Example sentences of "to turn himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Place and spirit of place is the inspiration of more poetry than we nowadays like to admit ; and to do that poetry justice , the critic needs to turn himself into a tourist . |
| 2 | Here it is , he said and pulled out a bottle of foul-looking medicine that could well have been the very stuff that Dr Jekyll used to turn himself into Mr Hyde . |
| 3 | A God had the power to turn himself into whoever or whatever he defeated or ate , so Apollo could now assume the form of a dolphin . |
| 4 | The last thing he wanted was to turn himself into a do-gooder , but he realized very quickly that most of the volunteers were genuinely and sincerely opening their hearts and homes . |
| 5 | Vincent would soon see the struggle to turn himself into what he called a Peasant painter as his prime aim . |
| 6 | Vincent strained every nerve to turn himself into a draughtsman acceptable to the illustrated papers , and the strain showed . |
| 7 | Its leader , a Colonel Seymour , was charged with committing common assault on Charles Eyres , the leader of the Croydon branch of the organization , after a dispute in which Eyres claimed that Seymour had misappropriated funds and altered the constitution to turn himself into a virtual dictator ; this led to Seymour drawing a sword and pointing an unlicensed gun at Eyres . |
| 8 | Thereafter he became a missionary of heathen Africa , wrote a seminal alchemical text called the Clavicula , and was reputed to turn himself into a red cock when occasion demanded . |
| 9 | Belgion , a man who seemed to be equipped with a steam-boiler instead of a body , had criticized a remark of Eliot 's in After Strange Gods , namely that in order to study with thoroughness Hindu and Buddhist thought and the Sanskrit and Pali languages in which they were expounded , he would have been obliged to turn himself into an oriental . |
| 10 | I just wish he had n't felt a pressing need to turn himself into some sort of Hollywood-director clone for this production . |