Example sentences of "[verb] to turn [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He threatened to quit the hit series when writers tried to turn the gentle fireman-turned-'tec into a trendy , big-time operator involved with glamour girls and car chases : ‘ It just was n't on , ’ said Michael , back on Tuesday ( ITV , 9pm ) for a seventh Boon series , in a 13-week run . |
| 2 | I tried to turn the tap off but it still dripped . |
| 3 | You know , sometimes we walk in first thing in the morning and we start straightaway and we forget to turn the er closed to open . |
| 4 | Erm you occasionally forget it 's there which makes your conversation more natural but you also forget to turn the tape over |
| 5 | She too was a comparatively unknown artiste , and had not wished to turn the part down , since she feared she might never obtain another such opportunity . |
| 6 | You know when I want to turn a corner I 've got to stand on my toes and put my full weight on it to turn it . |
| 7 | Okay , if we wa if we want to turn a blind eye to it then that 's our business you know but er but when you 're , when you 're actually erm |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ The Conservatives want to turn the NHS into an industry , they say that will bring a better service to the consumer , but health should n't be an industry . ’ |
| 10 | For instance if you want to turn an object on a lathe erm and you go from one end of a shaft to the other , no matter , supposing you do it ten times , erm the machine will take that cut in exactly the same time . |
| 11 | It was the Malaysia Rubber Producers ' Research Association that helped to turn a concept known as ‘ base isolation ’ into reality at the University of California . |
| 12 | Robson 's mere presence against Oldham , Arsenal and Manchester City helped to turn the tide but Ferguson will be reluctant to disturb the impressive combination that beat Norwich . |
| 13 | The work of the NLRB and the publicity generated by civil liberties groups helped to turn the tide against industrial violence : |
| 14 | The British ‘ aristocracy of labour ’ , a stratum peculiar to that country where the class of independent small producers , shopkeepers , etc. , was relatively insignificant , as was the lower middle class of white-collar workers and minor bureaucrats , helped to turn the Liberal Party into a party with genuine mass appeal . |
| 15 | One faction , called the Democratic Platform , wants to turn the Communist party into a social democratic one . |
| 16 | The organisation wants to turn the disused school into a community centre offering religious , educational and leisure facilities . |
| 17 | ON ONE hand the Government is concerned about the vocational needs of children while on the other it wants to turn the clock back by insisting on paper and pencil testing instead of exploring what children really need . |
| 18 | Second , he proposed to turn the budget deficit of 7% of GDP in 1989 into a surplus of 2% of GDP . |
| 19 | I bent to turn the handle . |
| 20 | Use a watering can with a fine rose attached to apply a small amount of water evenly , until the surface starts to turn a uniform dark colour |
| 21 | The arrangement for raising the curtain was a matter of gear wheels designed to turn a rod to wind the metal mesh up onto it like a blind . |
| 22 | The antifeminist teaching of Repertoire de Science ( " the Body of Knowledge " ) in the Miroir de Mariage is similarly designed to turn the male character Franc Vouloir from contemplation of an earthly marriage to contemplation of a spiritual and divine one . |
| 23 | Although most of the adjustments Valuev proposed to the statutes of emancipation appeared to favour the gentry at the expense of the peasantry , one of them , the abolition of the peasant commune , might have had the opposite effect , and none of them was designed to turn the clock back . |
| 24 | I had forgotten to turn the carriage release back to N . |
| 25 | 4 Some reflex actions have to be learnt such as tying a shoe lace , chewing a pencil under stress and biting nails , but others come naturally from the moment we are born like digestion , breathing and jerking our big toe out of the bath water when we have forgotten to turn the cold tap on . |
| 26 | You will need to turn the ham over twice during carving to remove the maximum amount of meat . |
| 27 | You will need to turn the water off before disconnecting an existing basin. , either at the mains stopcock or at the valves on the pipes leading from the cold water system . |
| 28 | At every stride he has to turn a corner |
| 29 | Furthermore , she has to turn the eggs regularly to prevent the membranes within them from adhering to one another or to the shell . |
| 30 | 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 . |