Example sentences of "[noun pl] turned [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ensuing exchange over the months turned the whole cast of Balzac 's Comédie Humaine into Katherine 's familiars and gave her an awareness of greed and ambition , love and betrayal far beyond her years . |
| 2 | His inability to answer her queries turned a suspicious woman into a deeply apprehensive one . |
| 3 | Behind me , the candle I had so carefully placed in the dry straw in the garret of Le Coq d'Or kindled into life and the flames turned the evil tavern into a blazing inferno . |
| 4 | After the Western allies turned the western part of Germany into a sovereign state , the Soviets followed suit and the German Democratic Republic was founded on 7 October 1949 . |
| 5 | The brilliance of its colours turned the remembered garden outside into monochrome . |
| 6 | It is perhaps not to be wondered that when the clouds of war then appeared , those in high places turned a speculative eye on this , the greatest privately-owned railway organisation in the world , with facilities and space , equipped in a wide range , from precision tools to mighty hammers , forges , foundries , and a tradition of skilled craftsmanship grafted to modern organisational and administrative ability , for a possible source of production of the sinews of war . |
| 7 | The owners turned a deaf ear to such an expensive demand . |
| 8 | Dublin had feared that up to £6 billion in EC aid could be lost if pro-life campaigners turned the forthcoming referendum seeking approval for the Maastricht Treaty into a plebiscite on abortion . |
| 9 | As Tabitha was trying to get past a couple of coked-up Thrants in expensive shakos and boiled leather , one of the Palernians turned a clumsy somersault , and one of the others pushed her into the canal . |
| 10 | This was the normal relaxation of a king 's leisure : Henry I of Germany was so keen a huntsman that he ‘ would take forty or more wild beasts in a day ’ ; the Norman kings turned a substantial proportion of their kingdom into game preserves ; hunting was the natural sport of a militant aristocracy , venting on animals the energy and spleen left over from fighting their own kind . |
| 11 | Between 18 or so delicious courses , as our hosts turned the revolving centre of the table to urge more of this dish or that , compliments were tossed back and forth . |
| 12 | Using the Temple as a short cut was also forbidden by Jewish Law and yet the priests turned a blind eye to it because it brought more trade into the Temple . |
| 13 | EVIL robbers turned a terrified bank guard into a human bomb and threatened to blow him up before stealing £23 million in cash . |
| 14 | EVIL robbers turned a terrified bank guard into a human bomb and threatened to blow him up before stealing £23 million in cash . |
| 15 | Sendei turned the final corner and emerged into a small circular space . |
| 16 | Its tyres turned the thin coating of snow into glistening mud . |