Example sentences of "[noun] turned [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the other animals turned tail at once . |
| 2 | The bomber turned informer and tipped off police . |
| 3 | Mr Martin Kemp , the musician turned schauspieler , can understand the ‘ high ’ of serial killers having experienced those ‘ adrenalines ’ ; and Ms Roseanne Barr , the person of size , would not ‘ mind the odd nude scene ’ of herself . |
| 4 | UK systems integrator turned software developer Protocol Solutions Ltd , Fareham , Hampshire , has set up Protocol Graphics Ltd to market ProLink , its own MS-DOS-to-Unix emulation product . |
| 5 | I scoffed at such nonsense , and leapt up the beach , lanyard in hand , only to fall flat in the surf , as the waves turned sand from firm to quick . |
| 6 | To club hipsters , he 's an embarrassment , a once-credible DJ turned uncool fool . |
| 7 | The priest turned turtle and dipped in the water . |
| 8 | A Norfolk farmworker turned trade unionist writes proudly of how he took in his own mother and his mother-in-law in turn ‘ without receiving a penny from anyone … |
| 9 | • SCOTLAND — Bill McLaren talks to Alan Watt , lock turned tighthead prop • Scottish Notes with Bill McMurtrie |
| 10 | It has a stand of four baluster-style turned legs joined by stretchers in the usual English fashion . |
| 11 | Mr Pavlychko , a poet turned politician , knows enough of both trades to leave that answer up in the air . |
| 12 | NICK FALDO turned golf 's showdown of the year into a calypso carnival before hitting the wrong note in the £1.8 million Johnnie Walker World Championship here yesterday . |
| 13 | In Liz Hodgkinson 's Spiritual Healing ( Piatkus Books , £12.95 ) Don Copland , ex-engineer turned healer , says , ‘ I regard healing … as a kind of jump lead which enables people to start healing themselves ’ . |
| 14 | The squaw turned head and shoulder and looked at her . |
| 15 | A hunter turned safari operator , Oskar Koenig , describes a ceremony he calls the Festival of Love which he purports to have witnessed : ‘ One of the young men knelt by the cowhide near a hole in the ground , which , as I knew , was meant to resemble the vagina . |
| 16 | The shocking contrast between fitzAlan 's smile and the stark violence in his words turned Isabel 's legs to water . |
| 17 | Although some success had been achieved through its radical economic , social and political programme in the early period , suspicions of the links with more sinister movements in Europe and the development of anti-semitism and political violence turned public opinion against the fascist movement . |
| 18 | HEAVY metal fans turned Donington 's Monsters of Rock festival into one of the year 's biggest grossing gigs . |
| 19 | Nell Shipman was a Canadian actress turned script-writer , who in the 1920s started producing , directing and starring in her own films . |
| 20 | Catherine 's opinions about drugs are much firmer than those of another pop star her own age — Aussie actress turned singer Kylie Minogue . |
| 21 | But he revealed today he 'd never given up hope of signing the defender turned striker despite the breakdown of the original negotiations two months ago . |
| 22 | The author is a rare combination of mathematician turned art historian , an ideal combination for exploring this aspect of Turner 's career . |
| 23 | £2.2m Venables star bid turned partnership sour |
| 24 | In the Middle Ages it was generally accepted that women 's ears turned men on to the same extent as the more obvious feminine attributes ; that is why so may medieval headdresses ensured that women 's ears were discreetly covered . |
| 25 | The NPKA on March 2 appointed Anand Panyarachun , a former diplomat turned businessman , as interim Prime Minister . |
| 26 | ‘ Prime exposure , that 's the key benefit to any sport on television , and the presentation of a sport in a positive way , ’ said Alan Pascoe , athlete turned TV commentator who is chairman of the sport 's marketing agents . |
| 27 | In short , the government 's liberality turned universities into a powder-keg . |
| 28 | Dancing rebel Paul Mercurio adds a little Spanish sex to his stride , takes on the ballroom bosses and falls for frump turned dancehall diva Tara Morice , while the relentlessly zippy direction tries to match the hypermanic bump and hustle . |
| 29 | Shrewdly , in view of the trouble such ambitions were to cause her successors , the queen turned Bradley down . |
| 30 | With something as desirable as the Bölkow 207 , I did n't need a second offer , and on a thunderstorm-laden day ‘ TE turned finals onto Bourn 's Runway 19 to rendezvous with an eager air-tester and an equally impatient photographer . |