Example sentences of "turn [pron] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modernization eventually takes away children 's ability to earn and turns them into a cost as they need education to earn as adults . |
| 2 | Highlights include ‘ Allergy plight of nice-girl Nicky — ‘ one sip of vodka turns me into a sex maniac ’ ’ ( News of the World magazine ) and ‘ Women could be turned on by a chunk of cheddar ’ ( People ) . |
| 3 | But when I think about how I feel for you , it turns me into a Hercules and I feel I can conquer the world . ’ |
| 4 | JAMES THURBER 'S short story , ‘ The Catbird Seat ’ , tells of mild-mannered Mr Martin , who deliberately turns himself into a boor for one evening . |
| 5 | In relation to the Irish worker , he feels himself a member of the ruling nation and so turns himself into a tool of the aristocrats and capitalists of his country against Ireland , thus strengthening their domination over himself . |
| 6 | They started as self-defence systems , but more than 2,000 years of refinement have turned them into a way of life . |
| 7 | ‘ All that health food 's turned you into a zombie . ’ |
| 8 | A hospital has turned itself into a charity to prevent the Health Authority closing it down . |
| 9 | The rains have turned everything into a morass . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ His addiction has turned him into a cheat and a liar ’ |
| 11 | I ca n't believe you 've persuaded Sharpe to attend , or have you turned him into a dancing man ? ’ |
| 12 | If all her rough times had turned her into a pickpocket , at least they had n't defeated her . |
| 13 | Fa 's intelligence might in any circumstances have turned her into a leader , and this too would have broken their social convention : " " " A man for pictures . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's gone now , they 've turned it into a boutique . |
| 15 | Aviemore , the Highland village on the fringe of the Cairngorms , was planned as a tasteful , Alpine-style centre , but garish commercial developments have turned it into a dump . |
| 16 | One such building in the suburb of Karlshorst was a Stasi training centre less than a year ago , and has now been handed over to local artists , who have turned it into a Kunst Haus ( art house ) and bar . |
| 17 | In many respects , the moral problems that America has have turned it into a street of shame . |
| 18 | The assembly was dissolved in 1986 because the remaining Protestant members had turned it into a forum for opposing the Anglo-Irish Agreement signed in November 1985 . |
| 19 | They 've turned it from a Council that was determined to tackle the social deprivation in this city , was determined to tackle the disadvantaged , such as racial disadvantaged , by supporting the C T C , which gives a unique opportunity to Asian children in this city for education . |
| 20 | I 've turned mine into a fortress . |
| 21 | This was won by Ruby Lansley who had turned hers into a caterpillar . |
| 22 | It could have turned us into a cinder . |
| 23 | They have whetted a lust for sensationalism that has turned us into a nation of accident watchers . |
| 24 | For the first year or so it turns you into a kind of psychopathic animal and then suddenly , like a butterfly emerging from the pupa , you sprout wings , your heart opens , you become … charming . |
| 25 | It does n't toughen you up , it just turns you into a bag of nerves basically . |
| 26 | Any moment now , Judi would be turning them into a Jury , appealing for their verdict on the Nielsen family . |
| 27 | Yet , apart from these and a couple of stagings of The Tempest , choreographers have tended to present Shakespeare only in one act form , at best condensing the great poetic dramas into intense and intimate character studies at worst , turning them into a slide show of cliched vignettes . |
| 28 | Quinn 's line of thought can be traced back to earlier works such as those of Lindblom ( 1959 ) and Wrapp ( 1967 ) , but he took these general ideas and turned them into a framework for observing organization behaviour and then into practical recommendations for the chief executive who is responsible for strategic change . |
| 29 | As summer drew on , the ocean of green became darker and darker until the first fires of autumn caught the leaves and turned them into a patchwork of burnished copper and gold leaving the black of the yews standing out once more . |
| 30 | Clifford turned me into a monster |