Example sentences of "[vb base] turned to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just do n't know what was wrong with it , I 've work , Jason said Ja we a subject turned to what he wore in bed Ja and Jason said nothing , right but he said when it 's winter I wear my t-shirt and the pants and I cuddle up to my glow worm and we was all taking the mickey out of his glow worm , right so I 've come home and I read the paper and I 'll see glow worm in it , so I cut it out and give it to him and he stuck it up in the factory ! |
| 2 | So er I ca n't think of any other resorts I 've turned to . |
| 3 | Yeah , I mean we , we 've turned to thirty three this time because it 's a thirty three seater |
| 4 | Sorauf argues that fundamental changes in American society and politics rather than money made candidates and interest groups chief actors in the campaign finance they own turned to money as a result of their enhanced power . |
| 5 | Can not understand why smallest toenails have turned to quartz and wish they would become pink and smooth again . |
| 6 | Some have turned to religion , some to aesthetics . |
| 7 | Swordfish in the Georges Bank fishing grounds in the north west Atlantic Ocean have traditionally been taken by harpoon , but heavy fishing pressure has driven stocks to an all-time low , and some boats have turned to the use of drift-nets . |
| 8 | By this time they are approaching the borders of the Promised Land , and minds have turned to plans for invasion . |
| 9 | On these surfaces of glacial deposits , wind blown sand , peat and exposed bedrock successive waves of settlement have cleared , burned , grazed and cultivated , while others have turned to the seas for sustenance . |
| 10 | with the problem of hunger still in evidence in LDCs , some Third World governments have turned to other strategies to make the best use of resources and organise distribution , the onus being on distribution as much as production . |
| 11 | We have now turned almost full circle , but instead of employing someone to bait the swim , we have turned to a choice of mechanical devices which do a similar job . |
| 12 | When faced with this problem many authors have turned to the idea of ‘ local political cultures ’ , and have sought to explain political variation by reference to the existence of such ‘ cultures ’ ( Butler and Stokes , 1974 ; Johnston , 1986a ) . |
| 13 | As this is the book I have turned to first ever since the first edition appeared in 1974 , it 's gratifying to note that enough people agree to take the volume into its third edition with a fourth on the way . |
| 14 | Over the past few decades , the world 's demand for tin has fallen dramatically as packagers have reduced the thickness of the metal in tinplate or have turned to other materials for their containers , aluminium for instance . |
| 15 | All eyes have turned to the killing . |
| 16 | During the eighties , and now during the nineties , more and more stars , directors and behind-the-scenes boys , have turned to using cocaine , Angel Dust and other substances that are stronger , harder and more dangerous than marijuana . |
| 17 | Sadly , I know there is less work today and many have turned to drugs and drink . |
| 18 | So TV chiefs have turned to best-selling author Magdalen Nabb and the roly poly hero of her best selling Marshal books . |
| 19 | To find out if there is anything for them in this , many westerners have turned to ‘ The Art of War ’ ( Delta ; $1.95 ) by Sun Tzu , a 2,000-year-old best-seller . |
| 20 | ‘ To sustain healthy profit margins , multinational tobacco companies have turned to the Third World for new customers . |
| 21 | At that stage my priorities lay elsewhere , and to start playing with inhibitors seemed a diversion — when I have turned to using them , in the late eighties , as I shall describe in Chapter 10 , it was with rather more specific goals in mind . |
| 22 | Since reorganization , however , as we have seen , many of the new colleges of higher education have turned to the CNAA for validation , a process that has not been without its stresses and strains . |
| 23 | For Paul , that offering is made up of the lives of the many Gentiles who have turned to faith in God . |
| 24 | To do this , many companies have turned to ‘ networking ’ — a way of making contacts and pooling resources , knowledge and expertise — to help achieve success . |
| 25 | An increasing number of customers have turned to our Petroleum Engineering laboratories for scale prevention and optimisation services . |
| 26 | I do feel as if my hands have turned to jelly . |
| 27 | But for Balbir , as for the majority of Asian girls who have turned to prostitution , they still think that it is too degrading for them to consider going out on to the streets . |
| 28 | As the competitive edge to be gained from the physical product decreases , businesses have turned to the added value given by service to discriminate them from their competitors . |
| 29 | And a lot of people that I 've spoken to who 've had problems have turned to that alternative because they could see no other . |
| 30 | With few exceptions , they have turned to the TNCs for help in this daunting task . |