Example sentences of "turned a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ross Group turned a half-year profit of £150,000 into a loss of £220,000 , underlining the task which faces the new management . |
| 2 | The whole hand turned a deep shade of scarlet , the flesh itself heating up . |
| 3 | Dr Kumar turned a 2,000 deficit into a near 2,000 majority . |
| 4 | He turned a dry look on me . |
| 5 | She turned a weary face to him . |
| 6 | This was the normal relaxation of a king 's leisure : Henry I of Germany was so keen a huntsman that he ‘ would take forty or more wild beasts in a day ’ ; the Norman kings turned a substantial proportion of their kingdom into game preserves ; hunting was the natural sport of a militant aristocracy , venting on animals the energy and spleen left over from fighting their own kind . |
| 7 | She turned a stricken glance on Peter . |
| 8 | Then the index fell by almost 20 points below Monday 's close after Wall Street turned a tentative opening into a 25 point slump . |
| 9 | Ann turned a laughing face to me . |
| 10 | Dinah turned a radiant smile on him . |
| 11 | Back in the study , Flora turned a beseeching face upon Anna . |
| 12 | Luke turned a venomous face to him . |
| 13 | At the end , between lengthy visits to Walter Reed Hospital in Washington and crippled with arthritis as a result of a youthful bicycle accident , he turned a deaf ear to opposition calls to resign after losing his majority . |
| 14 | She would n't be keeping the Law if she turned a deaf ear to the call or ran away from it . |
| 15 | The owners turned a deaf ear to such an expensive demand . |
| 16 | He refused to promise anything , just as he turned a deaf ear to their prayers for his ‘ resignation ’ . |
| 17 | Next day , when the mob was destroying the Catholic chapel in Moorfields , he apparently turned a deaf ear to requests for orders from the soldiers and the fire officers in attendance ; and when the rioters ' work was done he uttered the mildest of rebukes : ‘ That 's pretty well , gentlemen , for one day ; I hope you will now go to your own homes . ’ |
| 18 | Certainly II Cnut 54.1 , which forbids the keeping of a woman in addition to a wife , sits ill with the king 's own relationship with Ælfgifu of Northampton , and suggests that he occasionally turned a deaf ear to Wulfstan 's entreaties ; but this does not necessarily mean that he lacked interest in the archbishop 's work . |
| 19 | And the Westminster North constituency of Stormont Law and Order Minister Sir John Wheeler is among those which turned a deaf ear to the fund-raising targets set by party chiefs . |
| 20 | When 20,000 travellers invaded Castlemorton Common last May , it turned a picturesque part of Worcestershire into a shanty town . |
| 21 | He bewildered his audience for a moment , and then moved them , when he suddenly turned a political invective about government 's neglect of the environment into a lament that one of the sad losses was going to be the poetry of the countryside , the pastorals of a Vergil or a Theocritus . |
| 22 | Dana stared after him for a moment , then turned a malevolent glare on Claudia . |
| 23 | Farquhar , at his shoulder , turned a cynical eye on all this worthy , pious mildness , and wondered to himself how long it would last . |
| 24 | At that point , he grinned at Cassie quite wickedly , and her heart promptly turned a complete somersault inside her chest . |
| 25 | Irina seemed to be interested in the question and turned a serious face toward Alison . |
| 26 | She turned a naked somersault in his lap , bouncing lightly off the cabin wall to return slowly feet first , straddling him , locking them together . |
| 27 | We met when I was researching some material on community care , and her great good humour and flawless memory for fascinating aspects of social history turned a one-off interview into an intermittently enjoyed friendship . |
| 28 | ‘ She 's no niece o'mine , ’ grumbled Jack , shrugging helplessly when his daughter turned a horrified look on him . |
| 29 | When the carts had moved on Joseph turned a horrified face to his brother . |
| 30 | Stigwood turned a local scene into an international sensation , launched John Travolta as a box office star and cult hero and masterminded the biggest-selling soundtrack album of all time with a movie that encapsulated the energy and release of the disco age . |