Example sentences of "turned a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ibn Fayoud half closed his eyes as if someone had turned a knife in his guts . |
| 2 | a ‘ quick-service hatch ’ and lots of ‘ go ’ have turned a liability into a success . |
| 3 | His face had turned a bluish-yellow and his stomach was swollen , straining against the thin linen shirt . |
| 4 | Er looking at the rest of the P and L , you will see that we have split out a profit on sale of fixed assets which is our Lakeside erm Capelat and the Capco shares er which is why the corporate expenses for this other income has turned a way round , it 's gon na be negative nowadays , so we thought it 'd look a little silly saying other income less expenses . |
| 5 | She made a gesture with a graceful hand that shut me up as if it had turned a tap . |
| 6 | She was carrying more rivets than the average U-Boat and would probably have turned a compass away from Magnetic North . |
| 7 | As Farrell ( 1980:287 ) explains , ‘ Internment had turned a campaign of pinpricks into an all-out war . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ They have turned a £14 billion surplus into a massive deficit . ’ |
| 9 | All the child 's socks were dirty so she had turned a pair inside out and put them on her . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | For years she had turned a calm , expressionless face on the world — quiet , distant , not even blatantly cold , because that would have been a challenge to some men . |
| 12 | I wish I had his poise ; he ca n't have expected to see the fräulein , but has n't turned a hair . |
| 13 | Or rather , about finishing up customers ' drinks , for when Albert came in on a Monday morning drunk at his own expense none of his morally outraged proprietors had ever turned a hair . |
| 14 | Marr would n't have turned a hair on that , thought Theodora , but she said nothing . |
| 15 | Mr Hellyer , who was in fact too nice-minded to do so , could have sworn , blasphemed , and Oliver would not have turned a hair . |
| 16 | He felt as if his entire arm and hand were ablaze ; as if someone had turned a blowtorch on them . |
| 17 | The movie business has turned a bit more reticent about the art world since Glimcher 's folly . |
| 18 | The weather had turned a chill grey , and a brisk wind scattered the ashes of half-a-hundred fires . |
| 19 | Readers became familiar with their Doppelgangers , as if they had turned a corner and unexpectedly confronted themselves in a mirror . |
| 20 | She smiled , patted Charlotte 's arm and walked slowly away , the clip of her heels on the marble floor lingering even after she had turned a corner and vanished from sight . |
| 21 | Only when she was out of sight and I had turned a corner did I remember that I had left the little willow leaf from her body lying upstairs on her Sophocles . |
| 22 | He had turned a comer . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | During the drive , Ellwood had turned a number of ideas and opportunities over in his mind . |
| 25 | His McLaren-Honda , which had not turned a wheel until two days before , did not miss a beat . |
| 26 | None of the others appear to have turned a wheel again . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | We meet the schoolboy painter who 's turned a BMW into a work of art . |
| 29 | From a financial point of view , the insurance has turned a disaster into an inconvenience . |
| 30 | The Reverend van Gogh 's servant girl remembered later that Vincent , who had turned a ground floor room into a makeshift studio , would sometimes work all night . |