Example sentences of "turn to [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | MIDAS TOUCH Before the collapse of Canary Wharf ( right ) , everything turned to gold for Albert , left , and Paul Reichmann |
| 2 | He turned to Shamlou for sympathy . |
| 3 | Jinkwa turned to Fakrid for instructions . |
| 4 | It turned to federalism for the solution ; a solution in keeping with its history . |
| 5 | In her despair and grief Mrs McDermott also turned to alcohol for relief . |
| 6 | During that period she turned to alcohol for comfort . |
| 7 | GLUM despondency turned to jubilation for Instonians captain Johnny Black at Shane Park last night . |
| 8 | When it appeared enthusiasm for the fantasy turned to indifference for the real thing . |
| 9 | Today , with children turning to television for effortless , alternative entertainment , a distressing and accelerating trend in the teaching of reading is to sugar-coat the pill . |
| 10 | STORAGETEK TURNS TO MATSUSHITA FOR HELICAL SCAN |
| 11 | NOW SIEMENS NIXDORF TURNS TO HP FOR LICENCE TO SOFTBENCH |
| 12 | An Oxfordshire consultant has told how specialist hospitals have to turn to charity for funds because the government does n't provide enough money . |
| 13 | Once a worry-eater — usually a woman — learns to become more aware of herself and her emotions in the way shown in part II , she will be more able to control her reactions to stress and anxiety and less likely to turn to food for comfort . |
| 14 | A rising standard of living may have weakened the tendency to turn to religion for explanation or comfort . |
| 15 | Perhaps worst of all , there are those stressful situations where one is accustomed to turn to tobacco for support . |
| 16 | If we turn to literature for corroboration , the story is the same ; the great Victorian novelists , such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot , were middle-class authors , writing for middle-class readers . |
| 17 | It is this time-depth that will interest us in chapter 5 , in which we turn to evidence for vernacular variation in earlier English . |
| 18 | Now we are charging blindly down the same path , while families break up and children turn to hooliganism for want of a mother 's essentially female care . |
| 19 | Is it because one does not turn to art for comfort ? |
| 20 | It 's hardly surprising that you would turn to food for comfort under these circumstances . |