Example sentences of "turning them into " in BNC.
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| 1 | His government has had considerable success in winning over guerrilla field commanders and turning them into semi-autonomous militias with lavish handouts of money and arms . |
| 2 | Any moment now , Judi would be turning them into a Jury , appealing for their verdict on the Nielsen family . |
| 3 | The revolution , through state control , has given agricultural labourers greater security and better wages by turning them into state employees . |
| 4 | It was boarding that gave solidity to the schools , turning them into total societies — often in rural and inaccessible surroundings — and reinforcing both achievement and a potent sense of cohesion . |
| 5 | Alcoves and corners can all be put to good use by turning them into highly attractive display features . |
| 6 | Anywhere you have a major or minor triad , practise turning them into sus2 chords by the formula outlined here . |
| 7 | In theory , there are three months of leadership contest in which to explore these and other interesting questions ; and one would hope that , even with a new leader , the party would still be able to discuss fundamental issues without turning them into questions of loyalty . |
| 8 | His wife Josephine , 53 , said : ‘ John loves cleaning up old shell casings and turning them into umbrella stands . |
| 9 | Teachers , though in some cases suspicious that these new demands were turning them into social workers , realised that this role brought them benefits . |
| 10 | Certain that it was the only true begetter of G&S , indifferent to new theatrical styles , D'Oyly Carte presented the same productions year after year , turning them into a rather dreary ritual . |
| 11 | In the ‘ we-reap-as-we-sow ’ category this week there are reports by Computer Reseller News that WordPerfect is now thinking about dusting off its long-standing complaints against Microsoft Corp and turning them into an anti-trust action if the US Federal Trade Commission does n't hop to and litigate . |
| 12 | It 's a surprise too that the school has survived , but when they were killing off all the grammar schools in this country and turning them into comprehensives and middle schools and sixth-form colleges and everyone was getting shoved in with everyone else . |
| 13 | Most of the buyers are women — so is the auctioneer , a brawny , competent , good-humoured young woman with a Levantine cast of countenance and a thick Midi accent — who will re-sell them locally this very evening ; any minute now the housewives of Martigues and Lavéra and round about will be turning them into la soupe or la friture for the evening meal . |
| 14 | Now if you know that somebody is a drug addict and they 've just had an injection you keep away from them , erm if they 're having a bad trip , whatever they call it , because you do n't , they become very violent , they can do a lot of damage , now the only time you will step in and help is when they go unconscious , but at the same time remember protect yourself , we 're talking about needles here and probably shared needles , you must be terribly careful that you do not get pricked by a needle , especially if , they have a habit of sticking needles under lapels , so always be aware of this , if a person is a drug addict , in fact if you can find some easier way of turning them into the recovery position , do so , erm , you can then obviously either call the ambulance . |
| 15 | The dip-shit little bastards deserve the fucking Micks turning them into mince ; saw the inside of an armoured car once ; been blown to buggery ; thrown a hundred feet into the air and then rolled all the way down a hill ; we took turns looking inside just to prove we were real men ; looked like the inside of a fucking slaughter-house … ’ |
| 16 | I 'll know it 'll be he who 'll end up cassandring me , precisely in nomansland where the male gods will ever take over the pythian oracles , turning them into twittering spokespersons . |
| 17 | They put their muck , untreated into rivers , turning them into a dirty brown evil smelling soup . |
| 18 | Creole and Cajun cooking are broadly French-based , but they reflect the great American ability to assimilate other cultures , turning them into something uniquely their own . |
| 19 | The 1944 Education Act created a unified framework which brought the church schools under state control ( turning them into maintained schools ) , but left them with varying degrees of independence , usually over religious matters , according to how much financial support the church continued to provide . |
| 20 | The government also proposed a new media policy , giving the television service , Doordarshan , and All-India Radio autonomy by turning them into public corporations , similar to the status enjoyed in the United Kingdom by the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) . |
| 21 | ‘ No , ’ she moaned in a fever against the side of his dark head , ‘ do n't ; I do n't want — ’ Then his mouth covered her own again , cutting off her protests and turning them into stifled , half-broken cries . |
| 22 | A car enthusiast has found a new way of making money out of Minis … he 's turning them into furniture . |
| 23 | A car enthusiast has found a new way of making money out of Minis … he 's turning them into furniture.He 's making sofas which he calls driving seats … and they 're selling all over the world.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 24 | The council hopes to shred more than a thousand trees this year … turning them into wood chips … |
| 25 | Yet , apart from these and a couple of stagings of The Tempest , choreographers have tended to present Shakespeare only in one act form , at best condensing the great poetic dramas into intense and intimate character studies at worst , turning them into a slide show of cliched vignettes . |
| 26 | EVC , an ICI/EniChem joint-venture PVC manufacturing company , recycles PET and PVC bottles by turning them into powder or granules and selling these on . |