Example sentences of "turn them into " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter tried to rouse his countrymen from their aboriginal stupor and turn them into Europeans ; but a Russian is n't and ca n't be a German or a Frenchman , and the result of Peter 's efforts was to produce an educated class who ca n't be Russians either . |
| 2 | We also multiplied average scores by ten to eliminate decimal points , and turn them into percentages . |
| 3 | Shops like these are the only outlets for such abominations , and the only way you can stop the terrors of opening horrible gifts and feigning delight is to become rich enough to buy them out and turn them into cake shops . |
| 4 | What God wants to do is take these little deaths in our lives and turn them into fruitfulness . |
| 5 | It 's back — Oz Clarke 's Wine Guide 1993 returns for its ninth year with a prediction : that Australian winemakers who know ‘ how to take a pile of sows ’ ears and turn them into silk purses ’ are taking over from the vineyards of Europe . |
| 6 | A non-starter for council arts venues ; turn them into trusts instead . |
| 7 | Adam Gopnik actually once compared him to William Blake , saying Steinberg could , like Blake , ‘ make the life of the mind visible … take metaphors and abstract ideas and turn them into drawings . ’ |
| 8 | She prided herself on her ability to sift through the most innocent conversations and turn them into major scandals . |
| 9 | Managers had hoped that closer co-operation with the unions would make the committees a place for consultation , not turn them into a battleground . |
| 10 | Ok , Time found hidden in a hard day , dry earth becomes a dance floor , audience of three fowl , the fourth along with a reaper turns it back , wooden shoes meant for mud , rug on dancing feet Erm the next one is the still life on , on with three puppies , while I was looking at Gaugin 's work I could n't help but notice he 's constantly struck by the fact that he use set of three symbols through out his work it seems , and very , very often three caricatures erm or lines of three or three objects and I found this very interesting , more point of view that something that I , I wanted to incorporate in my own work , but I wanted to find a line or a phrase to use in the same way , erm , all of my work starts as one or a series of visual images and , and I then turn them into characters , repeating a word or repeating a line would be a way of erm emphasising characterise erm and the puppies that are in this painting erm , they delighted my children so much , I do n't know if any of you know , do you know the painting of the three puppies |
| 11 | We need the winds everywhere and we rely on people in Florida state to take these very sparse observations and turn them into a map which covers the whole surface of the tropical Pacific . |
| 12 | They come up with the Big Ideas and build the organizations — the Big Machines — that turn them into reality . |
| 13 | ‘ It bothers me that , as a designer , I take natural resources and turn them into something which will eventually be thrown away to become landfill . |
| 14 | ‘ You might like the results , I turn them into drawings , I do n't just use them as photographs . ’ |
| 15 | If they are broken up , turn them into a fish paste . |
| 16 | I was shocked and saddened by Joan Hamer ; saddened that a woman should wish to remove women 's choices and turn them into second-class citizens ; shocked that she 's so young yet so old-fashioned . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , working class women could still filter out useful information from a visit to a School for Mothers , and as the local authorities increasingly came to take over the Schools and Babies ' Welcomes and turn them into infant welfare centres , so they became more acceptable to working class women . |
| 18 | It did to some extent aggregate demands and turn them into viable policy issues , and it also acted as a downward channel of communication , explaining and rationalizing government policies in the hope of their greater acceptance by the citizens . |
| 19 | ‘ You can just jump down on everyone and turn them into worms , ’ the imp added encouragingly , ignoring his last remark . |
| 20 | Back at the hacienda she abandoned the horses and fled to her room , leaving the others to see to them and turn them into the enclosures . |
| 21 | Let a rug or painting suggest or inspire the colour scheme ; if you ca n't revamp old curtains ( though beware ! re-making can sometimes be just as expensive as starting afresh ) turn them into cushions ; cut down carpets which no longer fit but are too good to be thrown out , and make them into small rugs . |
| 22 | Turn them into public gardens and you create an attraction instead of an eyesore . |
| 23 | What , you , you , you turn them into the paddock ? |
| 24 | big triangles of cloth in and turn them into flares then ? |
| 25 | they did , they nick everybody else 's ideas and turn them into something else so well |
| 26 | erm What you ca n't do is take somebody who really the very idea of computers , and turn them into a successful computer operator , because they will make mistakes , and having made mistakes they will be terrified and wo n't want to do it again . |