Example sentences of "[verb] to turn the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He threatened to quit the hit series when writers tried to turn the gentle fireman-turned-'tec into a trendy , big-time operator involved with glamour girls and car chases : ‘ It just was n't on , ’ said Michael , back on Tuesday ( ITV , 9pm ) for a seventh Boon series , in a 13-week run . |
| 2 | The British ‘ aristocracy of labour ’ , a stratum peculiar to that country where the class of independent small producers , shopkeepers , etc. , was relatively insignificant , as was the lower middle class of white-collar workers and minor bureaucrats , helped to turn the Liberal Party into a party with genuine mass appeal . |
| 3 | One faction , called the Democratic Platform , wants to turn the Communist party into a social democratic one . |
| 4 | The organisation wants to turn the disused school into a community centre offering religious , educational and leisure facilities . |
| 5 | Plants now began to turn the flying skills of the insects to their own advantage . |
| 6 | Lou Reed 's critical rehabilitation is threatening to turn the old sourpuss into rock ‘ n ’ roll 's first Professor of Literature . |
| 7 | If he ever decided to turn the full wattage of his charm on a woman , she thought , distractedly folding some of her clothes into neat piles , he 'd be quite irresistible . |
| 8 | Labour sought to turn the general election into a referendum on the NHS , asking voters for a mandate to reverse the changes . |
| 9 | I 've learned to turn the other cheek in a manner that would make Christian proud . |
| 10 | The remaining yeast continues to turn the residual sugars into alcohol and also helps to purge the beer of the rough after-tastes created by fermentation . |
| 11 | DC Comics plan to turn the Caped Crusader into a drunken buffoon . |
| 12 | According to the version of the letter published in Panorama , owned by socialist media baron Silvio Berlusconi , Togliatti , who spent much of the Second World War in Moscow , had expressed the view that the deaths of the prisoners would help to turn the Italian people against fascism . |
| 13 | I had been the first Chairman of Wells-Next-The-Sea , Town Council , but two or three years afterwards , we decided to turn , er , the old cinema , they wanted to turn the old cinema into a Dance Hall . |