Example sentences of "[noun] turned to [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what had promised to be a happy greeting turned to a strained departure — tonight Adisa was taken onto hospital although she 's since been allowed to leave and join other refugees in Northampton . |
| 2 | A neglected cold turned to a bad fever and I was forced to stay behind in Newcastle , in hospital . |
| 3 | Having spoken of the vital importance of the navy for a trading power , Jervois turned to the urgent need to protect London from an invader , because London was not like Moscow , which the Russians had abandoned before Napoleon and survived , but like Paris . |
| 4 | Officers from the child protection team and social services were called in after the girl turned to an elderly neighbour for help , Scotland Yard said . |
| 5 | Morse turned to the colourful cover , then placed the magazine back casually into the door-pocket . |
| 6 | Malc turned to the required page . |
| 7 | Six weeks later when the Korean War erupted the focus of Acheson 's attention turned to the other side of the world but the concept of all-round defence meant that , for the US , strengthening France and Germany was now even more important in a Europe which , if strong enough , might deter communist aggression and in Asia where the aggression had already begun . |
| 8 | All attention turned to the main reception doors again . |
| 9 | For pleasure and stimulation in this zone of transition many people turned to a criminal way of life . |
| 10 | From behind her the baby 's howl turned to a high-pitched whine , like Concorde warming up . |
| 11 | For while Schopenhauer gave music a gratifyingly important role within his scheme of things , the music on which he based his theories was primarily the formally respectable tradition that he saw represented in Haydn and Mozart ; and the importance he gave to music turned to a large extent on its supposed capacity to foster the right — dispassionate and otherworldly — response . |
| 12 | The bright 21-year-old New York University un-dergraduate turned to a secret life of vice after answering a newspaper advertisement for ‘ Fun-loving Ladies — Beginners Welcome ’ . |
| 13 | It is only two years since the League turned to a three-division format . |
| 14 | Noreen turned to the prompt corner and caught the Stage Manager 's eye . |
| 15 | The air was thick with paranoia as the conversation turned to the perfidious question of appearance money . |
| 16 | A newly-divorced mother turned to a professional counsellor for help . |
| 17 | Yet it was only toward the end of his life — in the Psalmen und christliche Gesang … auff die Melodeyen fugweiss componiert ( Nuremberg , 1607 ) and the Kirchengesäng , Psalmen und geistliche Lieder , auff die gemeinen Melodeyen simpliciter gesetzt ( 1608 ) , which paved the way to his connection with the Protestant court of Dresden that Hassler turned to the Lutheran hymn . |