels ' failure , due to hesitation and division within the officer corps and the militarized police forces , to seize control quickly enough throughout the country ; second , the decision of the Republican government to arm the UGT and CNT militias , which contributed to the defeat of the rising in important centres ; and finally the intervention of foreign powers , enabling the two sides to continue the struggle indefinitely . |
| 21 | He came to an arrangement with two more actors , gave the camera crews some private pocket money and turned the film over to his assistants . |
| 22 | She turned the possibility round and round in her head . |
| 23 | The Second Vice-President took over defence of the Bill in the House and turned the discussion away from considerations of press freedom to a critique of newspapers like the Standard , which were owned by capitalists . |
| 24 | Laura turned the watch upon her palm . |
| 25 | A stray chip turned the windshield white , and Susan pushed it out in a lump . |
| 26 | It was Morgan 's handling of the attempted bank raid a few days earlier in Cardiff which turned the trick . |
| 27 | The shouted question turned the prince stern faced and glum . |
| 28 | She plastered a polite smile on her face and turned the door-handle . |
| 29 | His queen , Persephone , became jealous and turned the nymph into the plant mint . |
| 30 | I turned the cab back , deciding to breakfast somewhere and wait until I could speak to Miss Grey … |