Example sentences of "turns to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hidden by her handmaids she is seen to blush , then turns to Actaeon and throws water in his face to blind him , to stop him seeing her naked , but that is not enough and she knows it is not enough , and soon he feels the horns growing on his forehead , dat sparso capiti vivacis cornus cervis , she caused to grow on his head the horns of the long-lived stag , as if the cost of seeing her naked had to be death , first metamorphosis then death . |
| 2 | On the one hand it makes no demands , he wrote , on the other it is the vitriol which corrodes everything with which it comes into contact , the Gorgon which turns to stone all who gaze upon it . |
| 3 | Raskolnikov turns to Sonya ; ‘ it was to her , Sonya , that he first went with his confession ; when he felt the need of a human being , he sought the human being in her ’ — which does indeed isolate for a moment , and emphasize , the mystic business of his alienation from the human family ; and for this moment the dross ( as it were ) of Sonya and of Raskolnikov is withheld ; the god in his humanity is looking for the god in hers . |
| 4 | Tennis : Durie 's brief dream turns to grim reality : Our Correspondent reports from Tokyo |
| 5 | WADDINGTON GALLERIES David Inshaw , the Staffordshire artist , still turns to the landscape as his main source of inspiration . |
| 6 | Think of executive cars and your mind turns to Ford , Vauxhall , Rover , BMW and perhaps Alfa and Lancia . |
| 7 | At top of rise , turn left on track which after 200 yds descends slightly then turns to left while in minor valley . |
| 8 | Finally Engels turns to the future of marriage and this is seen in terms of past evolution . |
| 9 | Eventually he turns to me smiling broadly . |
| 10 | He says something to Odd-Knut who turns to Tony . |
| 11 | VENTURE CAPITAL TURNS TO LEISURE |
| 12 | Venture capital turns to leisure |
| 13 | The crestfallen minister turns to his security men . |
| 14 | Night of terror turns to sorrow . |
| 15 | However , if one turns to the report 's tables , based on a growth in energy demand of between 1 and 2 per cent a year , it makes little difference whether gas or coal is the main fuel used to produce electricity . |
| 16 | Whenever talk turns to the government , the name of General Chavalit Yongchaiyudh comes up . |
| 17 | Unsurprisingly , dinner-table talk often turns to incorporation and limited liability . |
| 18 | Our coverage begins with the biggest thing he did , then turns to the biggest thing he left undone . |
| 19 | To find an issuer , he turns to his stable of MTNs , pre-arranged programmes under which a company can issue a variety of securities . |
| 20 | The point is important for , when he turns to personal identity , he insists on a distinction between two ideas which ‘ the ordinary way of speaking ’ runs together : the idea of ‘ man ’ , and the idea of ‘ person ’ . |
| 21 | Having explained judgements of distance , Berkeley turns to judgements of size . |
| 22 | He turns to the writer again : ‘ Abraham Lincoln went on a three-day drunk , and you know what he say when he wake up ? ’ |
| 23 | Sarah 's laughter turns to ruthless jealousy ( 21.8ff . ) . |
| 24 | When those hopes are dashed so soon , not only by a cruel foreign king , but by God 's own people , then the story turns to bleak tragedy , and becomes unbearable . |
| 25 | He turns to me and asks , ‘ Do you think they 'll have ‘ Mouldy Old Dough ’ by Lieutenant Pigeon ? ’ |
| 26 | One two three four five six not yet seven eight nine no no ten eleven twelve wait thirteen fourteen no ! fifteen not yet ! sixteen wait , wait , wait seventeen wait ! seventeen seventeen eighteen no use nineteen the stuff was Co-ming ! twent — I must have shouted out at that precise moment where exultation turns to disgust , the moment of spilling , of defilement . |
| 27 | WP Why is it that Czechoslovakia in its moments of crisis turns to scholars and writers ? |
| 28 | Travel : An offer you can refuse Mark Edmonds is all for haggling — but not when it turns to meanness |
| 29 | So ceases and turns to the thing |
| 30 | In response , however , Polycarp turns to the crowd in the amphitheatre and shouts out the words which the Proconsul has invited him to repeal as if they applied to the audience in the arena . |