Example sentences of "turned to a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what had promised to be a happy greeting turned to a strained departure — tonight Adisa was taken onto hospital although she 's since been allowed to leave and join other refugees in Northampton . |
| 2 | With a gasp that turned to a shuddering sigh , she felt their flesh merge . |
| 3 | For L'Orimonte ( 1650 ) he turned to a new librettist , Nicolo Minato , whose texts differentiated more clearly between passages for dramatic/recitative and those for lyrical/aria treatment , as in very early opera . |
| 4 | He turned to a tall woman , who was standing in the corner . |
| 5 | For pleasure and stimulation in this zone of transition many people turned to a criminal way of life . |
| 6 | He admitted , at last , that he needed help , and turned to a twelve-step programme . |
| 7 | I turned to a medium natural to me when dealing with emotional occasions — versifying . |
| 8 | And it turned to a great marsh . |
| 9 | He turned to a small cabinet mounted high on the kitchen wall , and in a moment had presented her with a glass of water and two white capsules that she swallowed obediently and not without relief . |
| 10 | He turned to a small table by the door , struck a match to light the oil-lamp , and then carefully adjusted it , making me wait for an answer . |
| 11 | The Prince did n't even wait for an answer but turned to a small table beside him , slopped two goblets full of wine , rose and thrust them at his unwanted guests . |
| 12 | A newly-divorced mother turned to a professional counsellor for help . |
| 13 | In reaction it turned to a whole gamut of strategies advocated by advisory committees and penal reform groups in an attempt to counter and check the rising tide of custodial sentences . |
| 14 | The bright 21-year-old New York University un-dergraduate turned to a secret life of vice after answering a newspaper advertisement for ‘ Fun-loving Ladies — Beginners Welcome ’ . |
| 15 | A neglected cold turned to a bad fever and I was forced to stay behind in Newcastle , in hospital . |
| 16 | It is only two years since the League turned to a three-division format . |
| 17 | For while Schopenhauer gave music a gratifyingly important role within his scheme of things , the music on which he based his theories was primarily the formally respectable tradition that he saw represented in Haydn and Mozart ; and the importance he gave to music turned to a large extent on its supposed capacity to foster the right — dispassionate and otherworldly — response . |
| 18 | From behind her the baby 's howl turned to a high-pitched whine , like Concorde warming up . |
| 19 | To find the answer , she turned to a published league table of the world 's worst weeds . |
| 20 | Officers from the child protection team and social services were called in after the girl turned to an elderly neighbour for help , Scotland Yard said . |
| 21 | So he turned to an aged relative for assistance : |
| 22 | Like many others , he turned to an experimental approach as a means of transcending the limitations of traditional ‘ Darwinism ’ . |