Example sentences of "[v-ing] to turn [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had an old air-raid shelter , partly dug into the ground because of the slope : there was a load of stones on top , waiting to turn the shelter into an apple store disguised as a rockery , and when Mrs Wilson saw this she stood for a long time looking at the hump in the ground and the pile of stones . |
| 2 | Rohmer was not going to turn a gun on him again , and he was not going to allow this to happen . |
| 3 | I 'm going to turn the key on Aladdin 's cave . |
| 4 | ‘ I decided it was time to say goodbye , but before I could give notice Sam Hall , the Benskin 's area manager , phoned me to say the company was going to turn the Harrow into a managed house . |
| 5 | The private farmers pay more for everything than the collectives , labour materials , taxes , yet they 're beginning to turn a profit from the soil . |
| 6 | The fat cook pushed him out of the way , coming to turn a pan of potatoes roasting under spitted beef . |
| 7 | The High Authority met for the first time in the autumn of 1952 , and immediately set about trying to turn the principles of the Treaty of Paris into practical results . |
| 8 | The defence minister , General Hector Gramajo , is trying to turn the army into a professional force . |
| 9 | Mike sighed and gave up , for the moment at least , trying to turn the conversation into channels other than work . |
| 10 | But there is a certain piquancy in Kingfisher now trying to turn the tables on a company from whose clutches its escaped by a whisker only three years ago . |
| 11 | What else was plain , though , was that she had wasted her time in trying to turn the tables on Naylor Massingham by hinting that , jobless , she might set up home with Travis . |
| 12 | The Peking Daily , organ of the city 's ultra-conservative party organisation , accused the disgraced former leader of trying to turn the party into little more than a ‘ social club ’ shorn of power . |
| 13 | The FBI — which handles counterintelligence matters — is trying to turn the influx of Soviet emigres to its advantage , however , and , according to The New York Times , the agency hopes to reap a potential intelligence bonanza once double agents have been weeded out . |
| 14 | It seemed to me he was trying to turn an apple into an orange or an aeroplane into a horse . ’ |
| 15 | It is as rude as spitting to turn the soles of your feet toward anyone , so stretching your legs in front of you becomes nearly impossible . |
| 16 | Nor was he planning to turn the BBC into a ‘ publisher ’ rather than a maker of programmes . |