Example sentences of "turned them into " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our questions ranged far and wide and his courtesy and patience turned them into an intriguing trail of discovery which was endlessly fascinating and richly rewarding , for he is also a natural raconteur . |
| 2 | In her book Beautiful Theories , the late Elizabeth Bruss made a revealing examination of the way in which Barthes 's different translators carried out their task ; she shows that whereas Heath did not disguise the difficulty and opacity in Barthes 's texts , his American translators turned them into smooth narratives . |
| 3 | Japan shredded a large proportion of the dolphins it hunted and turned them into fertiliser . |
| 4 | Finally a solution was found — large numbers of animals were rapidly disposed of by sending them whole or shredded to a plant which turned them into fertiliser . |
| 5 | Ivy grew around the columns left between doorways and windows , and turned them into foliated columns . |
| 6 | When the messages were decoded they emerged as apparently meaningless blocks of letters , and these were passed on to the linguists in Hut 3 who turned them into intelligible German . |
| 7 | As summer drew on , the ocean of green became darker and darker until the first fires of autumn caught the leaves and turned them into a patchwork of burnished copper and gold leaving the black of the yews standing out once more . |
| 8 | He took nasty live people , and turned them into nice dead ones . |
| 9 | Though the city itself was speedily taken , the forts held out stubbornly , obliging the attackers to bring up heavy howitzers , whose huge , destructive , armour-piercing shells swiftly demolished the concrete and steel fortifications and turned them into death traps . |
| 10 | The French peasantry 's revolutionary energies were soon dissipated and channelled into supporting Napoleon Bonaparte 's military regime after the abolition of the aristocracy and land reforms turned them into small property-owners . |
| 11 | In the islands almost all white men were part of a rigid structure that turned them into guards and gaolers . |
| 12 | In August the concession of autonomy to the universities simply turned them into centres for the most frenzied political activity and public debate . |
| 13 | Implicitly , it may be argued , this turned them into collaborators with the Japanese ; although the latter , for their part , were content to maintain the superstructure of French administration even if , as events were subsequently to show , the realities of power were theirs . |
| 14 | Some dealers in either social camp will risk account-trading for themselves , often in tens of thousands of pounds , as a result of an Harvard Securities PLC , 95 Southwark Street , London SE1 which has taken people off the streets and turned them into high earning dealers , sometimes within weeks . |
| 15 | What is not disputed , however , is that their current degree of refinement and decorative panache is primarily the result of the skill and artistry of the 16th and 17th-century Persian weavers and designers , who took a number of hitherto rather simple motifs and compositions and turned them into some of the most beautiful , elaborate and awe-inspiring examples of textile art the world has ever known . |
| 16 | There were four such systems : Acorn , Pin , Mosaic and Superprofiles , all of which took a number of census variables and turned them into groups . |
| 17 | He had taken the pleasantest , south-facing rooms of the house and turned them into what he described as a ‘ suite ’ for his parent . |
| 18 | Of one preincarnation he is certain : he was , at some point during the Roman Empire , the director of a troupe of travelling comedians , the sort of plausible rogue who bought women in Sicily and turned them into actresses , a rowdy mixture of teacher , pimp and artist . |
| 19 | Quinn 's line of thought can be traced back to earlier works such as those of Lindblom ( 1959 ) and Wrapp ( 1967 ) , but he took these general ideas and turned them into a framework for observing organization behaviour and then into practical recommendations for the chief executive who is responsible for strategic change . |
| 20 | Very light , very hurried steps , but the bare , glossy wood turned them into a muffled drum-roll . |
| 21 | They took David Platt , Geoff Thomas and Rob Jones and turned them into star material and now they 've got a first-year apprentice called Francis Tierney . |
| 22 | The British secret service came up with a a stroke of some genius when the stopped having our operatives shot when they caught them and simply turned them into double agents . ’ |