Example sentences of "turning it [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it 's it 's like you trying to say you 're gon na boil a pan of potatoes and you 've got ta keep turning it off every two minutes , cos it 'll be getting too hot ! |
| 2 | He slowed the car , turning it off the main road down a narrow lane that led to the river before bringing it to a halt and cutting the engine . |
| 3 | UNEP , it is worth recalling , was born out of the 1972 Stockholm conference ; the 1992 anniversary conference will be the time to consider turning it into a full-blown UN agency with more funds at its disposal . |
| 4 | McDonald outlines it thus : ‘ A : find the best artists you can ; B : keep them in a creative mood so that they make the best records they can , and C : maximise the sales of the records everywhere without turning it into a real form of drudgery for them . ’ |
| 5 | As a result , the nineteenth-century approaches had misconceived the nature of God 's Word itself , turning it into a spiritual ideal , a heroic example , or a set of ethical norms , and interpreted Jesus accordingly , instead of recognising in him the perennially contemporary event of the encounter of time with eternity , the intersection of the finite by the infinite , by which everything human and creaturely is contradicted in its self-enclosedness and opened up to the reality of God . |
| 6 | After a while , though , dismissing her memories , Ruth began to like it ; the sun was behind the mist , turning it into a glimmery silver haze ; and at least it was a different sort of weather . |
| 7 | Even the simplest VAT eats up 2–4% of its revenues in administrative costs ; the BTU tax may eat up as much as 10–20% , turning it into a full-employment programme for bureaucrats . |
| 8 | When this happens , some people respond by pouring paraffin over that fire , turning it into a blazing inferno ( i.e. panicking , hyperventilating , catastrophizing , avoiding , etc. ) , while others sensibly dampen down the blaze with a wet blanket ( i.e. relaxing , thinking positively , goal planning , problem solving , and self assertion ) . |
| 9 | He largely reshaped this family business , rescuing it from near bankruptcy in the 1860s , extending it into tinplate in Monmouthshire , carrying through several amalgamations , and turning it into a public company in 1902 . |
| 10 | The Tory party is often an amiable shambles , but the Maastricht process is turning it into a neurotic press gang . |
| 11 | ‘ Tell him Edward 's turning it into a conservation area for endangered species . |
| 12 | I mean many people wrote disparagingly about your attempt , your nerve in taking on a gem of the New York stage and turning it into a British directed movie . |
| 13 | At present the beer is bottom-fermenting in the lager style but Bitburger are considering turning it into a top-fermenting beer . |
| 14 | Herrhausen and Mr Reuter wanted to accelerate Daimler 's hesitant steps towards diversification , turning it into a huge manufacturing conglomerate capable of leading German industry to a high-tech future and big enough to compete with the giants of American and Japanese industry . |
| 15 | With no qualifications and precious little experience , she has taken on the job of Princess of Wales and is turning it into a significant career — and at the same time has brought up two small boys . |
| 16 | In this way Ulthuan drains magic out of the known world and prevents the tide of magic overwhelming everything and turning it into a seething realm of Chaos . |
| 17 | The Schwarzlose could also be fired from a monopod , turning it into a light machine-gun . |
| 18 | Because making the material itself is a lot harder than turning it into a rudimentary bomb , it is the tight control of plutonium and uranium that has until now restricted the spread of nuclear weapons . |
| 19 | Like the Tubwell torrentor it had a disconcerting habit of flooding the road and turning it into a muddy cesspool . |
| 20 | " And I would so enjoy turning it into the best school of its kind in Frizingley . |
| 21 | It vapourized Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands , turning it into the many-coloured mushroom cloud , 25 miles high and 100 miles wide , which became the symbol of anxiety for mankind . |
| 22 | In practice the effect is to dissolve the psychic into the social , and reify the social , turning it into an inert structural process . |
| 23 | The Plant committee was expected to report to the Labour Party conference in the autumn , but Mr Kinnock denied that turning it into an official government commission was a delaying tactic . |
| 24 | Rattle 's apparent desire ( masterfully achieved ) is to shape the piece into a convincing , cogently-argued structure , almost turning it into an extended ‘ symphonic ’ rather than ‘ choreographic ’ poem in the process . |