Example sentences of "turn [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unpretentious yet beautiful orange brick and pantiled watermills , trout farms and farmhouses rest peacefully in isolated spots and cosy little hamlets appear unexpectedly as one turns of a bend of a woldland way . |
| 2 | This is followed by a brief outline of the continental legal system to which critics have turned for a solution to our problems . |
| 3 | Comrades were unlucky not to score in the 11th minute , Colin Crawford picking out Eddie Patterson whose snap shot was turned for a corner by Mark Gillespie , in for the dropped Stephen Eachus . |
| 4 | Mr and Mrs Bumble walked up the main street of the town , then turned towards a group of ruined old houses next to the river . |
| 5 | The Body & Face Place franchise operation , for instance , has turned into a crematorium for the business ambitions of many franchisees . |
| 6 | Stalking stags is turned into a sport as an economic necessity as much as anything else . |
| 7 | The Temple of Yahwe was turned into a temple of Zeus Olympios , the inhabitants of Jerusalem were called Antiochenes and the mysterious Acra , the fortress , was occupied by a Syrian garrison : traditional Jewish practices , such as circumcision and the observance of the Sabbath , were prohibited . |
| 8 | She was represented as a nice girl temporarily turned into a witch by strange creatures ( including , in Tanning 's designs , men described as Owl Heads and Bald Heads ) who interrupt a rendezvous with her lover in a mysterious castle . |
| 9 | In a sense the normal child was turned into a problem by the process of evacuation . |
| 10 | Looking for peace and solitude , he bought a cottage in a small Bedfordshire village and had a garage turned into a bungalow for his beloved grandmother . |
| 11 | He hated the vulgarity of showing off the delegates as though they were exhibits , and the insincerity of pretending that platitudes were pronouncements of world-shaking import , and the feeling that he came a long way to greet fellow-Christians and found himself turned into a ham-actor on a second-rate stage . |
| 12 | In the delightful garden there is a small lake which is being turned into a watergarden with unusual waterside plants . |
| 13 | The building has been the subject of controversy ever since locals were told that it was to be turned into a clinic for twenty six convicted sex offenders . |
| 14 | When Beirut , the capital of Middle Eastern intrigue , was turned into a battleground in 1975 by the Lebanese civil war , the entire international espionage community moved out lock , stock and barrel to Nicosia . |
| 15 | ‘ You know Angel House is being turned into a Museum of the Theatre ? ’ |
| 16 | The expansion of the Virgin operation , the sharp influx of profits ( the loss of £900,000 reported at the beginning of 1981 had been turned into a profit of £1.5m by the beginning of 1982 ) , and the more aggressive attitude of performers to selling themselves had all put Virgin in a more competitive milieu and frame of mind . |
| 17 | Not only has the house been turned into a nursery for the children of staff , but the pupils — all male in this comprehensive-turned-direct grant school — help look after the babies . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | His ship was turned into a minesweeper in the war , and he went down with her off the east coast . |
| 20 | Hitler 's speech on 20 July after the attempt on his life was turned into a criticism of him and the regime . |
| 21 | They are in charge of world-famous clubs , but the job has turned into a nightmare for the pair of them . |
| 22 | Perhaps today it should be turned into a couplet with the second line being ‘ Half your pension 's too much to pay ! ’ |
| 23 | It is almost titualistic that parade is turned into a celebration of the communal-like bonds of the section . |
| 24 | The report singled out three recent incidents : a demonstration in Kishinev ( the capital ) on Jan. 8 , when a funeral procession for a Moldavian youth who had died in suspicious circumstances had turned into a rally by up to 10,000 people protesting against Soviet and communist rule , and fights had ensued between rival gangs of Moldavian and Russian youths ; a picket of the district Moldavian CP committee building in the town of Chadyr Lunga by members of the Gagauz minority demanding creation of their own autonomous republic ; and a referendum on Jan. 28 called by the city soviet in Tiraspol , Moldavia 's second largest city , in which the predominantly Russian population had voted overwhelmingly ( over 96 per cent of a 92 per cent poll ) to declare greater autonomy for the Tiraspol district and to support the possible declaration of Tiraspol and neighbouring Russian-populated towns as an autonomous republic ( Tiraspol had been one of the main centres of strikes by Moldavia 's Russian and Ukrainian population in August-September 1989 against greater Moldavian language rights — see pp. 36855 ; 36898 ) . |
| 25 | But even back then in that golden age for the company , there were early forerunners of the devastating failures that have turned into a way of dismal life from the dawn of the 1980s . |
| 26 | She has turned into a champion of the underdog , gone out on a limb to support unglamorous causes like AIDS victims , drug abusers and the mentally handicapped . |
| 27 | I mean it 's turned into a bit of a joke now really |
| 28 | And this recession that we 've been coming out of for so many years now it 's I mean it 's just turned into a bit of a joke ! |
| 29 | This , diverted , now turned into a recital about every distant relative Neil Cochrane possessed , all of whom , apparently , had only one wish — to see him back in polite society again . |
| 30 | We may sec one and the same object changing in shape so as to be transformed into something different — as the baby that Alice was holding gradually turned into a pig before her eyes . |