Example sentences of "turned to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly the ground fell away before them and they came out on an open plateau with a floor of chequered marble , white on black , and a wide stone staircase with balustrades running down to the dried bed of an ornamental lake , which the mist turned to a bowl of milk . |
| 2 | JOHN Calton was a highly trained paratrooper who turned to a life of crime when he left the Army . |
| 3 | His mouth met hers and her shocked little gasp turned to a moan of hunger as she closed her eyes and kissed him at last , at last , and the brandy glass fell from her hands , shattering at their feet as her arms went around his neck , her mouth opening hungrily beneath his , her hands in his black hair , her body pressing against his as they clung together with intolerable necessity , unaware of the fragments of glass they trampled as Damian pressed her tighter , tighter until there was not an inch between their bodies . |
| 4 | Later , he turned to a variety of topics within logic and philosophy : modal and many-valued logic ; the logic of entailment and of questions ; the paradoxes ; the Polish school of reism ; action theory ; ontology ; and intentionality . |
| 5 | He opened the throttle as he turned left into Station Road The burble of the exhaust turned to a bellow as he raced down the long gentle slope towards Newtown . |
| 6 | But the Executioner 's attack scream turned to a shriek of agony , as Angel One seized his chance and launched his own surprise counter . |
| 7 | After a while the conversation turned to a friend 's plans to marry an American girl . |
| 8 | He turned to a door at the end of the room . |
| 9 | One man a few yards ahead of Dexter turned to a colleague and muttered , ‘ Bonking in the viewing room , eh ? ’ with a smutty chuckle . |
| 10 | The men chortled lewdly , as Estelle conjured up a trickle of pee that turned to a stream , and splashed into the tumbler like a miniature Niagara . |
| 11 | She turned to a glass case that held a number of boxes , and after a moment she said , ‘ No , I 'm afraid not . |
| 12 | Haig , though still hugely optimistic , reported later in a dispatch : ‘ The low-lying clayey soil , torn by shells and sodden by rain , turned to a succession of vast muddy pools . |
| 13 | Ceauşescu 's imagination turned to a project which could not be reversed by his successors , perhaps even by time itself . |
| 14 | That decision exposed the party 's bankruptcy : with no leader of stature to replace Mr Gandhi , they turned to a woman whose only political asset was her name , which , the party hoped , would bring in the sympathy vote that swung Rajiv into power after his mother 's death in 1984 . |
| 15 | He turned to the sentry . |
| 16 | Colonel David Stirling was so alarmed at what he believed was the dubious ability of the government to cope with a major strike affecting essential services that he turned to the possibility of forming a private force of military and other experts to assist the civil authorities . |
| 17 | Very thoughtfully , she turned to the telephone directory and looked up the name . |
| 18 | George 's face registered total disbelief and he turned to the telephone . |
| 19 | In desperation she picked up the paper and turned to the TV guide , but there was nothing scheduled for the early-evening spot apart from game shows . |
| 20 | He turned to the sister immediately : ‘ Close the ward , put the patient in the dayroom , gather all the staff to examine the patient 's locker , bed , bathroom , everything . ’ |
| 21 | Den was wiping the horse down with a cloth , and Nessie turned to the back of the yard and the standing pump . |
| 22 | He turned to the back seat as I swung under the arch and headed towards the Baños del Inca . |
| 23 | Whilst he was gone , Morse turned to the back of The Times and had filled in the whole of the bottom right-hand quarter of the crossword when Lewis returned two minutes later . |
| 24 | The Land of the Rising Sun turned to the land of the pouring rain for practice |
| 25 | In September 1960 , Campbell turned to the land record . |
| 26 | Bizarrely , Kylie turned to the influence of Ned Kelly for inspection . |
| 27 | When I 'd completed this process I turned to the mirror to look at myself for a last time . |
| 28 | Athelstan turned to the porter and tossed him a silver coin . |
| 29 | He turned to the keeper . |
| 30 | In 1951 , the Employment Fellowship ( formerly the Winter Distress League ) turned to the problem of keeping elderly people employed for as long as possible ( Employment Fellowship 1958 ) . |