Example sentences of "[noun sg] have turned [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As our economy has declined as our recession has turned to a slump increasingly it is the low-paid , the sick , the disabled and the unemployed who have been forced to pick up the tab for the Tory policy failure . |
| 2 | In the country , the underlying tide of opinion is favourable to Labour : in six months , Gallup 's ‘ fitness to govern ’ test has turned from a negative to a positive while , remarkably , two-thirds of respondents believe they would be better off under Labour . |
| 3 | The middle class revolt has turned to a whimper . |
| 4 | Her heart went out to Antoinette Gebrec , as yet happily ignorant of the fate of her son , and to Philippe Bonard , whose long-cherished dream had turned to a nightmare , while the man they both loved was lying in a broken , bloody heap at the foot of the cliff . |
| 5 | They are in charge of world-famous clubs , but the job has turned into a nightmare for the pair of them . |
| 6 | But the whole music business has turned into a service industry , and it 's ‘ give the people what they want ’ . |
| 7 | The sneer had turned into a lump in his throat . |
| 8 | The guide took his place at centre stern and , after the raft had turned in a circle to adjust itself to the current , the paddling rhythm set in to send it down-river towards the white foam that could be seen rising between the distant boulders . |
| 9 | Since I married again , I have had more children , but my second wife has turned into a shadow . ’ |
| 10 | Bank Assistants were told there was room at the top , but this mirage has turned into a desert of empty dry promises , sun bleached skeletons of the fallen victims and descending spirals of the vultures , vigilant for the weak . |
| 11 | She felt as if her heart had turned into a fist and was trying to punch its way out of her chest . |
| 12 | You 're going to spend the next few months hanging over them with your heart thumping in case they 've stopped breathing and the next few years after that stopping them committing suicide because a perfectly ordinary house has turned into a minefield of electricity and stairs and windows and boiling kettles . |