Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] turned [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1950s machine translation programme which turned a visiting general 's test sentence ‘ The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak ’ into Russian and then back into ‘ The steak is wonderful but the whisky is lousy ’ is probably apocryphal , but nevertheless all too plausible . |
| 2 | Through the late 1980s another force was at work which turned the Provincial sector 's fortunes further round . |
| 3 | One evening he turned a small chair over on its side and said ‘ While I 'm gone , Geraldine , dear , could you work on turning this chair into a forest ? ’ |
| 4 | In Samuel Johnson and David Thomson , Nairn created a happy conjunction of two men who turned the factual stuff of their lives into beauty : not by great timeless plot , nor by intricate , archetypal and immortally-spoken characterisation , as Shakespeare did , but by felicity of spirit and language . |
| 5 | It was this absolute conviction which turned a gifted politician into one of history 's most significant leaders . |