Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] turned [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ross Group turned a half-year profit of £150,000 into a loss of £220,000 , underlining the task which faces the new management . |
| 2 | Then the index fell by almost 20 points below Monday 's close after Wall Street turned a tentative opening into a 25 point slump . |
| 3 | The SDP won an extraordinary by-election success at Crosby in Liverpool in November 1981 , when Shirley Williams turned a Tory majority of 19,000 into an SDP majority of 5,000 . |
| 4 | Doctor McCann turned an exasperated face away and addressed himself to Peg . |
| 5 | Frau Nordern turned a marmoreal face , and when she spoke her voice was as cold as her face . |
| 6 | Herr Nordern gave her a ghastly , feeble grin , as if asking for remission , but Frau Nordern turned a cold face away , showing only an upright back and stiff neck which in their rigidity seemed to symbolise the rectitude of all the generations of the Houses of von Bromberg and von Ritter . |