Example sentences of "turned [prep] stone " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once every 100 years they resume their human shapes and renew their embraces ; anyone who sees them then is turned to stone . |
| 2 | The tradition that stone circles and standing stones are human beings who have been turned to stone because of some misdemeanour is widespread and seems to point to some memory of the ritual use of these sites in ancient times . |
| 3 | It seems from folklore that these involved dancing with music through the night , often on the Sabbath , and the legends about being turned to stone imply disapproval of the old pagan religion which kept up these practices . |
| 4 | Breeze sat as if she had been turned to stone . |
| 5 | Nicholas felt as if turned to stone . |
| 6 | Medusa was the Queen and so hideous was her face that anyone who looked upon it was turned to stone . |
| 7 | You can pile on the guilt but my heart has turned to stone . |
| 8 | Although the smaller Saxon churches were usually wooden and have not survived it was not long before more ambitious priests and their patrons turned to stone buildings . |
| 9 | Find a heart that 's turned to stone — |
| 10 | Eventually they are turned to stone , but they retain not only the outward shape that they had in life , albeit sometimes distorted , but on occasion even their detailed cellular structure is preserved so that you can look at sections of them through the microscope and plot the shape of the blood vessels and the nerves that once surrounded them . |
| 11 | No a f a fossil is something that 's been turned to stone in the ground . |
| 12 | But that 's a a fossil is anything that 's turned to stone . |
| 13 | She was astonished and sat as though turned to stone , her fingers thrust through the opening of his unbuttoned trousers . |
| 14 | The mist moved on , and each man and eagle there was turned to stone and raised up . |
| 15 | She looked at her husband hopefully , expecting to find an answering smile on his face but he remained as he was , sunk back among the cushions of the armchair , as if turned to stone . |
| 16 | IN THE horrified hush that followed , Prior Robert , guiding hand still uplifted and stricken motionless , was momentarily turned to stone , his face a mask of utter incredulity . |
| 17 | Roman had turned to stone above her , his dark face sheened with sweat . |
| 18 | The village might be gone , or dead , or all the inhabitants turned to stone like the houses . |
| 19 | Isabel stood as if turned to stone , her face still averted . |
| 20 | He did n't move , but he was unnaturally still , as if turned to stone . |
| 21 | Juliet sat as if turned to stone . |
| 22 | And she goes you just go in there and our plate gets turned to stone . |