Example sentences of "turned it into [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mendes rescued a Chichester revival of London Assurance at short notice and turned it into a hit . |
| 2 | Erm yeah , Romeo and Juliet was not completely his idea , it came from a sort of long poem which he read about two lovers and then he turned it into a play . |
| 3 | This leaflet took an easily accessible matter ( not too academic or removed from peoples ' everyday lives ) and turned it into a hook for recruitment . |
| 4 | This leaflet took an easily accessible matter ( not too academic or removed from peoples ' everyday lives ) and turned it into a hook for recruitment . |
| 5 | Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais , who had written one of Crawford 's films , The Jokers , now turned it into a musical , with a score by John Barry and lyrics by Don Black , who had both written the music for the film Alice 's Adventures in Wonderland . |
| 6 | He is not some hack student politician who has commandeered a pressure group and turned it into a vehicle for self-advertisement , his eyes trained all the while on a safe Tory seat . |
| 7 | Although it has none of your words on it , nor no other mark of you , I have by slow degrees and probably much self-deception turned it into a love letter from you . |
| 8 | You 're talking and Paul 's talking and I actually did something with it , I actually turned it into a song . |
| 9 | He leased a field in the area and turned it into a cricket ground . |
| 10 | They employed hundreds of workers who had previously known lace-making as a domestic craft , and turned it into a mass-production industry which brought an end to cottage lace-making here and in the villages of Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire . |
| 11 | In 1940 Lane revived New Writing , retaining Lehmann as its editor , and turned it into a paperback . |
| 12 | Donald McCulloch grinned with pleasure and then turned it into a look of complicity for the younger men . |
| 13 | Its huge success grated even more , especially as it had been a Labour paper until Murdoch had bought it and turned it into a cornerstone of his international media empire . |
| 14 | To this end , Malc and I rented a shop in a local precinct and turned it into a café . |
| 15 | John always said that they spent more money restoring the facade than they ever spent on the thousands of workers who worked inside the plant , but then when it closed they could n't knock it down , so they turned it into a superstore . |
| 16 | ‘ John Smith 's speech turned it into a matter of confidence and the whole issue became confused . |
| 17 | Protestant for years when Roman Catholics were proscribed , then some Victorian industrialist who was a religious crank turned it into a hostel for people off the street . |
| 18 | They turned it into a fortress after the third time when most of their son 's possessions were taken . |
| 19 | Maybe he thinks we might have improved it a little , even turned it into a bestseller . |
| 20 | She liked it for its peace , its sedateness , except , of course , on the days its Hippie Market turned it into a riot of colour and bustle , attracting holiday-makers from all over the island . |
| 21 | If you turned it into a business , you could keep six maids and gardeners if you wanted and write them off against the pigs . |
| 22 | It was Pete who turned it into a car . ’ |
| 23 | Brand new — in first class condition it must have cost many times that to make , being in heavy tin and having a lid with collapsible handle that turned it into a frying pan . |
| 24 | that the Germans had tidied it up a bit and turned it into a garden . |
| 25 | He had taken his sonnet to Rodge at Red Giant and turned it into an ode . |
| 26 | Lord Justice Butler-Sloss said that while still working for others , they bought a property and turned it into an hotel , with Mrs Gojkovic working hard alongside her husband . |
| 27 | Faced with this united German front , Napoleon III realized that for him nothing of substance was likely to emerge from the meeting and so he turned it into an exercise in public relations . |
| 28 | They failed to appreciate the fact that the G'bai turned it into an island . |
| 29 | Almost a hundred years later , the great American dramatist Thornton Wilder turned it into The Merchant of Yonkers and later revised it , changing the name to The Matchmaker . |