Example sentences of "turn it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ken Russell took the removal of restraint and stiff-upper-lip repression that American finance had encouraged and turned it into a distinctive aesthetic style . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | By the 1950s , The Ridges was the criminal ghetto of Newcastle , and by the 1970s a costly council manicure job had turned it into a free-fire zone . |
| 4 | In Manchester the handover has allowed it to offload heavy costs such as bridge maintenance , while in Sheffield the running of the tram system into British Midland 's station has turned it into a major transport terminus , which includes buses . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In many respects , the moral problems that America has have turned it into a street of shame . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If Knightshayes had been a really fine Victorian garden , you 'd have had to keep it as it was , but we 've turned it into a twentieth-century garden and that 's what the Trust has taken . |
| 9 | The château was empty , almost derelict , and they have turned it into a small hotel and restaurant . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's gone now , they 've turned it into a boutique . |
| 11 | would have turned it into a distinct party separate from the Parliamentary Labour Party of which it formed nearly a halt Candidates were asked to avoid " commitments with other organisations of such a nature as to militate against their effectiveness as ILP Members of Parliament " . |
| 12 | Yes , it 's not , they 've turned it into a total university trained job erm , people have n't given award . |
| 13 | The wind had turned it into an octopus and the old lady muttered , ‘ Oh dear , oh lord , oh good heavens , what a nuisance . ’ |
| 14 | So clueless and incompetent , so capable of mismanagement that it has turned it into an art form . ’ |
| 15 | Six years later Murphy had turned it into the biggest agency in Scotland , overtaking Barkers , traditionally the market leader , and bought it out ( the implicit threat being that he would start up on his own ) for £100,000 . |
| 16 | Can you hold it here so it 's security keys and I have n't turned it round the other way . |
| 17 | Getting itself involved in access so deeply has turned it from a benign , vaguely representative organisation into one whose role is increasingly to police the activities of climbing and climbers . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Her eyes had opened wide in wonder , and the light entered their long-lashed blackness and turned it to a dusky , flecked gold . |
| 20 | Having said that , he self-consciously dropped his gaze from her disappointed eyes and turned it to the multi-patterned carpet . |
| 21 | Donald McCulloch grinned with pleasure and then turned it into a look of complicity for the younger men . |
| 22 | He never lost sight of the religious nature of his subject , and never turned it into a boring desert . |
| 23 | They might have had one if Bill could have explained his idea because that 's exactly what Harry Nilsson later did with the song , turned it into a big ballad and scored a number one hit with it . |
| 24 | Deracinated urban youths have built upon this uncompromisingly physical attitude to games and turned it into a different , more aggressive , and organized subculture . |
| 25 | An eerie , green glow in the sky behind the tower turned it into a ghostly galleon on a leaden sea ; Claro itself , a crazy house , leaning this way and bulging that . |
| 26 | The relentlessly lumbering movie machine has taken a truly extreme , hallucinatory book about oppression and obedience , juiced it up with some patronising love interest and turned it into a standard ‘ women 's issues ’ film : sanitised , regulated and pointless . |
| 27 | Although it has none of your words on it , nor no other mark of you , I have by slow degrees and probably much self-deception turned it into a love letter from you . |
| 28 | Maybe he thinks we might have improved it a little , even turned it into a bestseller . |
| 29 | Mendes rescued a Chichester revival of London Assurance at short notice and turned it into a hit . |
| 30 | They employed hundreds of workers who had previously known lace-making as a domestic craft , and turned it into a mass-production industry which brought an end to cottage lace-making here and in the villages of Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire . |