Example sentences of "to turn [art] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they did n't leave the room ; instead , Fiona and Fergus , still breathless with giggles , still chattering excitedly away , started to turn the furniture in the room upside down . |
| 2 | The High Authority met for the first time in the autumn of 1952 , and immediately set about trying to turn the principles of the Treaty of Paris into practical results . |
| 3 | He put down the candle and began to turn the pages of the book . |
| 4 | He slid his hands into the sleeves , and lifted it to turn the back to the light , and for a few minutes stood studying it closely . |
| 5 | Half a dozen guards chose that moment to turn the bend in the corridor . |
| 6 | Thereafter the accelerating rate of population growth coincided with the ending of the bounty of generally good harvests to turn the trend in the cost of living sharply upwards , while in most regions the increase in the labour force changed a labour market in which wages had generally held up for more than half a century . |
| 7 | It is possible , indeed , to turn the logic of the opponents of traditional regional policy and incentives , and of the proponents or a ‘ partnership ’ approach , on its head . |
| 8 | However , from our present perspective it is actually more pertinent to turn the question round the other way and ask : why is it that some people , despite having a strong genetic disposition for psychotic illness do not actually break down — or , even if they do , are partly protected from its more devastating effects ? |
| 9 | These people , Miss Schlegel , invented Disneyland and now want to turn the rest of the world into a theme park , too , by bribing ancient and civilised peoples to caper and prance for thuggish tourists . |
| 10 | To turn the knife in the wound , he had mentioned to her the name of a local pub that had refused her singing act . |
| 11 | This was the most spectacular humiliation suffered by any major European state during the seventeenth century ; and Louis did not hesitate to turn the knife in the wound . |
| 12 | Although he had n't sold a book in weeks he would happily sit at the counter engrossed in his beloved William Blake until it was time to turn the sign on the front door from ‘ Open ’ to ‘ Closed ’ . |
| 13 | As we saw earlier , Francis Bacon was able to turn the doctrine of the Fall to advantage : Science would help restore that dominion over nature lost to humanity through Adam 's sin . |
| 14 | It 's time to turn the tables on the management . |
| 15 | In a unique experiment , police called together members of the public for an all day seminar to discuss how to turn the tables on the burglar and thief . |
| 16 | The other traditional method is to turn the edges of the upper inwards and sew it to the midsole with Blake stitches . |
| 17 | ( A famous actor interviewed recently on the radio said that , when he had learned his part in a play , he did not just know the words he had to say but where the new paragraphs came and when he had to turn the page of the script . |
| 18 | On race nights Sharon and Martin spectate as PJ is videoed in action … but maybe someone ought to turn the lens on the LASMO lass herself . |
| 19 | He decided to turn the pressure on the Russian . |
| 20 | Instead of boldly breaking the charm and paying every man 's debts out of his property , the legislature attempted to turn the flank of the evil — to extort justice by persecution , to arm the creditor with powers of vexation instead of powers of sale , to satisfy his vindictiveness instead of his bill delivered . |
| 21 | Lenin wanted to use the conference to launch an international struggle to turn the war into the revolution . |
| 22 | Initially the target direction is sent to the phase sequence generator , which then produces phase control signals to turn the motor in the appropriate direction . |
| 23 | Remember my washing machine where I used to turn the handle at the top , heat it up with gas |
| 24 | She threaded up the machine with the right cotton for her curtains , arranged the material in the right position under the needle , and began to turn the handle of the machine . |
| 25 | It was decided overwhelmingly on June 20 to endorse the proposal to turn the conference into the founding congress of the new party . |
| 26 | The 1962 Second Declaration of Havana , with its call to turn the Andes into the Sierra Maestra of Latin America , counteracted the Euro-centrism of orthodox Communism . |
| 27 | Unable to pour out any abuse on such an august gentleman of the realm , Garvey could only bow respectfully and struggle to turn the pageant in the small yard of the mansion . |
| 28 | You women are all the same — a man just has to turn the corner of the street and the next thing , they 're all eyes and lips and tongue and sucking me ’ — he tripped , changed ‘ sucking him towards them . |
| 29 | Okay , right , the old water mill used to turn the stones in the wil mill really you could turn a generator . |
| 30 | Subsequent or alternative drinks had to be paid for at saloon-bar prices , so Clive managed to turn a profit on the evening . |