Example sentences of "turn [pers pn] into [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Managers had hoped that closer co-operation with the unions would make the committees a place for consultation , not turn them into a battleground . |
| 2 | We need the winds everywhere and we rely on people in Florida state to take these very sparse observations and turn them into a map which covers the whole surface of the tropical Pacific . |
| 3 | If they are broken up , turn them into a fish paste . |
| 4 | Back at the hacienda she abandoned the horses and fled to her room , leaving the others to see to them and turn them into the enclosures . |
| 5 | What , you , you , you turn them into the paddock ? |
| 6 | Turn me into a drone . |
| 7 | ‘ Turn him into a bunny rabbit . ’ |
| 8 | The two of them decide to buy a disused police station and turn it into a hotel . |
| 9 | He had installed her in a cottage on East Street and in the last few days before the wedding she had worked all hours to spicken the place up and turn it into a home for him . |
| 10 | After his unsuccessful campaign in 1988 to save Worthing 's charming Victorian lifeboat house and turn it into a lifeboat museum , Rob Blann wrote a book about the deed of 19th century local lifeboatmen , entitled ‘ A Town 's Pride ’ . |
| 11 | Or you can say : I 've researched it , I know the idea is right , I 'm going to go in big and I 'm going to have to sustain four or five years of losses before I turn it into a profit . |
| 12 | , ’ If the quotation is a common one you could acknowledge this fact but turn it into a plus , ‘ We all know the lovely poem by John Masefield , which you can never tire of hearing , ( Pause ) ‘ I must go down to the seas |
| 13 | It was at a meeting in February 1880 of Emma 's co-workers and tenants in south London that it was decided to take over the Victoria Theatre ( familiarly known as the Old Vic ) in the Waterloo Road , a hitherto dirty and drunken home for melodrama , and turn it into a coffee music hall for purified and teetotal entertainment . |
| 14 | To me that 's really annoying because all you do is destroy your song and you turn it into a guitarist 's track and I 've never really been interested in that . |
| 15 | In any case , it is usually easier to think in concrete terms than abstract ones ; easier to reify knowledge and turn it into a thing . |
| 16 | He was determined to resurrect the Liberalism of Cambridge , and turn it into a force among junior members of the university . |
| 17 | Or if it stands near a town , the political planners swarm into the house , turn it into a rabbit-warren of black-hatted officers of This and That , and the park becomes a site for some ‘ overspill ’ — a word as beastly as the thing it describes . |
| 18 | Plans to improve Elstead Village Hall and turn it into a community centre were outlined to a gathering of about 50 people at the annual general meeting in the hall . |
| 19 | Johnny Kirk , whose family had been connected with the ‘ mayor-making ’ over the years , said they did not want to make a big production of it or turn it into a tourist attraction ; they wanted to keep it as it was , ‘ a local event for local people ’ . |
| 20 | You may be right but some people seem to dramatize a commonplace misfortune and turn it into a cult . |
| 21 | They all think so , at any rate , though they turn it into a joke . |
| 22 | About 150 of those North European settlers chose to barricade themselves inside the Alamo Mission , turn it into a fortress , and to defy Santa Anna 's army of around 5,000 . |
| 23 | Redo the thread back on and turn it into a socket frequently used by the victim and get the hell out . |
| 24 | Both systems feature a comprehensive set of translation routines that will take virtually any PC format and turn it into a Macintosh one . |
| 25 | He described the heap of rubble from which it and the rest of the building had risen and how he and the owner , who came up for weekends , had taken eight years to finish it and turn it into the Mirimar which we now perceived it to be . |
| 26 | Turn it into the sort of jangled pile of metal the Tate Gallery would be glad to make an offer for . |
| 27 | This may all seem a bit of an unnecessary fuss , but it 's a small price to pay in time and trouble and money in order to save the marriage and turn it into an asset rather than a liability . |
| 28 | There were plans to revive it and turn it into an Ulster Loyalist pressure group when a leading member , Archibald Whitmore , an ex-member of the Ulster Volunteer Force , announced to influential people at the Bath Club that he planned to develop the BF in Ireland along the same lines as the movement in 1914 . |
| 29 | is turn it into an office . |
| 30 | Maybe they simply see the ark as a visible guarantee of God 's presence and of victory , but that understanding of it is no better , for then they turn it into an idol , ascribe to it magical powers , and leave us asking why they did not take it into battle in the first place . |