Example sentences of "and turned [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He arrived at a decision , threw the cigarette away , and turned towards a small depressing row of agricultural cottages . |
| 2 | Thinking of the provocatively slow way she might later take off her shiny red boots , dark hair falling down over her placidly unconcerned face as she bent to remove them , thinking of the longer , slower flow of her otherwise quick young body as she discarded her clothing bit by bit and turned with a sudden smile of submission towards his already rumpled bed , he was also holding in to himself and caressing within himself the glass-cased ideal of a woman — a Princess — who could be worshipped without being touched by bonily clutching fingers , who could transform him without being stickied by any of his bodily fluids . |
| 3 | Lesley had begun to gather up the remaining cups , but at the mention of Charlotte 's name she put down the tray abruptly , and turned with a startled smile . |
| 4 | Marianne settled herself comfortably beside Dane , and turned with an apologetic little smile . |
| 5 | ‘ The idea is for them eventually to be restored completely and turned into a working museum , ’ said Mr Rawlinson . |
| 6 | A group of OSF/Motif suppliers are embarking on a process to keep the graphical user interface ‘ open ’ and allay end-user fears that it could one day be hijacked by an unscrupulous vendor and turned into a proprietary superset of interface characteristics . |
| 7 | ‘ It started as a short project for an article but the whole subject took off and turned into a major research field . ’ |
| 8 | An added precautionary measure is to form Newco specially for the management buy-out rather than acquire a shelf company , because a shelf company 's accounting period may have commenced at a time when its Memorandum of Association does not reflect the relevant purpose test , for example , where a general trading company is purchased and turned into a holding company . |
| 9 | TONIGHT 'S HUMBLE bill at the Pop Club went way beyond all expectations of a fairly good evening and turned into a joyous celebration . |
| 10 | TONIGHT 'S HUMBLE bill at the Pop Club went way beyond all expectations of a fairly good evening and turned into a joyous celebration . |
| 11 | He walked down the quay and turned into a narrow cobbled street , his head bent , and his hands buried in the pockets of his overcoat . |
| 12 | React To Rhythm , Superreal , and Spooky are all a sophisticated hybrid of US and European influences , shot through with a dub sensibility and turned into a driving , expanded hypnodance sound . |
| 13 | FORENSIC experts last night tore apart a house where a teenage girl was allegedly tortured before being doused with petrol and turned into a human torch . |
| 14 | Later it may have declined to a local field access path in the thirteenth century , been re-aligned by enclosure commissioners in the eighteenth century and turned into a dual-carriage trunk road in this century . |
| 15 | She reached the busy Jamaica Road and suddenly felt depressed as she hurried across and turned into a quiet backstreet which led to her home . |
| 16 | He started as a fast bowler and turned into a wonderful offspinner … |
| 17 | However , as I could now see , a vast area behind the shops had been cleared of housing and turned into an enormous shopping centre . |
| 18 | She closed her eyes again , tossed and turned for a long time , then finally managed to get a couple of hours of disturbed sleep . |
| 19 | He admitted , at last , that he needed help , and turned to a twelve-step programme . |
| 20 | They came to the edge of the moors and turned down a steep track towards the beach . |
| 21 | A helicopter flew low over their heads and turned in a tight circle . |
| 22 | Owned and bred in Ireland by Major Eustace Loder ( she was foaled only two years after Sceptre ( see pages 18–19 ) ) and trained at Newmarket by Peter Purcell Gilpin , she made her racecourse debut in the British Dominion Two-Year-Old Plate at Sandown Park in June 1903 and turned in an electrifying performance to win by an official margin of ten lengths — though some put the correct distance at nearly a hundred yards ! |